'September Bat Presentation'
As part of Heritage Open Days 2013, experts from the Surrey Bat Group visited the wildlife area on Sunday, 15th September 2013 to offer advice to local residents on how to best conserve bats. We would like to thank them for bringing their display of information on Surrey's bat population, their summer roosts, winter hibernation and feeding grounds. Visitors were also able to meet a live pair of pipistrelles and a serotine bat.
For more information on the work carried out by the Surrey Bat Group, visit their website by clicking here
The newsletter has been circulated to members and residents during January. Click here for the on-line version.
The Wildlife Area is an ideal place for families to visit and have picnics. Running a wildlife area inevitably involves a delicate balance of priorities - protecting and encouraging wildlife and also providing an area which gives pleasure to visitors and residents alike. Most of these are reflected in our Fox Corner Country Code.
Dogs are a particular issue. If uncontrolled, they can alarm wildlife, disturb nests and leave unwelcome excrement anywhere on the site. Groups of children are encouraged to visit to enjoy pond-dipping and mini-beast hunts. For their sake, it is vital that they do not come into contact with the results of dog-fouling. At one stage, we felt that it would be a good idea to ban dogs altogether but after representations from local people, agreed that they could be allowed but strictly only on leads.
We respectfully, but firmly, ask you to abide by this particular rule.