Field Club members visited this privately owned reserve on 8^th July to help provide baseline data as management begins.

A small group came out for this site in Sheppey on 24^th June. It is a planted woodland and amenity land adjacent to a housing estate. The large pond was nearly dry due to the heatwave, but provided an interesting location to observe courtship behaviour of some long-legged flies. Beyond the trees, the site changes into scrubland and some patches of meadow, in which we spotted a few orchids, various bumblebee species and numerous Cinnabar moths!

On 10^th June, a dozen or so members made the trip to this charming nature reserve in Thanet. It is a SSSI for the geology as well as being home to an astonishing diversity of orchids and various nesting bird species. The diversity of habitat types was interesting, with woodland, scrubland and chalk.

This site is always popular with KFC members, due to its beautiful chalk downland and the likelihood of spotting something unusual.

Over a dozen KFC members turned up to visit Berry Court Wood on the 12^th May. This is a privately owned site close to the controversial proposed Lodge Hill Development, and therefore likely to be affected by any large-scale housing in the area.