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POSTPONED UNTIL THIS FRIDAY! Red Post Hill, Up Sydling

Today's event has been rescheduled for this Friday because of the weather forecast.

Cutting bramble and thorn regrowth and burning up at Lankham Bottom Butterfly Reserve

Lankham Bottom Butterfly Reserve near Cattistock

We shall be continuing with our autumn/winter programme of bramble and other scrub control and will be burning the brash as long as the wind remains in the east as forecast- ie blowing away from the A37)  

Habitat management at Lyme Regis for the Wood White butterfly

Lyme Regis - fields below Timber Hill

We shall be doing a second session with the NT today to clear more of the invading bramble scrub in the fields between the Spittles landslips and the Charmouth Road carpark to prevent the rich butterfly habitat being suffocated.

RESCHEDULED! Red Post Hill, Up Sydling - planting cowslips for the Duke!

Red Post Hill, Up Sydling

RESCHEDULED FROM TUESDAY: We’re looking for volunteers to help plant cowslips to boost the chances of our Duke of Burgundy butterflies on Red Post Hill - part of the Up Sydling Estate. Will you join our team?

Wildflower meadow maintenance in Charminster

Charminster Community Field nr Dorchester

This week we will be carrying out the annual cutting of the grass and moving the arisings to the dump site in a corner of the field.

Scrub clearing on the slopes west of Corscombe

Linhay - above Corscombe

We will be continuing with the work to clear the bramble and thorn from a hillside west of Corscombe. Beautiful views guaranteed!

Woodland glade maintenance at Monmouth Hill, Milton Abbas - a volunteer workday with BC Dorset and EuCAN

Monmouth Hill, Milton abbas

Butterfly Conservation (Dorset branch) and EuCAN will be holding volunteer workparties this autumn and winter season, normally on the third Thursday of the month.

South Chard Gravel pits - EuCAN Somerset Volunteers

South Chard Gravel pits - nr Chard

We are back at this interesting worked out gravel pit today (rescheduled from October 20th) - to carry out the routine scrubcutting on the open areas to prevent them closing in and to undertake some tree work to reduce the birch and willow trees that are shading the grassland areas.

Chainsaw refresher training course

Motcombe, nr Shaftesbury

This is a two day refresher training leading to a LANTRA certificate. one place still available.

Brown Hairstreak Egg Search Alners Gorse / Rooksmoor, Hazelbury Bryan

Alners Gorse Butterfly Rserve

This is the chance to take part in our annual Brown Hairstreak egg search for some or all of the day. It is a very valuable way to assess the status of this species on the two sites.

Creating corridors in the scrub in the NE corner of Alners Gorse Butterfly Reserve, Hazelbury Bryan.

Alners Gorse Butterfly Reserve

Today we will be working with The Dorset Countryside Volunteers and mainly handtools - aiming to create a corridor to connect the open area of the wood with the track down the eastern edge.

Woodland glade maintenance at Monmouth Hill, Milton Abbas - a volunteer workday with BC Dorset and EuCAN

Monmouth Hill near Milton Abbas

Butterfly Conservation (Dorset branch) and EuCAN will be holding volunteer workparties this autumn and winter season, normally on the third Thursday of the month. If you are available to help us, your company will be hugely appreciated!

Volunteer workparty at Alners Gorse Butterfly Reserve with Nick Purdew (BC SW area reserves manager)

Alners Gorse Butterfly Reserve

An opportunity for volunteers to help with the management of one of Dorset's richest butterfly and moth sites! We will be using handtools, and an electric chainsaw when necessary.