Overton Biodiversity Society

10^th July 2010

Cut-leaved Germander survey

Help Hampshire and Wildlife Trust survey numbers of this rare plant.

3^rd July 2010

Discover Glow-worms

Guided walk around St Mary's churchyard to look for glow-worms.

20^th June 2010

Visit to Forest Edge Garden

An afternoon visit to an outstanding wildlife garden on the outskirts of Andover (www.forest-edge.co.uk/garden.html).

22^nd May 2010

WI/OBS Sustainable Development Day - "Living for the Future"

Event hosted by Women's Institute with help from OBS.
Talks, workshops and displays on sustainable development issues affecting both Overton and the wider global community.

Keynote Speaker Prof. Tim Wheeler, Reading University. Deputy Chief Scientist and Deputy Director of Research at the Department for International Development (DfID). Other speakers from OXFAM, WaterAid and Action Aid and Adam Trickett (OBS!) on Low Carbon Living.

2^nd May 2010

Family fun in Little Meadow

Community picnic including activities for children and maypole dancing.

Cancelled due to bad weather

9^th May 2010

Bluebell walk

Walk through Burley wood.

18^th April 2010

Dawn Chorus walk

Guided walk around the Flashetts area in the early hours to listen to early morning birdsong followed by bacon butty/ homemade marmalade on toast breakfast in the Community Centre. Led by Peter Hutchins.

28^th January 2010

"My secret garden"

Talk on wildlife gardening by Peter Hutchins

18^th March 2010

AGM

AGM followed by an illustrated talk on orchids by OBS member Julian Aburrow.

19^th November 2009

Concerned about climate change: don't know what to do about it?

An illustrated talk organized by O.B.S. Practical advice on reducing your energy use (and save money!) and help the UK meet its carbon emissions targets.

If you missed the talk the slides are available for download: slides only and slides and notes or author's site

7^th November 2009

Day trip to the Isle of Wight

Trip to the Isle of Wight to look for red squirrels, migrant birds and ice cream...

18^th October 2009

Fungus foray

Walk lead by Dave Waterman

18^th September 2009

Bat and moth walk

This is National moth nigth. Brief talk on moths and bats followed by a walk around the village visiting a moth trap and using bat detectors to locate and identify bats. (View the list of moths caught here)

18^th July 2009

Discover Glow worms

Walk around the churchyard to look for glow worms.

7^thJune 2009

Walk around the Vyne Estate (National Trust)

10^thJune 2009

Bird watching walk (joint event wiht RSPB)

Circular evening walk with local RSPB members, guided by Peter Hutchins, taking in the Lynch, the Harrow Way, Court Drove and Silkmill Lane.

26^thApril 2009

Dawn Chorus walk

A gentle early morning stroll to look and listen for birds and other wildlife about the village.

(Check what we saw and heard)

2^ndMay 2009

Family Fun in Little Meadow

Community picnic including activities for children and maypole dancing

19^thMarch 2009

Annual General Meeting and Open evening

Short AGM followed by an illustrated talk by Professor Julian Evans OBE: 'A wood of our own (in the parish)'

Displays, 2009 programme of events, bird seeds sale...

8^thFebruary 2009

Winter Tree walk

Short walk looking at trees in the winter — including tree identification, tree management and tree planting. Walk led by local tree expert Ken Marchment.

18^th October 2008

Dormouse survey

Training session for upcoming dormouse survey.

13^th July 2008

Dawn Chorus walk

Walk around the Flashetts area in the early hours to listen to birds singing followed by breakfast. (Read the report here)

24^th May 2008

Overton Biodiversity Action Plan Community Event

Firts working session on creating a BAP for the parish.

3^rd May 2008

Family Fun in Little Meadow

Community picnic including activities for children and maypole dancing

4^th May 2008

Dawn Chorus Walk

Walk around the Flashetts area in the early hours to listen to birds singing. (View the sightings list here)

20^th March 2008

Annual General Meeting and Open evening

OBS displays and illustrated talk by HART Wildlife Rescue.

2^nd November 2007

A dormice in my pocket

Illustrated talk by Andrew Cleave, MBE.

20^th October 2007

Fungus foray

Walk lead by Dave Waterman from the Community Centre towards the churchyard, Little Meadow and Flashetts.

17^th July 2007

Tree and wild flower walk

A 1½ to 2h walk in the Polhampton area, lead by Tony Mundell, the county recorder for flora in North Hampshire.

6^th June 2007

Bird walk

Joint bird watching walk OBS / RSPB, led by Peter Hutchins in the Berrydown area.

6^th May 2007

Grand Opening of Little Meadow

Official celebration of the completion of the project "Uniting Community and Countryside" at Little Meadow.

Community picnic followed by family fun: treasure hunts, nestbuilding, colouring, time capsule display, maypole dancing...

29^th April 2007

Biodiversity Action Plan public meeting

Find out how you can help to produce a "Biodiversity Action Plan" for Overton. The BAP will fill in the practical wildlife details at the parish level which can actually inform the decisions made for site management and planning.

29^th March 2007

Annual General Meeting and Open evening

Guest speaker: Liz Allison talking about the work of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and how to produce a "Biodiversity Action Plan" for Overton.

22^nd February 2007

Climate Change Talk

Illustrated talk by Dr Mike Sparrow from the Climate Variability Project at Southampton University. Followed by a Questions & Answer session.

14^th January 2007

Guided walk

Walk along the Historic Overton Heritage and Nature Trail led by Adrian Lewis.

31^st December 2006

Bird watching walk

Short bird watching walk at Ashe Warren with Peter Hutchins.

26^th November 2006

Bird watching walk

Short bird watching walk at the Northdown Plantation - Bramsdown Copse with Peter Hutchins.

3^rd November 2006

Climate change - From Science to solutions

An illustrated talk by Dr Mike Sparrow of Southampton University, Department of Oceanography.

29^th October 2006

Bird watching walk

Short bird watching walk in the Berrydown - Upper Ashe area with Peter Hutchins.

24^th September 2006

Bird watching walk

Short bird watching walk along the Historic Overton Trail with Peter Hutchins.

30^th July 2006

Bird watching walk

Short bird watching walk at Northington Farm - Harrow Way with Peter Hutchins.

23^rd July 2006

Visit to Forest Edge Garden

Private visit of a wildflower garden near Andover (www.forest-edge.co.uk).

15^th July 2006

Introduction to wildflowers

Workshop to learn to identify the common wildflowers found in meadows and by the roadsides.

24^th June 2006

Bird watching walk

Short bird watching walk at Micheldever Spoil Heaps - The Scrubs with Peter Hutchins.

17^th June 2006

Ladybird workshop

Introduction to the various species of ladybird found locally and launch of our Labydird watch.

18^th June 2006

Moths & wild flowers

O.B.S. displays at 'Northdown Orchard open day' (organic vegetable farm) plus a look at the wildlife there.

24^th May 2006

Bird watching walk

Evening walk in the Lower Ashe - Quidhampton area with Sally Slater from the RSPB Basingstoke Local Members Group.

27^th May 2006

Discover snails

A short stroll lead by Dr June Chatfield of the Choncological Society to look for snails in their natural habitat.

7^th May 2006

Dawn chorus walks

Walk around the Flashetts area in the early hours to listen to birds singing.

23^rd April 2006

Bird watching walk

Short bird watching walk in the Lower Whitehill - Turrill Hill area with Peter Hutchins.

26^th March 2006

Bird watching walk

Short bird watching walk in the Court Drove - Harroway area with Peter Hutchins.

10^th March 2006

Overton's ancient trees & Open evening

O.B.S. Annual General Meeting followed by an illustrated talk on remarkable trees in Overton by John Smith and Jim Stickland.

26^th February 2006

Bird watching walk

Short bird watching walk in the Lower Ashe-Quidhampton area with Peter Hutchins.

29^th January 2006

Bird watching walk

Short bird watching walk around the Flashetts area with Peter Hutchins.

28^th January 2006

Winter tree identification

Guided walk with Richard Gibbins to learn to identify trees in winter.

11^thNovember 2005

All about Dormice

An illustrated talk by Ian White from the Hampshire Mammal Group.

29^thOctober 2005

Feed the Birds Day

Bird displays and bird food for sale to mark the RSPB's Feed the Birds Day.

12^thAug 2005

Bat survey

Bat survey in Overton with the Hampshire Bat Group and Hampshire Wildlife Trust.

31^thJuly 2005

Tree walk

Circular walk from the Community Centre towards Ashe to discover trees of interest.

10^thJuly 2005

Dawn chorus walk (2)

Short walk in Overton lead by Peter Hutchins in the early hours to listen to song birds.

26^thJune 2005

What is that tree?

Tree identification with Richard Gibbins.

19^thJune 2005

Visit to Forest Edge Garden

Private visit of a wildflower garden. (Members only)

8^thJune 2005

Bird spotting (in partnership with RSPB)

Circular walk lead by Peter Hutchins to look at local birds in the countryside.

8^thJune 2005

Moth evening

Close up look at moths (and other insects) flying at night.

8^thMay 2005

Dawn chorus walks

Short walks in Overton lead by Peter Hutchins in the early hours to listen to song birds.

29^thApril 2005

Hedgerow survey results

Presentation of the results of the hedgerow survey carried out by O.B.S. members.

4^th March 2005

AGM + Water voles

Annual General Meeting followed by a slide presentation on water voles by Dr Jon Benge of Sparsholt College.

30^th October 2004

Bats & Owls

Presentations on bats by Paul Hope and on owls by Peter Hutchins followed by a short walk to look for bats.

9^th October 2004

Northdown Orchard

Guided walk led by Mike Fisher at Northdown Orchard Organic Farm.

29^th August 2004

Northdown plantation

29^th July 2004

Moth evening

Moth trapping at Micheldever Spoil Heap NR.

18^th July 2004

Nature trail

Guided walk along the proposed Flashetts Nature Trail.

24^th June 2004

Willesley Warren Farm

Hedgerows and Countryside Stewardship presentation by Mr Plumtree. (Members only)

28^th May 2004

Moth evening

Moth trapping at Southington.

7^th May 2004

Bats talk and walk

Presentation followed by a bat 'hunt'.

30^th April 2004

The River Test

Presentation by Alison Cross.

24^th March 2004

Open evening

O.B.S. first Annual General Meeting.