PAUL MOXEY (Epping Forest Conservation Centre)
Changes in the Bird Community since 1800
COLIN RANSON (Nature Conservancy Council)
Nature Conservation
The symposium is being arranged by the
Essex Field Club, the Epping Forest Conser-
vation Centre and the Nature Conservancy
Council and will be held at the Loughton
College of Further Education. The programme
will include field visits to various parts of
the Forest.
It is intended that the proceedings of
the symposium will be published as a special
volume of the Essex Naturalist.
The cost will be in the region of £6 per
person, inclusive of excursions, lunches,,
teas and coffees for the two days.
Applications should be made to the
Epping Forest Conservation Centre, High Beach,
Loughton, Essex (01-508-7714), from where full
details may be obtained.
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SOME OBSERVATIONS AT LITTLE LEIGHS
by David Scott
From a warm log fireside, with snow on
the wind outside, it is good to look back on
the past year and on some of the wild life
seen in and near my garden.
My high spot of the year was the loan of
a mercury vapour moth trap. Our moth numbers
have always been good here and, being an
isolated house in a varied arable/small wood
area, the specimens are attracted to the
house lights. However, the use of the trap