Booking required - Lunchtime Wildlife Walk across Chobham Common with Michael Jones of TBHP

This walk starts at 12.30 - don't forget to eat before you come and bring extra food with you to sustain you on the walk. 

A leisurely paced walk across the heathland of Chobham Common exploring the heathland habitat.  The walk will be led by Michael Jones, Education and Engagement Officer or the Thames Basin Heaths Partnership.  Michael has led walks for us before which have been justly very popular.  He’ll talk about how heathland came to be, how people have used it to survive throughout history, conservation and some of the threats the landscape faces.

We'll hopefully come across a variety of plants and wildlife, If the weather is on our side, we will encounter lots of invertebrates (including solitary bees, butterflies, dragonflies), a range of birds and a number of key heathland plants (heathers, gorse, broom, plus smaller flowering plants like Tormentil, Lousewort and Heath Speedwell)  If we’re really lucky, we’ll spot Dartford warblers, woodlarks, perhaps, birds of prey, a tree pippit and a reptile or two!

The walk will be around 3 miles and will last between two and a half and three hours commencing at 12.30 pm with a few gentle inclines – if you have binoculars please bring them with you.

The maximum number of ramblers on the walk is 15.  Booking is open to Woking Ramblers  members until 22nd May, just text Rosie H to book.    From 23rd May members of other Ramblers groups may book again by texting Rosie H.  Please don't arrive at the walk without checking first that there is a space for you.