After lunch on Copthall Green, whilst searching a
ploughed field with binoculars, a male and female Wheatear
were seen. This was an unusual sight for early May.
Members also saw some chicks of Moorhen well away from
water near Woodredon Farm.
A walk through the Beech part of Epping Forest
produced very few birds and members remarked how quiet it
had been.
The following plants were recorded: Greater Stitchwort,
Common Chickweed, Lungwort, Ground Ivy, Red Campion, Figwort.
Ladies Smock, Bugle and Yellow Pimpernel.
A welcome cup of tea and biscuits was very kindly
provided by the Staff of the Epping Forest Conservation
Centre, All the members were most grateful to the Warden
and expressed their thanks to him and his Staff. We would
also like to express our thanks to the Conservators of
Epping Forest.
At the end of a most enjoyable meeting, ably led and
organised by our President, we had seen or heard 47 different
birds.
Mike Parker
May 20th 1972. Cambridge Area.(Botany)
A small party descended into Lime Kiln Close at Cherry
Hinton on a fine Saturday morning. Our search culminated in
the finding of the Perfoliate Honeysuckle (Lonicera
caprifolium) growing on the same site that the specimen of
this plant for Sowerby's English Botany was collected two
hundred years ago. We were lucky enough to find this plant
in flower and cameras were soon busy. We also found the
wild cherry, after which the place took its name.
Before lunch we followed the short Cherry Hinton Nature
Trail in one of the disused chalk pits, where we saw the later
stages in the succession of this type of habitat. Many
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