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Field Meetings 2012
All botanical meetings (except 19 May) will start at 10 a.m. and finish at about 3.30 p.m. or when everybody has had enough. Please bring sandwiches and drinks. Walking will be limited to a couple of miles. You do not need to be member of the BSBI or anything else to come along. You can be a beginner or an expert, and just interested in identifying and finding plants. Please bring field guides and a lens if you have one. If you want any more information ring us on 01827-712455 or e mail johnwalton46@tiscali.co.uk.
Saturday 28 April: Hampton in Arden. Leader: David Porter. Meet in the parking spaces at end of Marsh Lane (left opposite the church in the village coming from the A452). SP212802. We will visit the Packhorse Bridge area first and then investigate the woodland behind the Leisure Centre after lunch. Targets: Crosswort, Glabrous Whitlow-grass, Wood Club-rush.
Thursday 3 May: Whichford Wood. Joint Meeting with HBA at Warwick Museum. Whichford is an ancient limestone woodland, with plenty to offer. From Shipston take the A4300 south towards Oxford. After Little Wolford Heath (woodland) on your left, turn left (Hack Lane) signed Pottery/Whichford and then straight on over the crossroads (after sharp left bend) towards Whichford village. Park carefully at lay-by/grassed verge on right-hand side of the Whichford road, about 1 mile further along the road. SP294343. Target: Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage (in flower).
Saturday 12 May: Draycote Meadows (WWT). Green-winged orchid is one of this year’s BSBI Threatened Plant Project species. Come and help us measure the population and identify all the associated species. Free tea and cake for anybody who refinds Moonwort. The reserve is 4 miles SW of Rugby just north of Draycote village. Turn off the B4453 south of the A45 interchange and the reserve is ½ mile down the lane. SP448706.
Saturday 19 May. Ufton Fields (WWT) Note 10.30 start. Leader: Brian Laney. (Joint Meeting with Leicestershire BSBI group). Park in the reserve car park off Ufton Field Lane, ½ mile south of Ufton village, SP378615. Targets: Man Orchid, Little Mouse-ear, Narrow-leaved Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Common Broomrape.
Tuesday 22 May: Brandon Wood. Leader: Jane Sells. (Joint Meeting with Leicestershire BSBI group). Meet at Brandon Marsh Nature Centre car park, Brandon Lane, CV3 3GW. SP386761. We will walk across to the wood. After lunch we will drive to another part of the site at about 1.30 p.m. There is a café for those who are fed up with eating sandwiches. Targets: Heath Dog Violet, Bird’s-foot, Common Milkwort.
Tuesday 29 May: Wappenbury Wood (WWT). Leader: Steven Falk. Park near the junction of Burnthurst Lane and Nun Wood Lane, approx 1 mile west of Princethorpe. SP382709. Targets: Slender St. John’s Wort, Bitter Vetch.
Thursday 7 June: Grove Hill (WWT). Leader: Gillian Nussey (warden). Grove Hill is 2½ miles southeast of Alcester on the Exhall to Ardens Grafton road. Turn off A46 into Croft Lane (to Temple Grafton), at the crossroads turn right and follow the road to the right into Little Britain. The reserve is on the right. SP112547. Targets: Long-stalked Crane’s-bill, Common Gromwell, Houndstongue.
Friday 15 June: Whittleford Park/Ensors Pool. Leader: Yvonne Everitt. This mixed site, the remains of a brickworks, has a very strong local conservation group who have invited us. Meet at the Stockingford Community Centre, Haunchwood Road, Nuneaton, CV10 8DY, SP339916, just opposite the end of Westbury Road. Please try not to be late as cars will be locked in the car park when we walk to the site. After lunch we will move to Ensor’s Pool. Parking for this is in Heath End road, opposite the very ornate reserve gate with the crayfish picture on it SP346906. Targets: Bee Orchid, Toothwort.
Saturday 23 June: DM Kineton. As last year numbers will be limited to a dozen participants. If you would like to come, e mail us or ring (details above) a.s.a.p. and the first twelve to reply will be put on the list and details will then be sent out to you later. We will start the day with a more comprehensive search of the grassland behind the Borrowpit Lake that was so productive last year and go to Graveground Coppice after lunch. Targets: Herb Paris, Pepper Saxifrage, Corn Parsley, orchids.
Friday 29 June: Ladywalk (WMBC reserve)/Lea Marston Quarry. From the A446 NE of Water Orton, turn eastwards (right if coming north) at the roundabout and pass through the National Freight Distribution Park. Go straight ahead over two roundabouts. The car park is at the far end of the road down a lane and through a gate. SP209915. For the quarry (1.30 p.m.) park in the car park on the Coton Road, between Coton Bridge and the A4097. SP211944. Targets; Marsh Helleborine, Pyramidal Orchid, sedges, Dittander, Common Meadow-rue, Salsify
Thursday 5 July: Middleton Lakes RSPB reserve. Leaders: Monika and John Walton. Middleton Lakes is on the A4091 south of Tamworth. Please park in the RSPB car park, not the Craft Centre one. (SP193982) In the morning we will be walking the meadow trail and examining a small wet area near the river, in the afternoon we will investigate the silt pool area to search for the elusive Marsh Stitchwort. Targets: Rough Mallow, Smith’s Pepperwort, sedges, Grass Vetchling, Blue-eyed Grass, Goat’s Rue.
Autumn walks (full details will follow later)
- Sunday 29 July: Cawston Greenway
- Sunday 5 August: Walton Estate
- Friday 10 August: Weston and Waverley Woods
- Thursday 23 August: Bickenhill Plantation
- Sunday 2 September: Middleton Lakes (North End)
- Sunday 16 September: Hampton Wood
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