BBOWT Get involved in nature with BBOWT closed for work). Stacey Hewitt organises Thursday of each month throughout the This is an excellent month to to visit your conservation sessions here on the last local Wildlife Trust reserves and join in one Thursday in the month – contact her on of our friendly conservation work parties, staceyhewitt@ bbowt.org.uk. walks or other events. Bacombe Hill is a precious area of chalk The marshy fen, extensive reed beds and grassland, scrub and woodland leading woodland surrounding Weston Turville up towards Coombe Hill from just beyond Reservoir create a winter wildfowl Wendover station. Whatever the season, wonderland with coot, teal, shoveler and you can enjoy superb views over Aylesbury tufted duck and even the occasional bittern. Vale and watch red kites soar above the Great crested grebes can now be seen doing hillside. Long ago this site held importance their remarkable spring courtship display for Bronze Age settlers and you can still with much posturing and head shaking. As see the traces of two barrows. In summer well as the reeds, important plants include Bacombe Hill is noted for its pyramidal, hundreds of spring-flowering early marsh- chalk, fragrant and bee orchids and for orchids, followed in summer by lesser the chalkhill blue butterfly. Within the reedmace, purple-loosestrife, gipsywort, open chalk grassland you can also find clustered bellflower and carpets of wild water mint and yellow iris. thyme, both indicative of long-established Access is from the Worlds End Lane layby chalk grassland. Steve Keene (steve_ where a footpath takes you across the dam keene@btinternet.com) will be leading and round the east side of the reserve a conservation session here at 10am on (the west side path may be temporarily Thursday 12 March and then on the second
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Other BBOWT events to enjoy at College Lake include ‘Nature Tots’ on 10 and 12 March, craft sessions on 6, 12 and 14 March and an early spring walk with Laurence Kidd on Sunday 15 March. In addition, at Dancersend Reserve Mick Jones will talk on ‘Conservation in Action’ on Thursday 26 March, then lead a walk ‘Looking for Signs of Spring’ on Sunday 29 March. ‘Testing the Water’- how conservationists try to ensure good water quality in local streams - is our talk at Great Missenden Memorial Centre on Tuesday 17 March at 7.45pm, admission £4. Please go online at www.bbowt.org.uk/ whats-on for more details including booking arrangements. We are an active and friendly group and welcome all who would like to join in our activities. Richard Birch, BBOWT Chilterns Group, richardbirch60@yahoo.com
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