Back to .... Homepage LOCAL WILDLIFE SITES EMSWORTH FRIENDS OF EMSWORTH WAYSIDES - http://www.emsworthwaysides.hampshire.org.uk/ The Friends of Emsworth Waysides is a new conservation group set up in September 2009 by a number of local residents who were concerned at the mowing and chemical spraying by the Council and its contractors of roadside verges and other small areas around the town. The new group will work with the Council to foster biodiversity, pilot a different approach to urban wayside management, create wildlife 'corridors' and encourage residents interest in their local environment and participation in its management and maintenance. BROOK MEADOW CONSERVATION GROUP - http://www.brook-meadow.hampshire.org.uk/ All the news and photographs from this local conservation group in Emsworth FRIENDS OF HOLLYBANK WOODS - http://www.hants.org.uk/hollybank-woods/ A great local wildlife site with a daily Woodland Diary edited by Andy Brook FRIENDS OF NORE BARN WOODS - http://www.norebarnwoods.org.uk Another local conservation group web site who are helping to manage this small woodland area to the west of Emsworth. SLIPPER MILLPOND PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION - http://www.smppa.org.uk/ The tidal-filled Slipper Mill Pond lies to the East of Emsworth where the River Ems enters Chichester Harbour and the sea. It is a unique brackish wildlife habitat with: over 25 species of birds, more than 60 different plants and trees on its banks, * breeding ground for many fish, especially grey mullet, many different animals in its muddy bottom - 2 protected species of mud invertebrates and an interesting tube worm. This historic pond dating from the 1760s has 34 owners who have charged the Slipper Mill Pond Preservation Association with its care and maintenance for the quiet enjoyment of the public. HAVANT AND LOCAL AREA RALPH HOLLINS - LOCAL WILDLIFE HIGHLIGHTS - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ralph.hollins/ Ralph is our premier local naturalist and maintains a data base of all wildlife sightings for the area centred on Havant. In addition to his current diary and weekly summary the web site also has maps and directions on how to get to sites of interest as well as lots of other useful information. JOHN GOODSPEED - HAVANT NATURE - http://www.havantnature.net/ A local wildlife magazine focussing on the Havant/Portsmouth area plus super wildlife pictures. LANGSTONE HARBOUR WILDLIFE - http://langstoneharbourwildlife.blogspot.com/ This blog is about wildlife around Langstone Harbour with an emphasis on birds written by Jason Crook. Jason is a local birdwatcher and seasonal warden at Hayling Oysterbeds. His favourite local patches are Farlington Marshes, a Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust reserve, and Hayling Island Oysterbeds. JOHN VIGAY - SOUTH DOWNS GROUP - http://www.vigay.com/wildlife/ Includes a South Downs page and lots of information about other nature reserves in the area. INDIVIDUAL SITES GEORGE SPRAGGS - BIRDWATCHING - http://www.bird-watching.co.uk/ A web site with an excellent gallery of bird photos run by a young and very enthusiastic local birder based in Hayling Island. PETER'S PURPLE PAGES - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.raby2/ Another great web site for bird and flower photos from Peter Raby. WILDLIFE SOCIETIES HAMPSHIRE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY - http://www.hos.org.uk/ The basic site for the HOS with information about surveys, sites, meetings, conservation, etc. HAMPSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST - http://www.hwt.org.uk/ The Trust is the leading wildlife charity in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, responsible for over 50 wildlife reserves representing more than 6000 acres of valuable wildlife habitat. Work closely with conservation volunteers, members of the public, land owners and a wide range of organisations to conserve wildlife in town and countryside. SUSSEX ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY - http://www.sos.org.uk/ Excellent site with all recent sightings and news. CHICHESTER HBR CONSERVANCY: - http://www.conservancy.co.uk/ “Chichester Harbour Conservancy is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty comprising 11 square miles of water and 11 square miles of land with 17 miles of well marked and lighted channels which, with its easy access to the Solent, makes it an ideal water recreation centre. There are many inter-related activities such as sailing, fishing, walking and wildfowling as well as nearly 9,000 vessels over 3 metres in length, 3,200 moorings, 2,000 berths in four marinas and 14 sailing clubs.” BTCV - http://www.btcv.org/ British Trust for Conservation Volunteers - The leading conservation organistion in the country. Supports all the local groups. CHICHESTER HARBOUR WILDFOWLERS ASSOCIATION - http://www.chwa.org/ Chichester Harbour Wildfowlers Association was formed in 1956 due directly to the 1954 Protection of Birds Act and the growing need to protect the interests of the local Wildfowler and help to sustain the legal pursuit of Ducks, Geese and Waders below the Sea Wall. BRENT LODGE BIRD HOSPITAL - http://www.brentlodge.org/ “Brent Lodge is a bird and wildlife hospital, founded in 1978. It is dedicated to the rehabilitation and release of injured wild creatures, specialising in birds and small mammals. The hospital is located near to Chichester in the South of England, on a site of one and three-quarter acres. With its range of indoor and outdoor pens, and attendant medical and surgical facilities, it is one of the best wildlife hospitals in the U.K. Brent Lodge is a registered charity and depends entirely upon voluntary help and donations.” LOCAL COUNCILS HAVANT BOROUGH COUNCIL - http://www.havant.gov.uk/ HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL - http://www.hants.gov.uk A huge site and very useful info on web site construction, etc. Offers free web space to organisations. Apparently this is the favourite site of Bill Gates. LOCAL RESERVES BRANDY HOLE COPSE - http://www.brandyholecopse.org.uk/ Chichester's first local Nature Reserve. Walk through 15 acres of woodland. Three ponds. Pre Roman dyke. Evidence of Smugglers caves. WW II Defences . WWT ARUNDEL - http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit/arundel RYE HARBOUR NATURE RESERVE - http://www.rxwildlife.org.uk News and information on the reserve with a good map. “The Nature Reserve is in the Rother District in the County of East Sussex, England. It lies on the coast to the south of the Cinque Port town of Rye, to the west of the River Rother. Within the wider area of ROMNEY MARSH the land has several national and international designations of its wildlife interest. There are eight Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), a candidate Special Protection Area (SPA), a candidate Ramsar wetland site, a potential Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and an Important Bird Area (IBA). Rye Harbour Nature Reserve has all these designations.” NON-WILDLIFE EMSWORTH WEB SITES EMSWORTH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION - http://www.emsworth-residents.co.uk Monitoring planning issues that affect Emsworth, Lobbying local government on behalf of Emsworth residents, Keeping residents informed on local issues, Encouraging public debate through open meetings, EMSWORTH IN PHOTOGRAPHS - http://www.emsworthinphotographs.com/ This website is designed to be a photographic record of Emsworth during the first years of the 21st century. . . . from David Linington of Emsworth Web Designs - http://www.emsworthwebdesigns.co.uk THE EMSWORTH DIRECTORY - http://www.emsworth.info/index.htm Your one stop online information centre for everything going on in Emsworth from from Phil Gale EMSWORTH BUSINESS ASSOCIATION - http://www.emsworth.org.uk/ EMSWORTH ONLINE - http://www.emsworth.vir.co.uk/ Complete re-design in 2005 with new graphics, more content and the strategic goal of more interaction. Includes a forum. The aim of this site is to provide the most comprehensive resource for visitors and residents of Emsworth. WALKS AROUND EMSWORTH - http://website.lineone.net/~gill.clark/portfolio/sites/emsworth/index.htm Take a virtual walk around Emsworth with Gill Elsbury-Clark. COAL EXCHANGE FOOTBALL CLUB - http://www.geocities.com/coalexchange/ Fixtures, players, leagues and all the information about this local football club. "One team in Emsworth!" EMSWORTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION - http://www.emsworthcommunityassociation.org.uk/ A guide to our local community association EMSWORTH SURGERY - http://www.emsworthsurgery.co.uk All you need to know about the Emsworth Surgery in North Street. EMSWORTH MUSEUM - http://emsworthmuseum.co.uk The Trust was formed to archive and display the history of Emsworth and its surroundings, to make the public aware of Emsworth's historical position. The Museum, opened in1988, is entirely run by volunteers, and has a section of the area's history displayed in articles, books, pictures and clothing. EMSWORTH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY - http://www.emsworthhorticulturalsociety.org.uk/ The Emsworth Horticultural Society is a local society for gardeners. Silver medallist at Chelsea 2001 in courtyard garden class.They organise the annual Emsworth Show. OTHER LINKS FATBIRDER - http://www.fatbirder.com/ The premier web resource about birds, birding & birdwatching for birders - hundreds of pages & tens of thousands of links about birding everywhere in the world; with a page for every country and state. Books, guides, forums, reserves, accommodation, trip reports, bird clubs, ornithology, twitching, conservation, optics, holidays, and so much more and now a page for every bird family too! Each page has sections on guides, mailing lists, reserves, places to stay, trip reports, bird clubs, etc. This website benefits hugely from the contributions of birders & ornithologists from all over the world. DIGITAL WILDLIFE - http://www.digitalwildlife.co.uk/ A great site from Richard Ford with lots of information about digiscoping and some truly wonderful bird photos - probably the best on the web. Most of the pictures were taken using a Nikon Coolpix 4500 digital camera, in Hampshire and southern Britain. Though Richard takes anything that catches his eye, the majority are images of Birds. Most of the birds are photographed using the Digiscoping method. Other images are captured using a Nikon Coolpix alone or with the additional 3x Teleconverter (TC-E3ED). DIGISCOPED - http://www.digiscoped.com/ Andy Bright's excellent site, with great digiscoped images, equipment reviews and plenty of advice and useful information. DIGISCOPING - http://www.digiscoping.co.uk/ Lots of useful information about digiscoping on this site sponsopred by London Camera Exchange. BIRD FORUM - http://www.birdforum.net/ Great discussion forum on many aspects of birding and photography with Andy Bright's special forum on digiscoping. EAGLE EYE OPTICS - http://www.eagleeyeuk.com/ Commercial supplier of digiscoping equipment British Library of Wildlife Sounds: http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/wild.html   BIRD GUIDES - http://www.birdguides.com/ This is a commercial site for Birdguides which produce bird CD Roms which I can fully recommend. I have 'All the Birds of Europe'. They also do a British Birds. The site contains information about birding books as well as news about rarities BIRDS OF BRITAIN - http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/index.htm Magazine web site with over 170 pages including changing monthly features and a permanent guide to Britain's bird reserves and clubs and has illustrations of over 100 birds. Rutland Nature Reserve: http://www.rutlandwater.org.uk http://www.rutlandwater.org.uk/ Berkshire Birding: http://www.berksbirds.co.uk/ York Ornithological Club: http://www.tka.co.uk/yoc/index.htm An excellent site for birding in N Yorkshire with a good birding links page Malcolm Oglivie (Isle of Islay): http://www.indaal.demon.co.uk/index.html Includes information on Rare Birds Panel BRITISH TRUST FOR ORNITHOLOGY - http://www.bto.org/birdtrends/ New section on the BTO web site. It contains a species-by-species summary of all the data from CBC, WBS, BBS, NRS and CES schemes. The Annual British Bird Fair - http://www.birdfair.org.uk British Ornithologists Union - http://www.bou.org.uk RSPB - http://www.rspb.org.uk/ NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY NETWORK: http://www.nbn.org.uk/ The NBN is a union of major conservation organisations collaborating to create an information network of biodiversity data that is accessible through the Internet so start your search for info about species, sites and biodiversity projects in the UK here NATIONAL WILDLIFE TRUSTS: http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/ Since 1912 The Wildlife Trusts have been speaking out for nature in Britain. Our unique organisation is a network of 46 Wildlife Trusts, more than 150 Urban Wildlife Groups and Wildlife Watch (our junior branch). Together they cover every corner of the UK. The Dundee Satellite Receiving Station: http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/ An amazing site from University of Dundee, UK, which maintains an up-to-date archive of images from NOAA and SeaStar polar orbiting satellites. Images from geostationary satellites covering the whole earth are also available. To view the images you need to complete the on-line registration form. Registration is free and the images are free! Nature Net: http://www.naturenet.net Lots of information about all aspects of nature and conservation. Lyme Disease: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Oasis/6455/ Lyme Disease is a serious bacterial infection caused by a tick bite and affects humans and animals There are many others associated with particular businesses and accomodation which can be found by searching for Emsworth on one of the popular search engines. Here are a few to go on with: British Library: http://portico.bl.uk/ Natural History Museum: http://www.nhm.ac.uk