| 5th January | Bray Pit |
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| This is the BBOWT reserve, beyond the sailing lake, where Martin is the volunteer warden.
We will be making scallops and cutting back small trees to increase the area of meadow on the reserve. Drive down Monkey Island Lane off the A308, fork left towards the Bray Lake Watersports. Park just beyond Bray Lake Watersports – Martin is going to try to get a key for the gate and I’ll let you know if you can park any closer to the reserve. Don’t try following satnav to Bray Lake Watersports as it might take you to Bray village. It could be a wet day on Sunday all round. The forecast is for rain – no surprise there. The lake is high and the ground will be wet. We won’t be working in the lake but if you have wellies it might be worth bringing them. Map, OS SU909786 |
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| 19th January | Braywick, Maidenhead |
| Fruit Hedge Planting
Braywick Nature Centre is off Hibbert Road near the Braywick roundabout. Map, OS SU895796, post code SL6 1UU |
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| 2nd February | Bray Pit, Maidenhead CANCELLED due to water |
| This is the BBOWT reserve, beyond the sailing lake, where Martin is the volunteer warden.
Drive down Monkey Island Lane off the A308, fork left towards the Bray Lake Watersports. Park just beyond Bray Lake Watersports – Martin is going to try to get a key for the gate and I’ll let you know if you can park any closer to the reserve. Don’t try following satnav to Bray Lake Watersports as it might take you to Bray village. Map, OS SU909786 |
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| 16th February | Braywick, Maidenhead |
| Jason has asked us to craft a ‘dead hedge’ habitat feature in the woods at Braywick. It would mean staking out a hedge line with 2m high stakes using thinned branches and then weaving smaller cut branches and brash from the thinning work to make a wattle style fence on either side of the woodland path.
Braywick Nature Centre is off Hibbert Road near the Braywick roundabout. Map, OS SU895796, post code SL6 1UU |
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| 2nd March | Bisham Woods |
| Bisham Woods is a Woodlands Trust site, their only one in Berkshire. It is an ancient woodland and a SSSI. We will be working with the Site Manager helping to rescue a pond that is becoming choked with leaves and scrub, we will also be clearing some of the surrounding trees and creating a dead hedge along one side.
http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/wood/4424/bisham-woods Map, Street View, OS SU848842, Post Code SL7 1RY |
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| 16th March | Englemere Pond nr. Ascot |
| Englemere Pond Nature Reserve designated as a SSSI and consists of a shallow acidic lake and woodland offering a wide range of habitats that are important for wildlife. The site is located off Swinley road in Ascot. We will be working with the ranger to replace some of the old bridges along the footpaths using railway sleepers.
Park in signposted carpark Map, OS SU902684, Post Code SL5 8AJ |
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| 30th March | Cliveden |
| CANCELLED due to bad back | |
| 13th April | Burnham Beeches |
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| 27th April | Burnham Beeches |
| We’re going back to Burnham Beeches on Sunday to do some more scraping. We will be scraping patches of ground in the heathland area to encourage heather seeds already in the soil to germinate.
Meet at Victory Cross. Map, OS 955 850, post code SL2 3LB |
| 11th May | Ockwells Park |
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| On Sunday we are going to Ockwells Park in Maidenhead to do some tree care (presumably to the trees that we planted last year).
Be prepared – it could be wet and muddy Map, OS SU880790, post code SL6 3AA |
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| 25th May | Ockwells Park |
| We weeded about half the trees at Ockwells Park when we were there on May 11th. This Sunday, May 25th, we are returning to finish the job.
Map, OS SU880790, post code SL6 3AA |
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| 8th June | School Hill, Bracknell Forest Borough Council |
| Task possibily will be putting in a gate
Map, OS SU831622, post code GU47 8LD |
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| 22nd June | Braywick Park, Maidenhead |
| Hemlock bash
Braywick Nature Centre is off Hibbert Road near the Braywick roundabout. Map, OS SU895796, post code SL6 1UU |
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| 6th July | No task |
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| 20th July | No task |
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| 3rd August | Bracknell Forest Borough Council |
| We will be working at Peacock’s Meadow, Bracknell where we’ll be putting in some new wooden kissing gates. We may also do some other work around the site.
Meet at Peacock Farm (pub/restaurant) car park of Peacock Lane initially. If it’s busy we may need to move to the country park car park off Swift Fields within Jennett’s Park and walk down To Peacock Meadow. Any of you who have travelled by BBOWT minibus to Wildmoor Heath have gone past the site. Peacock Farm Swift Fields |
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| 17th August | Burnham Beeches CANCELLED |
| Doing some footpath work
Meet at Victory Cross. Map, OS 955 850, post code SL2 3LB |
| 31st August | Bisham Woods |
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| Further work on the pond we were at last time. More clearance around, getting some of the debris out of the pond – chromes & wellies (don’t think waders required), some ride clearance – on the other side of the path from the pond going in about 6 metres and dragging the cut stuff into the wood. There were near the pond some hazel stools we coppiced last time and he would like some brash put over these as they have been nibbled (he reckons rabbits rather than deer). Paul is putting some notices up so there maybe some of his volunteers as well, he should be out – he is trying to develop his team. Hence same instructions for meeting etc
Bisham Woods is a Woodlands Trust site, their only one in Berkshire. It is an ancient woodland and a SSSI Map, Street View, OS SU848842, Post Code SL7 1RY |
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| 14th September | Snaprails Park, Bracknell |
| Woodlands understory management
Parking is available on the surrounding streets, with a small lay-by at the end of Evenlode Way. The nearest main car park is at Sandhurst Memorial Park, located off Yorktown Road, GU47 9BJ. http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/snaprailspark Map, SU844619, Post Code GU47 9RW |
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| 28th September | Englemere Pond nr. Ascot |
| Englemere Pond Nature Reserve designated as a SSSI and consists of a shallow acidic lake and woodland offering a wide range of habitats that are important for wildlife. The site is located off Swinley road in Ascot. We will be working with Rob Soloman
Park in signposted carpark off the B3017 Map, OS SU902684, Post Code SL5 8AJ |
| 12th October | Bisham Woods |
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| Task to be decided
Bisham Woods is a Woodlands Trust site, their only one in Berkshire. It is an ancient woodland and a SSSI Map, Street View, OS SU848842, Post Code SL7 1RY |
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| 26th October | Burnham Beeches |
| Task to be decided. Meet at Victory Cross.
Burnham Beeches is an area of 220 hectares (540 acres) of ancient woodland. It is managed by the City of London Corporation since it purchased it in 1879 Map, OS 955 850, post code SL2 3LB |
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| 9th November | Braywick |
| Working on the pond
Braywick Nature Centre is off Hibbert Road near the Braywick roundabout. Map, Street View, OS SU895796, post code SL6 1UU |
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| 23rd November | Bisham Woods |
| Task to be decided
Bisham Woods is a Woodlands Trust site, their only one in Berkshire. It is an ancient woodland and a SSSI http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/wood/4424/bisham-woods Map, Street View, OS SU848842, Post Code SL7 1RY |
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| 7th December | Beedon Drive |
| Skateboarding and Coppicing & Tree-thinning
Beedon Drive is an open space that provides a skateboarding facility in the Great Hollands area and includes a quarter-pipe, funbox and a grind rail Map, OS SU850673, Post Code RG12 8GS |
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| 21th December | Braywick Nature Centre |
| Tree thinning.
Braywick Nature Centre is off Hibbert Road near the Braywick roundabout. Map, Street View, OS SU895796, post code SL6 1UU |