Training Courses for 2016
Training Course Schedule & Site Visits for 2016:
Personal /Team Skills:
Course 1. Work-Party Management (for those who are already work-party leaders and who missed the course last year):
Personal /Team Skills:
COMPLETED / Course 1. Work-Party Management (for those who are already work-party leaders and who missed the course last year):
Tutor: Zoe Channon (B&DBC)
Venue: Russell Howard Pavilion, near Westside Community Centre, South Ham
Timing: 9.30 am -12.30 pm, Saturday 9 April 2016
Technical Skills:
Course 2. Hedge Laying (for beginners):
Tutor: HIWWT
Venue: External at Crabtree Plantation
Timing: Saturday in Spring 2017
Course 3. Coppicing Training – Woodland Management (for beginners):
Tutors: Oakley Woodland Group Course
Venue: St John’s Copse, St John’s Road , Oakley
Timing: 10 am – 1 pm, Wednesday 5 October and Saturday 8 October, 2016 [book directly with OWG]
Ecological Knowledge:
Course 4. Mammal Surveying (for beginners):
Tutor: Jim Andrews (Millfield)
Venue: Millfield LNR
Timing: Friday evening followed by Saturday morning in Spring or late Summer 2016
Course 5. Bird Surveying (for beginners – binoculars are desirable):
Tutor: Peter Hutchins
Venue: TBA
Timing: Saturday morning, 2016
Course 6. Tree Identification in Winter (for beginners):
Tutor: Nicola Williams
Venue: Royal British Legion Club, Old Basing, and then to Crabtree Plantation
Timing: 10 am to 12 midday, Saturday 8 October 2016 (Room is booked 10-11 am)
Course 7. Bees:
Tutor: Chris Rose (ODBW)
Venue: Old Down Hall, 364 Kempshott Lane, Basingstoke, RG22 5UY then to Old Down (adjacent to the Hall)
Timing: Coffee at 9.45 ready for a 10 am start. 10 am-12 midday, Sat 23 July 2016
Content: An hour’s talk followed by an hour’s field work, weather permitting, with a focus on bumble bees and solitary bees as found on Old Down. Bring hand lenses. The presentation can be emailed afterwards to anyone who wants a copy.
Site Visits:
COMPLETED Site Visit 1. Popley Conservation Volunteers
Leader: Dave Glover
Venue: Popley Ponds Local Nature Reserve, Tobago Close, Popley RG24 9PX, and then to Basing Forrest or Carpenter’s Down Wood (followed by an optional call at The Swan, Sherborne St John)
Timing: 10 am-12 midday, Saturday 4 June 2016
Site Visit 3. South View Cemetery Conservation Group
Leader: Petronella Nattrass
Venue: Park on the road above the Cemetery Lodge (or elsewhere and walk), then to South View Cemetery followed by the Station Master’s Garden
Timing: 10 am-12 midday, Saturday 9 July 2016
Site Visit 2. Black Dam and Crabtree Conservation Group
Leader: Chris Worgan
Venue: Black Dam Nature Reserve and Crab Tree Plantation, Bolton Arch car park off A30, Old Basing
Timing: 6-8 pm, Monday 18 July 2016