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RUGBY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY www.rugbynaturalhistory.org.uk

PRESIDENT – Dr P Reeve

Newsletter No 251 October 2018

Contents this edition ~ Winter indoor meetings: programme to January ~Photographic competition ~Invitation to join in ~Membership renewal ~Summer field visit reports ~Data protection information

~Current committee members (with contact information) Appendices included: species lists for Hampton Wood and Meadow;

Neal Trust Butterfly Reserve; Brandon Marsh; Rutland Water/Egleton; Swift Valley Attached separately: photographic competition entry form; membership renewal form

Photos © Lyn Classey: Peter and Kay Reeve’s Pond Day – the gathering and our genial host

Autumn-spring programme If you haven’t already made a note in your diary (this year’s and the new one for 2019) of the interesting programme that Paul and Janice have organised for Thursday evening indoor meetings, please don’t forget to do it soon so that you don’t miss out. Here’s a reminder of the dates from October to January.

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2018-19 October 11 Jan Clemons (WART), Amphibians and Reptiles in Warwickshire October 25 John and Val Roberts, Astonishing Fungi November 8 Steve Brookes, Conservation of Lear’s Macaw in Brazil November 22 Matthew Merritt, Birds and Wildlife of the Falkland Islands December 6 Photographic competition (with raffle and buffet) – see below January 10 Tricia Scott (Warwickshire Bat Group), Ecology and Conservation UK of Bats January 24 Scott Hackett, Temple Balsall and Cuttle Pool Nature Reserve

Photographic competition In a separate attachment to the email bringing this newsletter you’ll find the entry form for this year’s society photographic competition, which will take place on Thursday 6 December. The categories, as last year, will be vertebrates, invertebrates, and flora or fungi. There will be a (small) cash prize for the winner of each section and the overall winner (chosen from category winners) will hold the society’s trophy for a year. Last year’s judging procedure, without an invited guest expert, was so popular with members that this year’s winners will again be decided by the vote of members present on the night. Will this affect the judging criteria used? Who knows?! Entries must be with Joan Sherratt by Thursday 8 November – quite soon, so don’t delay deciding on your star photos. Presentation of the entries will, as usual, be followed by a buffet and a raffle will be held. Prizes for this would be welcomed – if we receive too many for the evening, some will be held over for the raffle at the annual dinner in March.

You could also... Talk to someone on the committee about what taking on a role would involve. Even if you don’t fancy the (more apparent than real) formality of a committee post, there are all sorts of relatively small things to do. Take a turn on the tea rota, perhaps? Just volunteer to the chairman and there’ll be an old hand to show you the ropes. Would you like to be the society’s press or public communicator, for another example? This would involve getting our meetings into local listings or perhaps on a platform such as Eventbrite (There’s a hyperlink there for the IT reader - presumably of no use to paper-only readers.). Perhaps you could submit the odd press report on our meetings to the local newspapers. Or are you (or could you be) a Facebook user? It is reported by Statista that the biggest age group of users is 25-44 years. Could this make a difference to the society’s membership? At the moment we can only speculate, but if we had a “Facebooker” we could see the evidence. Send in a report on any society meeting you attend. It can be as formal or informal, detailed or brief as you like. Just let Jan Tolley-Hodges know that you plan to do this, so that we don’t have an overlap, then email your notes to the editor by the deadline for the next edition. Photographs are welcome, too (no promises to use them all...). Many thanks to Lyn Classey for those in this edition (as well as the editor’s usual thanks for distributing the newsletter).

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Membership renewal To do any of that you do, of course, have to be a member of the society (though guests are always welcome at our indoor meetings for a nominal fee). Attached to the email bringing this newsletter is the renewal form for 2019. Please note that current memberships run out at the end of December. This time we’d strongly encourage you to set up a bank direct debit for this purpose. This would not only save a whole lot of time and hassle for the treasurer but would also save you the effort of remembering each year....

Summer field visit reports Thanks to everyone who has sent in observations on the latter part of the summer field visit season: Janice Tolley-Hodges; Biddy Allen; Tim Newton and Paul Hodges. You’ll see from some of the reports that Jan and Paul negotiated access to a number of reserves that aren’t open to the general public, which is greatly appreciated, not just by those who attended. Hampton Wood and Meadow On Saturday 7 April a group went to this Warwickshire Wildlife Trust (WWT) reserve near Sherborne (normally WWT members only). It comprises an ancient woodland and meadow lying along the River Avon. Apologies to Paul Hodges for missing his species list (Appendix 1) from the July newsletter –the editor’s in-box was overflowing. Combrook to Oxhouse Farm Here’s some of what the Banbury Ornithological Society (BOS) website says about this reserve, which is usually accessible only to BOS members, but which RNHS members visited on Saturday 21 July. “The reserve managed by the BOS covers approximately 16 ha which is surrounded by a further 18 ha of sympathetically managed arable land also owned by the Neal Trust.

“The Neal Trust Reserve is the newest BOS reserve and comprises most of the land of high conservation value at Oxhouse Farm, Combrook in Warwickshire. Bordered on one side by the River Dene, the reserve is a mosaic of woodland and open grassland.

“There is an SSSI, 1.6 ha in area, which is excellent for butterflies in July and August and is the only breeding site for Dark Green Fritillary in Warwickshire.”

Long-standing members of WWT might remember this as part of the old Oxhouse Farm Nature Reserve formerly run by Mary and Jack Neal. (Mary was 94 in 2005 when RNHS last visited.) Paul’s species list for the SSSI (including 37 flora and 16 aves, as well as the target group and others) is in Appendix 2. Moth morning at Roy and Biddy Allen's Fourteen members had a fabulous blue sky morning on Friday 6 July looking at and trying to identify hundreds of moths (due to the warm night) from moth traps belonging to Roy and Biddy Allen, David and Sue Knapp, Graham Robson and Paul and Janice Hodges. Some of the identified ones are listed below. Following is the account of the moth morning. A really good morning - we enjoyed it.

BA (Editor’s confession: for other moth novices like me, there really is one called “Uncertain”....)

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Moths: 6 July 2018

Angle Shades Beautiful Hook-tip Bright-line Brown-eye Brimstone Brown-line Bright-eye Buff Arches Buff Ermine Buff Footman Buff Tip Burnished Brass Cabbage Clay Cloaked Minor Clouded Border Common Footman Common Rustic Coronet Dark Arches Dingy Footman Dot Double Square-spot Drinker Dunbar

Dusky Sallow Early Thorn Elephant Hawkmoth Flame Flame Shoulder Garden Carpet Ghost Moth (female) Green Pug Grey Dagger Heart and Dart Heart and Club Iron Prominent Large Emerald Large Yellow Underwing Large Twin-spot Carpet Leopard Moth Lesser Yellow Underwing Light Arches Lunar-spotted Pinion Marbled Minor Peach Blossom Phoenix Plain Golden Y

Polar Grey Poplar Hawkmoth Riband Wave Round-winged Muslin Rustic Scarce Footman Short-cloaked Moth Silver Y Single-dotted Wave Small Angle Shades Small Blood-vein Small Fan-footed Wave Smoky Wainscot Snout Spectacle Swallowtail Swallow Prominent Sycamore Tawny Marbled Minor Uncertain V Pug Vines Rustic Wainscot Willow Beauty

A few micro-moths were identified - those with English names were Mother of Pearl and Small Magpie. There were plenty of unidentified micro-moths plus a few unidentified beetles/bugs etc.

Brandon Marsh The highlight of the trip on Saturday 4 August was a sawfly that was identified by our entomologist, Tim Newton. Cimbex conatus is a hornet mimic, which proved to be a really exciting record - a first for Brandon Marsh and probably for Warwickshire. See below for a photograph from the internet and Appendix 3 for further sightings. PH

Photo by Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium (Cimbex luteus, Mochamps, Belgium) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons 09-10-18 The species citation above is noted by Tim as a misidentification, which occurs often in the case of cimbex conatus, which is what the pictured creature really is. Your editor is, alas, also more than a novice in the case of sawflies.

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Crick Millennium Wood Pocket Park Eight RNHS members ventured in to Northamptonshire and surveyed the Crick Jubilee Wood, including the abutting sites of Crick Millennium Wood, Crack’s Hill and the Grand Union Canal. It was a delightful wildlife site, just a twenty minute drive from Rugby. Saturday 25 August was a sunny day and swallows and house martins were flying around low collecting insects. We noted in the Millennium Wood there were many young oak trees with a noticeable amount of misshapen acorns (knopper gall) due to gall wasp infestations. There were a remarkable amount of speckled wood butterflies on the wing duelling. A common darter dragonfly was seen. A couple of notable plants were skull cap and yellow water lily. In the Jubilee Wood, there was an abundance of fruit such as sloe, apple (dessert, cooking and crab), pear and plum. We looked at the pond dipping station where there were reed mace, reed and a lovely small orange coloured balsam. The eight intrepid members climbed to the top of Crack’s Hill. From there we could appreciate why the Romans used this as a look-out point as we could see for miles and had good views of the A5 Roman road Watling Street. JT-H Rutland Water Alas, the hoped-for minibus trip did not take place because too few people signed up for it. However, on Thursday 6 September eight members attended this more distant venue and were rewarded with a good range of birds, dragonflies and damselflies, butterflies, trees and shrubs, a range of flowering plants, grasses, sedges and rushes. Highlights included migratory waders like greenshank, black tailed godwit, ruffs and reeves, raptors like marsh harrier and red kite, and both great white and little egret. Appendix 4 gives the full species list. PH Swift Valley On Saturday 22 September five intrepid RNHS members braved the inclement weather conditions to see a range of flora, fauna and fungi at Rugby’s local nature reserve, which is managed by WWT for Rugby Borough Council. Highlights included European pear rust (uredinales:pucciniaceae-gymnosporangium sabinae/fuscum*) on pear tree leaves growing by the metal access gate to the field with ridge and furrow. (*See p 230 of the Field Studies Council’s AIDGAP guide: Redfern M and Shirley P [2011] British Plant Galls, 2nd ed. Preston Montford: Field Studies Council). Sightings are listed in Appendix 5. PH

Data protection (the General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR] refers) To comply with the data protection regulations which came into effect in May, your consent is required for the society to hold your personal information. Please see your membership 2019 application form for details.

Next newsletter This is due for publication in January 2019, so please email articles to the editor (Fern Hodges, see below) by Friday 4 January. As is now normal, appendices will be included only if your newsletter comes by email or (for those who still need a printed hard copy) if you let Lyn Classey know that you’d like to have them added. As always, ideas for future newsletter items would be welcome, so please do let me know about any you have (or just send the items in!). FH

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Committee members with specific roles CHAIRMAN Mr T Landless, 27 Spicer Place, Rugby VICE-CHAIRMAN Mr L Classey , 13 Orson Leys, Rugby HON SECRETARY Mrs W Classey, 13 Orson Leys, Rugby HON TREASURER Mr David Knapp, 44 Orson Leys, Rugby PROGRAMME SECRETARIES Mr P Hodges and Mrs J Tolley-Hodges 30 Rupert Brooke Road, Rugby NEWSLETTER EDITOR Miss Fern Hodges, jandflist@gmail.com

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Appendix 1 Species list for Hampton Wood and Meadow SSSI 7 April 2018 Compiled by Paul E Hodges CEnv, CMIEEM, PgDip, BSc(Hons), NVQ III, NEBSMC, C & G II

Birds

Chiff Chaffs – Phylloscopus colybita colybita (Singing & Seen) Willow Warblers – Phylloscopus trochilus (Singing & Seen) Blackcaps – Sylvia atricapilla (Singing & Seen) Great Spotted Woodpeckers – Dendrocopus major (Drumming & Alarm Calling) Green Woodpecker – Picus viridis (Calling) Song Thrushes – Turdus philomelos clarkei (Seen & Singing) Blackbirds –Turdus merula (Seen & Singing) Redwing – Turdus illiacus (Seen & Calling) Robin- Erithacus rubecula (Seen & Singing) Black Headed Gulls- Chroicocephalus ridibundus (Seen & Calling – Meadow –flooded areas) Lesser Black Backed Gulls- Larus fuscus graellsii & intermedius (Seen & Calling Meadow – Flooded Areas) Herring Gulls- Larus argentatus (Seen & Calling – Meadow – Flooded Areas)

Buzzards- Buteo buteo (Seen & Calling) Stock Doves- Columba oenas (Seen & calling) Chaffinches- Fringilla coelebs (Seen & Singing) Bullfinches- Pyrrhula pyrrhula (Seen & Singing & Calling) Carrion Crows- Corvus corone (Seen & Calling) Jackdaws- Corvus monedula (Seen & Calling) Eurasian Magpies- Pica pica (Seen & Calling) Eurasian Jays- Garrulus glandarius (Seen & Calling) Nuthatch- Sittia europeaus (Seen & Singing & Calling) Great Tits- Parus major (Seen & Singing & Calling) European Blue Tits- Cyanisties caeruleus (Seen & Singing & Calling). Coal Tits- (Parus) Periparus ater britannicus (Seen &Calling & Singing) Wrens- Troglodytes troglodytes (Seen & Calling & Singing) Dunnocks – Prunella modularis (Seen & Calling & Singing)

Mammals

Reeve’s Muntjac Deer – Muntiacus reevesi Roe Deer – Capreolus capreolus

Stoats – Mustela erminea

Flora

Ash –Fraxinus excelsior Oak- Quercus robur Silver Birches – Betula pendula Gorse- Ulex europaeus Hazel – Corylus avellana Elder- Sambucus nigra Wild Cherry – Prunus avium Blackthorn- Prunus spinose Hawthorn – Cratageus monogyna Holly – Ilex aquifolia Primroses- Primula vulgaris Wood Anemone- Anemone nemorosa Common Dog Violets- Viola riviniana Lesser Celendine – Ranunculus ficaria Yellow Archangel – Lamiastrum galeoblon

Wood Forget-me-nots- Myosotis sylvatica Lords & Ladies – Arum maculata Marsh Thistles- Cirscium palustris Ground Ivy- Glechoma hederacea Red Campion – Selene rubra Cow Parsley- Anthriscus sylvestris & Hogweed – Heracleum sphondylium Bluebells- Hyacinthoides non-scripta Dogs Mercury- Mercurialis perennis Pendulous Sedge- Carex pendula Herb Robert- Geranium roberticum Wood Avens- Geum sylvaticum Common Reeds- Phragmites communis Bullrush/Reedmace- Typha latifolia

Fungi

Jelly Ear – Auricularia auricular-judae Tripe Fungus – Auricularia mesenterica Birch Polypore – Piptoporus betulinus King Alfred’s Cakes- Daldinica concentrica Stereum hirsutum

Stereum gausapatum Phellinus pomaceus Bjerkandera adjusta Rigidoporus ulmarius Stump Puffballs- Lycoperdon pyriforme

Mosses: Wall Screw Moss; Common Feather Moss

Lichens: Xanthoria paretina Ferns: Hard Shield Ferns-

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Appendix 2 Species list for Neal Trust Butterfly Reserve SSSI Meadow (The Old Oxhouse Farm SSSI Meadow) 21 July 2018, 10am-1.30pm Compiled by Paul E Hodges CEnv, CMIEEM, PgDip, BSc(Hons), NVQ III, NEBSMC, C & G II

Butterflies

Dark Green Fritillaries-Argynnis aglaja x3 Marbled White Butterflies-Melanargia galathea x29 Meadow Browns- Maniola jurtina x 15 Gatekeepers- Pyronia tithonus x 4 Common Blue’s-Polyommatus Icarus x 25 Brown Argus- Aricia agestis x1

Green Veined White’s-Pieris napi x7 Large White’s- Pieris brassicae x 11 Essex Skipper’s- Thymelicus lineola x3 Large Skipper’s- Ochlodes Sylvanus x5 Small Skipper’s- Thymelicus sylvestris x2 Ringlet’s- Aphantopus hyperantus x2

Moths

Silver Y Moths-Autographa gamma Six Spotted Burnet Moths- Zygaena filipendulae

Flora

Crow Garlic/ Wild Garlic-Allium vineale in fruit (SP30601 50663) Woolly Thistles- Cirsium eriophorum Stemless/Dwarf Thistles- Cirsium acaule Greater Knapweeds- Centaurea scabiosa Common Knapweeds- Centaurea nigra Spiny Rest Harrow- Ononis repens Common Rest Harrow- Ononis spinosa Field Scabious- Knautia arvensis Small Scabious- Scabiosa columbaria Musk Mallows- Malva moschata Chicory- Cichorium intybus Mugwort- Artemisia vulgaris Pineapple Weed- Matricaria discoidea Common Ragwort- Senecio jacobaea Field Wood Rushes- Luzula campestris Common Centaury- Centaurium erythaea Brooklime- Veronica beccabunga Oxeye Daisies- Leucanthemum vulgare

Ladies Bedstraw- Galium verum Hedge Bedstraw- Galium mollugo Knotted Hedge-Parsley- Torilis nodosa Upright Hedge-Parsley- Torilis japonica Wild Carrots- Daucus carota ssp. carota Pepper Saxifrage- Silaum silaus Ribbed Mellilot- Melilotus officinalis Sharp Leaved Fluellen- Kickxia elatine Field Bindweed- Convolvulus arvensis Common Birds Foot Trefoil- Lotus corniculatus Meadow Barley- Hordeum secalinum Meadow Foxtail Grass- Alopecurus pratensis Crested Dogs Tail Grass- Cynosurus cristatus Meadow Foxtail Grass- Alopecurus pratensis Yellow Oat Grass- Trisetum flavescens Creeping Cinquefoil- Potentilla reptans Meadow Fescue Grass-Festuca pratensis Quaking Grass-Briza media Petty Spurge- Euphorbia peplus

Birds

Red Kites- Milvus milvus Buzzards- Buteo buteo Stock Doves- Columba oenas Swifts- Apus apus House Martins- Delichon urbica Swallows- Hirundo rustica Goldfinches- Carduelis carduelis Greenfinches- Carduelis chloris Bullfinches- Pyrrhula pyrrhula

Ravens- Covus corax Rooks- Corvus frugilegus Carrions Crows- Corvus corone Jackdaws- Corvus monedula Green Woodpeckers- Picus viridis Great Spotted Woodpecker- Dendrocopus major Blackcaps- Sylvia atricapilla

Bees and ants

White Tailed Bumblebees- Yellow Meadow Ants- Lasius flavius (Nests)

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Grasshoppers and bush crickets

Meadow Grasshopper- Field Grasshopper-

Common Green Grasshopper-

Dragonflies and damselflies

Brown Hawker- Southern Hawker-

Azure Damselfly- Common Blue Damselfly-

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Appendix 3 Species list for Brandon Marsh SSSI Nature Reserve 4 August 2018 10.00 am – 12.30 pm Compiled by Paul E Hodges CEnv, CMIEEM, PgDip, BSc(Hons), NVQ III, NEBSMC, C & G II

Sawfly: cimbex conatus - a hornet mimic, a first for Brandon Marsh and probably Warwickshire

Birds

Green Sandpipers-Tringa ochlurous Common Sandpiper-Actitis hypoleucos Redshank-Tringa tottanus Lapwings-Vanellus vanellus Snipe-Gallingo gallingo Kingfisher-Alcedo atthis Black Headed Gulls-Chroicocephalus ridibundus Lesser Black Backed Gulls-Larus fuscus graellsi

Tufted Ducks-Aythya fulgula Mallards-Anas platyrhnchos Teal-Anas crecca Gadwall-Anas strepta Reed Warblers-Acrocephalus scirpaceus Sedge Warblers-Acrocephalus schoenobaenus Common Reed Buntings-Emberiza schoeniclus Hobby-Falco subbuteo

Dragonflies and damselflies

Brown Hawker-Ashena gradis Migrant Hawker-Ashena mixta Southern Hawker-Ashena cyanea

Common Blue Damselflies-Enallagma cyathigerum Azure Damselflies-Coenagrion puella Blue Tailed Damselflies-Ischnura elegans

Butterflies

Speckled Woods-Pararge aegeria Common Blues-Polyommatus icarus

Holly Blue-Celastrina argiolus Large Whites-Pieris brassicae

Flora

Broad Leaved Helleborine-Epipactis helleborine - John Baldwin Hide Common Reeds-Phragmites australis Greater Pond Sedges-Carex riparia Gypsywort- Lycopus europaeus Skullcap- Scutellaria Reed Mace- Typha latifolia Purple Loosetrife- Water Mint-Mentha aquatica Betony- Stachys Wild Angelica- Angelica sylvestris Water Dock- Rumex hydrolapachum Brambles-Rubus fruticose agg. Yellow-Rattle-Rhinanthus minor Meadow Vetchling-Lathyrus pratensis

Soft Rushes-Juncus effusus Hard Rushes-Juncus Marsh Thistles- Cirsum palustre Welted Thistles-Carduus crispus Meadow Sweet-Filipendula ulmaria Bitter Sweet-Solanum dulcamira Alder- Alnus glutinosa Elder- Sambucus nigra Pedunculate Oak- Quercus robur Rowan- Sorbus acuparia Guelder Rose- Viburnum opulus Dog Roses- Rosa carnina White Dead Nettle-Lamium album Red Dead Nettles-Lamium purpureum

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Appendix 4 Species list: Rutland Water/Egleton Nature Reserve SSSI 6 September 2018, 10.30am-4.45pm Compiled by Paul E Hodges CEnv, CMIEEM, PgDip, BSc(Hons), NVQ III, NEBSMC, C & G II

Ornithological interest: waders and wild fowl

Greenshank-Tringa nebularia Redshank-Tringa totanus Green Sandpipers-Tringa ochropus Common Sandpipers-Actitis hypoleucos Curlew-Numenius arquata Ruff & Reeve-Philomachus pugnax Black Tailed Godwit-Limosa limosa Common Snipe-Gallingo gallingo Ringed Plover-Charadrius hiaticula Lapwings-Vanellus vanellus

Pintail-Anas acuta Gadwall-Anas strepera Teal-Anas crecca Mallards-Anas platyrhynchos Tufted-Aythya fuligula Pochards-Aythya ferina Egyptian Geese-Alopochen aegytiaca Greylag Geese-Anser anser Canada Geese-Branta canadensis Great Crested Grebes-Podiceps cristatus Little Grebes-Tachybaptus ruficolus

Ornithological interest: raptors and herons/egrets

Marsh Harriers(Western)-Circus aeruginosus Hobby-Falco subbuteo Kestrel-Falco tinnunculus Red Kite-Milvus milvus Buzzard-Buteo buteo

Grey Herons-Ardea cinerea Little Egrets-Egretta garzetta Great White Egret-Casmerodius albus

Ornithological interest: passerines

House Martins-Delichon urbica Swallows-Hirundo rustica Great Tits-Parus major Blue Tits-Cyanastites caeruleus Marsh Tit-Poecile palustris Reed Bunting-Emberiza schoeniclus European Greenfinches-Carduelis choloris European Goldfinches-Carduelis carduelis Linnets-Carduelis cannabina

Wood Pigeons-Columba palumbus Great Spotted Woodpecker-Dendrocopus major Green Woodpecker-Picus viridis Starlings- Sternus vulgaris Carrion Crows-Corvus corone Rooks-Corvus frugilegus (Western) Jackdaws-Corvus monedula Magpies-Pica pica

Dragonflies and damselflies

Southern Hawker Dragonfly- Migrant Hawker Dragonflies- Ruddy Darter Dragonflies- Common Darter Dragonflies-

Broad Bodied Chasers- Common Blue Damselflies- Azure Damselflies- Blue Tailed Damselflies-

Botanical interest: trees and shrubs

Crack Willow-Salix fragilis Sallow-Salix cinerea Black Poplar-Populus nigra var betufolia Hawthorn-Cratageus monogyna Blackthorn-Prunus spinose Wild Service Tree-Sorbus torminalis with Fruit Guelder Roses-Viburnum opulus Dog Roses- Rosa carnina

Spindle- Euonomus europeaus Hazel-Corylus avellana Field Maple- Acer campestre Elder-Sambucus nigra Silver Birches-Betula pendula White Willow-Salix alba Pedunculate Oak-Quercus robur Ash-Fraxinus excellsior

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Botanical interest: flowering plants

Musk Mallow-Malva moschata Common Mallow-Malva sylvestris Common Knapweed-Centaurea nigra Field Scabious-Knautia arvensis Devils Bit Scabious-Succisa pratensis Bristly Ox-tongue- Hogweed- Upright Hedge Parsley- Meadow Cranesbill-Geranium pratense Marsh Hawksbeard-Crepis paludosa Smooth Hawksbeard-Crepis capillaris

Herb Robert-Geranium roberticum Coltsfoot-Tussilago farfara Water Mint-Mentha aquatica Tansy-Tanacetum vilgare Hemp Agrimony-Eupatorium cannabinum Meadow Sweet-Filipendula ulmaria Hedge Bindweed-Convolvulus Yarrow-Achillea millefolium Ox-eye Daisies-Leucanthemum vulgare Marsh Sow Thistle-Sonchus palustris

Grasses, sedges and rushes

Common Reed-Phragmites austalis Meadow Foxtail Grass-Alopecurus pratensis Tufted Hair Grass-Deschampsia cespitosa

Soft Rushes-Juncus effusus Bulrushes-Typha latifolia Greater Pond Sedge-Carex riparia&Lesser Pond Sedges-Carex acutiformis

Butterflies

Speckled Woods-Pararge aegeria Large Whites-Pieris brassicae Green Veined Whites-Artogeia napi

Meadow Browns-Maniola jurtina Gatekeeper-Pyronia tithonus

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Appendix 5 Species list: Swift Valley Local Nature Reserve 22 September 2018, 1330-1530 hrs Compiled by Paul E Hodges CEnv, CMIEEM, PgDip, BSc(Hons), NVQ III, NEBSMC, C & G II

Flora

Pedunculate Oak Trees-Quercus robur Turkey Oak Trees-Quercus cerris Crack Willows- Salix fragilis Grey Poplars-Populus x canescens White Poplars-Populus alba Goat Willows-Salix caprea Grey Willow/Common Sallow-Salix cinera Hybrid Black Poplars-Populus x Canadensis nigra Hawthorns-Cratageus monogyna Blackthorns- Prunus spinose Hazels- Corylus avellana Hornbeams- Carpinus betulus Silver Birches- Betula pendula Guelder Roses- Viburnum Opulus Dogwood- Cornus sangiunea Elder- Sambucus nigra Field Maples-Acer campestre White Willows-Salix alba Musk Mallow-Malva moschata (Still in flower). Common Reeds-Phagmities australis Typha latifolia Branched Bur Reeds-Sparganium erectum Reed Sweet Grass- Brambles-Rubus fruticosa agg. Nettles-Urtica dioecea Welted Thistles-Cardus crispus (still in flower & producing seeds) Creeping Thistles-Cirsium arvense Spear Thistles-Cirsium vulgare

Broad Leaved Docks-Rumex Curled Docks-Rumex crispus Wood Docks- Rumex sanguineus Yarrow- Achillea millefolium (Still in flower) Goundsel- Seneco vulgaris Bristly Ox-tongue- Picris echiodes (Still in flower & Producing Seeds). Marsh Hawks-beard- Crepis paludosa Smooth Hawk’s-Beard-Crepis capillaris Autumn Hawkbit- Leontodon autumnalis Rough Hawkbit- Leontodon hispidus Greater Burdock-Arctium lappa Lesser Burdock-Arctium minus Knotgrass- Polygonum aviculare Scentless Mayweed-Tripleurospermum inodorum Pineapple Weed-Matricaria discoidea Meadowsweet-Filipendula ulmaria Fat Hen- Chenopodium album Shepherds Purse- Capsella bursa-pastoris Cow Parsley- Anthriscus sylvestris Hogweed- Heracleum sphondylium Upright Hedge Parsley- Torilis japonica Water Pepper- Persicaria hydropiper Broad Leaved Plantain/Greater Plantain-Plantago major Ribwort Plantain-Plantago lanceolate Betony-Stachys officinalis Seafheal- Prunella vulgaris Ground Ivy- Glechoma hederacea

Birds

Buzzard-Buteo buteo Nuthatches-Sitta europeaus Goldfinches- Carduelis carduelis

Blue Tits-Cyanistes caerulescens Great Tits-Parus major Long Tailed Tits-

Fungi

Fuzzy Polypore- Inonotus hispidus on Ash Dryads Saddle- Polyporus squamosus on Willow & Poplars

Ink caps- Coprinus atramentarius Fairy Ring Champignon- Marasmius oreodes