Category Archives: Woods Mill

Assistant Reserves Officer

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Assistant Reserves Officer Sussex Wildlife Trust Woods Mill
Sussex Wildlife Trust is currently seeking an experienced individual to undertake practical land management activities on their nature reserves and to support the management of livestock. Prerequisites include:

  • Tractor driving and using a range of tractor mounted equipment
  • Operating chainsaws and brushcutters
  • Practical land management, including the application of pesticides

More information here.

Finding, Identify & Surveying Invertebrates

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Finding, Identify & Surveying Invertebrates
Two day course to be taught by Graeme Lyons at Woods Mill on 29th & 30th May. Attendees will learn different ways to survey invertebrates from field craft such as beating, sweep-netting, sieving and netting to sampling techniques such as light-trapping, pitfall-trapping and water-trapping. Inevitably some identification will be taught too but the emphasis will be on surveying and field craft.

There is no music in the nightingale

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A nightingale sang in Mayfield Square
Click on the bird for a full LAMBS report. The BBC has elicited a response from the ecowibble office at Mayfield Market Towns Limited:

We have already employed ecologists to carry out preliminary studies, and the next stage will be to conduct more in-depth ecological studies which we will be consulting on at a later stage. This is all part of the normal planning process and we wouldn’t be allowed to develop without showing that we have looked at our ecological impact.

[Title from Shakespeare, illustration by Henry Stannard]