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Meetings Report.
Mammal Group Meeting to Running Water Wood. Belhus Park
near Aveley. 14th July. 1974.
Leader - Ron Allen.
Fifty Longworth Small Mammal Traps having been set
the previous evening the party were able to examine the
catch. A woodmouse (Apodemus sylvatious) was caught
in bramble on a ditch side adjacent to arable farmland.
Three bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) were caught
in bramble and nettle undergrowth in birch and hazel
coppice and a common shrew (Sorex araneus) was found
in a barley crop about 4m outside the Wood.
We then rambled through the woodland and David
Corke pointed out features of mammal interest. A
badger sett was visited and while rabbits were
obviously in residence evidence of badger activities
was inconclusive. Our thanks to David Corke for
providing the Traps, David Scott for collecting
them and Peter Verden for assistance with setting
them.
Ron Allen
Martin Gregory Kept a plant list and this has been
passed on to the Recorder.
Report of the Botany Group Meeting to Rainham Marsh.
Sunday 11th August, 1974.
After meeting it Rainham Station a party of about 17
members proceeded down Ferry Lane, then left in front
of the Murex works to park at the entrance to the
refuse dump.
Very little of Rainham Marsh exists today, we