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18 for the best natural history survey and
account of an Essex churchyard. First
prize will be a copy of the 3rd Edition of
the Flora of the British Isles.
The survey should follow the churchyard
throughout the year and the closing date
for entries will be 1st November, 1987.
Application forms are available now from
the Rev. Nigel Cooper, Glebe House, 19
Vicarage Road, Chelmsford, CM2 9PH.
2. Any primary school in Essex can write
to the Essex Churchyard Conservation Group
and request the services of a natural
history expert to give one of their classes
a guided natural history tour of their own
parish churchyard during the period April
to July, 1987.
KEN ADAMS
BATTING FOR ESSEX
1986 is National Bat Year and at county level
has seen the continuation of the survey
started in 1981. There have been, to date,
18 new 10 km. square records, several success
stories and also a lot of records of corpses
in spring and autumn, which may reflect either
the bats response to the weather or an
increased awareness by the public of the need
to report bats. The breeding season proved
that the more you study bats, the less you
seem to know about them.
The first "event" of the year was a survey