Meetings
Meetings are held from September to May at Mead Hall, East Lane, Wheathampstead, Herts, AL4 8BP from 8pm to 10pm. Please park in the public car park in East Lane which is free. Come and meet other members and enjoy our varied programme of talks. Tea, coffee and biscuits are available at each meeting. You may also join the Group at any of these meetings.
This is an environmental day. Help needed, if you are a member and can help with this event please email info@hmbadgergroup.org.uk This month Pete Butchers (HMBG) describes the fascinating wildlife and beautiful landscapes of Argentina. A talk by Roy Woodward, Recorder for the Herts Natural History Society A talk by Trevor Williams of The Fox Project. For more information please go to their website here. Meet in the car park on the north side of the road. We will be having a stall to promote badgers and we will have sales goods available Dr Jenny Jones will be describing how our sett records are used. Come along to buy from a wide range of varieties We will have a stall at the weekly St Albans market Caroline Huxtable from the local rescue centre Wildlife Welfare will be our speaker Wildlife Liason Officer Jos Bartlett will be our speaker The local horticulturalist Neil Holmes-Smith will be our speaker. map of badger group picnic site If unsure about location, please telephone the chairman or vice-chair. Peter Oakenfull - local award winning conservationist to speak on 'Central Herts Green Corridor Group' and protecting the wildlfe corridor. Please see our Facebook page for details. 'Wildlife Photography' :Graham Ford and Ron Workman. Other photographic contributions welcome over coffee (on a memory stick,please) Badger Group seasonal mulled wine and mince pies.... festive cheer and maybe a quiz. Mary Barton ' Medicinal and Culinary Uses of Wild Plants' Peter Martin, Chair Badger Trust - badger update!. Come along to have your say in how the group operates for the next year. If we finish early we normally adjourn to the local pub'. If you have never seen a badger alive, contact us for an escorted watch. Pre-booking is essential as numbers in the hide are limited. You may see other local wildlife too. Come along to the St Albans market to support our local group. If you have never seen a badger alive, contact us for an escorted watch. Pre-booking is essential as numbers in the hide are limited. You may see other local wildlife too. Zoe will be leading this activity If you have never seen a badger alive, contact us for an escorted watch. Pre-booking is essential as numbers in the hide are limited. You may see other local wildlife too. Frank Wood will be leading this activity. Prior booking essential. Contact a group member or come along to one of our meetings or events to sign up. Come and try to see some bats and we may even hear them with our bat detectors! Brian and Jenny will be leading this activity. Come and listen to Steve Thompson from John O 'Gaunt Golf Club, who has worked for 25 years creating an award winning wildlife-friendly envi Come along to buy apples and support your local badger group. Come and listen to Dr Richard Meyer, Author 'Fate of the Badger' and badger expert Come and listen to Mary Barton - the folk lore of trees Seasonal Social with mince pies, mulled wine and our own Marcella Randall on the River Bean conservation project. Mike Clark ‘Badgers’ and ‘Eileen Soper’s diaries’ Mike Huskisson Author & Anti-blood sports campaigner Professor Malcolm Bennett will be coming from Nottingham University to speak to us Come along to hear a review of the year and have your say about what we should do in the coming year: there may even be an opportunity to join our committee! Meet in the car park in time to walk together down to the hide. You will need to be able to sit quietly on some garden chairs for a couple of hours Meet in the car park in time to walk together down to the hide. You will need to be able to sit quietly on some garden chairs for a couple of hours The badger group will have a stall. Please come and help out. Meet in the car park in time to walk together down to the hide. You will need to be able to sit quietly on some garden chairs for a couple of hours Meet in the car park in time to walk together down to the hide. You will need to be able to sit quietly on some garden chairs for a couple of hours Dominic Dyer, CEO Badger Trust, will be coming to give us a badger update Try to do something to help badgers Come along to Tewin Orchard to see our stall at the annual apple day. You can buy some apples from the orchard too. Derek Gibbons from Herts and Middx Conservation will be giving us a talk. The symposium this year is just one day. Use the link to the Badger Trust to find out more. Come along for a festive social with a surprise speaker! Peter Oakenfull will be speaking about her badgers. Our patron Michael Clark will be talking about his local clan. Wood warden Ian Flack will be giving us a talk on the updated Herts Mammal, Amphibian and Reptile atlas. We are going to the Herts and Middx Wildlife Trust event at the university of Hertfordshire to hear Tony Juniper talk. He is shortlisted to be New Chair of Natural England. You will need to get tickets via the HMWT website. Come along to have your say in how the group is run. There are always opportunities to help the badgers. We normally go to the local pub' after the AGM. Booking required. Please email chriswood236@gmail.com Booking required. Please email chriswood236@gmail.com Booking required. Please email chriswood236@gmail.com We will hear about the campaign against grouse shooting amongst others We will have mince pies and mulled wine for those who celebrate yuletide