BIOBLITZ
Come and help identify as many species of wildlife as possible in a 24-hour period. Begins at 4pm on Saturday 10th August and finishes at 4pm on Sunday 11th. More details from Queen Elizabeth Country Park on 02392 595040
Chalk Pits
BIOBLITZ
Come and help identify as many species of wildlife as possible in a 24-hour period. Begins at 4pm on Saturday 10th August and finishes at 4pm on Sunday 11th. More details from Queen Elizabeth Country Park on 02392 595040
Chalk pits truck arrives ? slowly
On a wet March morning an old truck was dragged up into the Chalk Pits from Buriton pond. For over 70 years, trucks like this had hurtled around the site - carrying chalk from the quarry faces down to the limeworks below.
As well as being a Local Nature Reserve, the Buriton Chalk Pits are an important heritage site – steeped in local industrial history.
Scores of workers excavated enormous amounts of chalk from three main quarries here – and it was then burnt in a series of kilns to produce lime for the building industry and other uses.
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Butterflies in Buriton Chalk Pits - postponed (new details will appear when available)
Experts will guide parishioners and visitors around the Chalk Pits Nature Reserve, helping to identify local butterflies.
More details will be available nearer to the date of the event.
Bat and moth hunt in Buriton Chalk Pits
Experts will guide parishioners and visitors around the Chalk Pits Nature Reserve, helping to identify bats and moths.
More details will be available nearer to the date of the event.
Bat and moth hunt in Buriton Chalk Pits
Experts will guide parishioners and visitors around the Chalk Pits Nature Reserve, helping to identify bats and moths.
More details will be available nearer to the date of the event.
Hunt for spiders in Buriton Chalk Pits
Experts will guide parishioners and visitors around the Chalk Pits Nature Reserve, helping to identify a wide range of local spiders (and their web-sites!)
Book your places via the Queen Elizabeth Country Park by phoning 02392 595040.
Open Day in Buriton Chalk Pits
Activities for all age groups - storytelling, art activities, family quizzes, guided walks and a popular moth and bug hunt. All free of charge in our local Buriton Chalk Pits Nature Reserve.
Activities start at 11 am this year - and will finsih at 3 pm.
New attractions include working displays of traditional coppice crafts.
Organisers hope that many visitors will walk or cycle to the site but car parking is available at the Halls Hill Car Park at the top of Kiln Lane, Buriton.
New volunteer group begins to make a difference
A new group of volunteers has begun to look after parts of the Chalk Pits Nature Reserve - but there is still time for more people to join the (working) party!
With professional guidance from the Queen Elizabeth Country Park, about a dozen villagers and friends began to cut back some of the overgrown vegetation in the small quarry bowl recently.
To make sure that we see the best from the Chalk Pits Nature Reserve, regular work by volunteers will be necessary.
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Fungi foray finds threatened species
The latest guided walks in Buriton's Chalk Pits Nature Reserves discovered a rare fungus which appears on the Red Data List of threatened British fungi.
Over thirty parishioners and visitors enjoyed two guided walks led by Hampshire expert Simon Moore.
A variety of fungi – from large bracket types to miniature growths on decaying wood – were identified.
But the highlight of the events was the Solitary or Spiny Headed amanita (Amanita echinocephala) which appears on the UK Red Data List.
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