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gets a cut of the price.
Book Details
Bellamy on Botany, David Bellamy, BBC. 2nd edition
1975. ISBN 0 503 106662. pp 110 paperback £1.50
The Oxford Book of Trees, B. E. Nicholson & A. R. Clapham
Oxford University Press 1975. ISBN 0 19 91001IX
pp 216 hardback £4.95
Fallow Deer, Donald and Norma Chapman, Terence Dalton
1975, IXBN 0 900963 506 pp.271 hardback £7.80
David Corke
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EPPING FOREST WILDLIFE
I spend several hours a day in Epping Forest,
accompanied by a number of junior school children.
The most common mammal seen is the grey squirrel -
as many as twenty have been counted on a general walk
between High Beach and Loughton. Occasionally rabbits
and rarely a hare, fox, stoat, weasel or field mouse
cross our path. On the cold, damp afternoon of January
13th 1972 a child spotted a small creature running in
the grass at our feet - I bent down and captured it,
not daring to open my hand until we were back in
school - it turned out to be the first harvest-mouse
to be recorded in Epping Forest.
Each Spring the children are organised into
groups and equipped with maps, compasses and instruct-
ions are set to follow a route, unaccompanied by
adults. This is one of the highlights of the year
and whilst a careful check is kept of each group's
progress and safety, they are on their own. those
who follow the instructions "Go quietly, look and
listen" have been rewarded with the sight of a