Event Name: BOTANICAL SURVEY
Date: 02-05-2010
Notes from event:
Mike Poulton from the Sutton Park Study Group will be carrying a Botanical Survey of Hill Hook Local Nature Reserve.
Mike Poulton also carried out a similar survey back in 2006, so we can compare the results.
We would like to record our thanks to Mike Poulton for agreeing to do the Botanical Survey for us.
PLease see new's for the update of the event.
Event Name: DAWN CHORUS
Date: 02-05-2010
Notes from event:
This years Dawn Chorus at Hill Hook Local Nature Reserve is on Sunday May 2nd 2010.
Tony Sames from The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country is leading the event along with our own Richard Clinton.
We are planning to meet at the bridge by the dam at 4.30am, and to be back to the bridge at 5.30am, before walking over to the area between Hill Hook Road and Blake Street.
We have asked Aston Wood Golf Club if we can walk around the golf course at 6.00pm. We plan to finish at about 8.00am with a cup of tea and a bacon sandwich.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
The event is sponsored by Four Oaks Ward and South Staffs Water.
Event Name: CONSERVATION WORKING PARTY
Date: 13-02-2010
Notes from event:
Paul Stephenson, Senior Ecologist from The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and The Black Country, is leading a Conservation working party which will include thinning and coppicing to create an open sunny wildlife ride in the woodland below the dam.
Review of the event
Paul Stephenson senior ecologist from The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and The Black Country along with 8 volunteers, spent a glorious sunny day undertaking key conservation work to to open up and establish the north to south ride between woodland below the Mill Pool Dam.
Volunteers coppiced trees and cleared ivy which created a more open sunny, sheltered conditions along the 15 metre wide ride. The more open conditions will be valuable for improved ground flora and vegetation which will help the butterflies, other invertebrates and birds. Logs and branches have been laid along both sides of the ride to form 'dead hedges' with the path meandering through.
The event was sponsored by Four Oaks Ward and South Staffs Water.