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Naturalists' Trust's Reserves provides details
of its history, natural history, conser-
vation, modern problems and it's future.
It also includes species lists of higher
plants, mosses, lichens, birds, butterflies
and other insects. Five maps are also
included, but the four photographs are
poorly printed. It is an excellent source
of information of what is to be found and
whether a discovery is a new record.
TONY BONIFACE
REPORTS OF MEETINGS
MAMMAL MEETING, DAWN RED SQUIRREL COUNT AND
DEER WATCH, THETFORD FOREST, 10TH MAY, 1986
Eight Essex Field Club Members and two
guests joined the 40 or so other enthusiasts
this year attending the annual Red Squirrel
Survey organised by the Forestry Commission
in Thetford Forest.
Thankfully the drizzle, which had threatened
at dawn during the drive up from Essex, had
stopped by the time we assembled in the car
park of the Forestry Commission Headquarters
at Santon Downham, Norfolk for the 6.00 a.m.
start. It was still overcast, but it was
dry and fairly mild - good conditions for
the survey.
After a brief introduction from the organiser
the party split into small groups, each led
by a Forester who had been assigned specific
blocks of forest to survey.