Worcestershire Recorders field recording days 2010
Author - various
All photographs ©Harry Green
See records (tables):
- Bockleton Study Centre - Records
- Lower Moor Meadows - Records
- Randan Meadows and Randan Wood - Records
Most recording was on the date indicated (below). A few people visited on the following day as they were unable to attend on the main day. These records are included.
Three sites were visited as follows:
Lower Moor Meadows, central grid ref SO974466, Saturday 5th June 2010. By kind permission of the Vale Landscape Heritage Trust. This series of meadows lie on the flood plain of the River Avon and are managed as grazed wet meadows although they are quite dry in summer despite an extensive scrape with shallow water and mud. They lie between the Lench Ditch and the River Avon. There are many pollarded willows along the ditch. The river bank is high and steep but bordered within the channel by a narrow shelf covered with emergent vegetation. For a further description see notes by Bert Reid preceding the flora lists.
Bockleton Study Centre, near Tenbury Wells. Central grid ref house and grounds SO576622, adjacent Swingley Pool SO5866619, Saturday 10th July 2010. Both sites visited. All the records for both are combined in the list. More details are recorded on the Worcestershire Biological Records Centre database. Bockleton Study Centre is run by Birmingham City Council and provides outdoor and environmental activities for groups. We visited by kind permission of Andrew Taylor, Centre Principal, and we are most grateful of the kind welcome and help given to us by him and his staff. The Study Centre comprises a large house and extensive openly wooded grounds and gardens (for more details see http://www.bockleton.bham.org.uk/). Swingley Pool is surrounded by trees and surrounded by fields. For a further description see notes by Bert Reid preceding the flora lists.
Randan Meadows central grid ref SO916727 and Randan Wood SO919728 Saturday 7th August 2010. By kind permission of Worcestershire Wildlife Trust. Randan Wood is the first reserve managed by the Trust and formally the home of the late Fred Fincher, a great Worcestershire naturalist. Randan Meadows is a newly created reserve comprising two small meadows rich in ant hills. It is bordered by ancient woodland and contains a fine ancient oak. For a further description see notes by Bert Reid preceding the flora lists.
Recorders
Lower Moor Medaows 25 booked, 19 attended
Bockleton Study Centre 22 booked, 13 attended
Randan Meadows and Wood 23 booked, 18 attended.
The lists that follow contain all the records submitted to the WBRC by October 2010. (Flora records are listed separately) Doubtless more records will be submitted at a later date. If you attended one of these Field Days and have note for a species you recorded which does not appear in the lists please send your records in to records@wbrc.org.uk . The aim of these meetings is to provide a snapshot of species at the site on the day and these lists may be more of more value in 100 years than now!
Recorders names and initials used in the tables
| Mike Averill | MA |
| Bert Reid | AWR |
| Alan Brown | AB |
| David Barnett | DB |
| Denzil Devos | DD |
| Gary Farmer | GAF |
| Geoff Trevis | GHT |
| Harry Green | GHG |
| Jane & Dave Scott | JDS |
| John Meiklejohn | JWM |
| John Partridge | WJP |
| Mervyn Needham | MN |
| Mick Blythe | MEB |
| Rosemary Winnall | RAW |
| Mike Inskip | MI |
| Steve Davies | SD |
| Tony Simpson | AS |
| Alan Lawson | AL |
| Will Watson | WW |
| Brett Westwood | BW |
