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in different parts of the county we converged on
David Scott's local village hall for food and an
interesting lecture on badgers given by Bob Cowlin.
We then rallied through lanes, each taken a
different route, to observe nocturnal mammals. We
closed the meeting by watching fallow deer at
Bennetts Farm. Mammals seen on this meeting
included badgers, foxes, fallow deer, a shrew and
hedgehogs.
In order to get a more realistic idea of the
mammal population at West Wood another meeting was
held there in October (19th), a season when more
mammals are likely to inhabit the wood. David
Corke lead it and caught a fairly diverse range of
small mammals thought to be fairly representative
of woodland mammalian fauna. These included
yellow-necked mice.
On 10th January 1976 Doctor John Owen gave a
very interesting, well illustrated lecture on his
studies of wild game and goats in Africa. The
meeting was held at the Broomfield Education Centre
and closed with tea, kindly provided by Mrs Parker.
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Answers to Fungi types (see page 6)
1. MYCENAS 2. DEATHCAP 3. MOREL 4. BRACKET
5. BOLETUS 6. EARTHSTAR 7. PARASOL 8. HYDNUM
9. CUP FUNGUS
Hope to see you at the Fungus Forays for practice in
the field!
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