Today, I spent around five hours exploring the grounds of Tylney Hall with a friend.

I spent an hour walking around Brookwood Cemetery, taking the opportunity to assess the general condition of the site and see what I could find.

I spent two hours volunteering at Tice’s Meadow, with around an hour of the session focused on practical habitat management.

Attended a 30-minute webinar addressing the design, function and conservation application of bee bricks as nesting infrastructure for solitary bees in urban developments.

I spent two hours at Elstead Common focusing on photographing and identifying dragonflies around the heathland ponds.

A practical introduction to bat rescue and rehabilitation, covering safe handling, injury assessment, welfare, recovery and pathways into bat care.

A productive butterfly transect at Tice’s Meadow, recording 291 butterflies, including 20 Clouded Yellows with a rare helice form.

A butterfly survey and walkover revealed abundant Common Blues, Small Coppers and Gatekeepers, with a patrolling hawker providing photography practice.

Tice’s Meadow Open Day; moth trapping, dipping and engaging visitors with wildlife.

A cooler, overcast butterfly transect at Tice’s Meadow produced lower numbers but good variety, highlighting weather’s influence on survey results.

Butterfly transect across Tice’s Meadow and Runfold Ridge, recording Common Blues, Painted Lady, Hummingbird Hawk-moth and other striking invertebrates.