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Do you know of a Common Lizard habitat, perhaps
some rough grassland, as this reptile is
very scarce in Essex and now requires some
conservation? If there are any problems in
identifying specimens, please telephone for help.
Thank you to those members who have already
sent records. Records already sent to the Essex
Naturalists' Trust need not be duplicated to me.
David Scott,
Court Hill,
Church Lane,
Little Leighs,
Chelmsford, Essex,
CM3 1PG.
Telephone Chelmsford 361475
GENERAL MEETING, EPPING FOREST WALK,
24th April, 1985
Sixteen of us met at Chingford Station at 11 a.m.
parked our cars in the road opposite, walked
west along the horse ride beside the golf course,
where a male kestrel hovered, to the top of Pole
Hill, to enjoy its panoramic views of the Thames
and Lea valleys.
One of our party was particularly interested in
insects - we didn't find many. Andrew Snelling
hunted myxomycetes and it was gratifying that
we soon came across what I know as 'bread sauce
fungus'. Andrew demonstrated that this was no
fungus, fixed and feeding on the tree, but a
conglomerate, moveable body thought to feed on
bacteria. One other myxomycete, looking like
collection of small, brown, furry match-heads