Further details of these events will made available to members nearer the dates in question.
- Do you want to encourage birds and butterflies to your garden?
- Are you interested in digging a wildlife pond?
- Are you looking for plants that will encourage insects?
Then come to the Conservation Group's
WILDLIFE GARDENERS' QUESTION TIME
'Gardening for Wildlife'
Thursday 3 April at 7.30 p.m. at the Woodcote Community Centre
- Come along to pose questions to our expert panel and join in the discussion
- Bring pictures or descriptions of plants or animals that you want us to try and identify
On the night we will also be launching the Village Environmental Audit. Come and add any species you have seen to our lists of wildflowers, birds, fungi, butterflies . . .
This event is free for all WCG members. A charge of £3 will be made for non-members (includes optional one-year membership.) Free refreshments. Please book in advance by emailing Helen Walkington at hwalkington@brookes.ac.uk
ORCHIDS, BUTTERFLIES and GLOW-WORMS
Visit to Bix Bottom Nature Reserve
- Meet at 2 p.m. at the Warburg Nature Reserve visitor centre (Bix Bottom) for a gentle, guided butterfly/orchid walk, led by the local warden. (Car-sharing and lifts from Woodcote Village Hall car-park at 1.30 p.m.) The walk will probably cover some rough/inclined ground, so come suitably booted.
- After the walk, at about 5.30pm, we plan to have a light meal at the Five Horseshoes pub in Maidensgrove, which is a short (1.5-mile), but steep walk from the reserve (or a 10-minute drive).
- At dusk we will descend back to the Warburg Nature Reserve visitor centre, for a glow-worm walk and to assist in the Reserve's glow-worm survey.
You are welcome to attend just one of these events if time is precious!
Please reserve your place with Phil Roberts (681159,
phil.roberts4@virgin.net) before the event.

Elephant Hawk Moth in a Woodcote garden
(Photo by Eric Grimes)
The 2007 fungus foray
We have also agreed to coordinate two actions proposed in the Woodcote Parish Plan: