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Harebell and tiny wasp spider (will get bigger soon!) from Mill Meadows. a White Letter Hairstrea butterfly was recently recorded on a transect survey - a new one for the site records.

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Mill Meadows Wildflower Walk.

new cattle on Mill Meadows today. 10 yearling heifers clustering around the new boardwalks. they seemed to have already become quite calm. I was able to walk slowly through them and just got curious looks. they will stay on the SSSI for a week or two then be removed to the west and north west of the Reserve to allow the wildflowers to flourish.

Our NFC tags are on Mill Meadows - most of them are attached to a disc like the one in the picture. By putting your phone next to the tag you can read about where you are on Mill Meadows. To add a bit of fun to your walk we have added a quiz which you can download from the link below. (you can download the map too) you will need to lookup the answers on your phone by holding it next to the NFC tags - the link below tells you more. Please LIKE if you have been able to try the quiz. http://www.millmeadows.org.uk/our-trails

Could you help us out by answering a quick question? Red Poll Cattle graze on Mill Meadows during 7 months of the year. Do the cattle deter you from visiting Mill Meadows? 🐮🐮🐮

over the unusually warm weekend a Peacock butterfly flittered by and I found some Long-tailed Tits collecting nest material. Lots of song from Song Thrush, Great Tit, Robin, Dunnock and even the occassional Wren, Blackbird and Treecreeper joining in. Counted at least 30 frogs in the pond by The Scout Hall.

Frogs in a balmy winter

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Merry Christmas from everyone at the Mill Meadows Society #billericay #essex

last Saturday we fitted the Safetread on the two completed board walks around Oakfield. The last boardwalk was completed by Pearl on Monday. We will fit Safetread on that probably in the New Year, as well as tidy up around the ends of the boards by supporting some of the soil - might consider shingle. The weather conditions were less than ideal and there was more churning up than we wanted and we'll have to monitor how it recovers.

our History booklets are available on the Savings Guru stall at the Christmas Market today.

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the other eight cattle were taken away to their winter quarters this morning. look forward to some coming back next Spring. 4 were taken up to Suffolk and another 4 are more local - in fact I took a picture of some of them this week outside their barn.