Coppetts Wood Conservationists For alerts, please 'Like' our Facebook page ...........................................................................................................................… Sunday 27th May: Tour of Coppetts Wood Local Nature Reserve. Meet 2:30 pm At the entrance, at Colney Hatch Lane £2 per person, children free A CIRCULAR tour lasting 1 – 2 hours. Wear Old shoes as paths may be muddy Tour Guide – Oliver Natelson. You will see:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday 2nd June 2 pm “Holding Your Ground” Practical steps to protect your favourite Patch of ground against Unwanted Developments South Friern Library, Colney Hatch Lane N10 buses 43, 134
Speaker Oliver Natelson and other experienced campaigners lead you through pitfalls hopefully to success. Free ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday 3rd June 2:00 pm A Short Tour of the old Friern Barnet Library A tour of the outside – looking at some of its finer architectural points. Cost: £1 adults, Children free. Tour time about half an hour ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday 10th June: Bat Tour of Coppetts Wood Local Nature Reserve Meet 8:45 pm (evening) at the entrance in Colney Hatch Lane to Coppetts Wood £2 per person, children free.
To avoid over-subscribing, you must book your place on the tour by phoning (020) 8 361 2496. You must dress very warmly, bring a torch and mobile phone. Wear old shoes as paths may be muddy. Tour guide – OllieNatelson A CIRCULAR TOUR lasting 1 – 2 hours starting before sunset and ending in the dark While owls hoot, animals watch you in the darkness, bats scoot just inches above your head, Coppetts Wood is a different place at night - where you can see these wonderful but increasingly rare animals in astonishingly skilful flight paths feeding in mid-air. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday 29th July: Tour of Glebelands Local Nature Reserve Meet 2:30 pm at junction of Summers Lane & Upway. Bus 382 £2 per person, children free A CIRCULAR walk lasting about 1 hour. Wear old shoes as paths may be muddy Guide - Oliver Natelson. You will see: · Hedges planted in the reign of George IV · The former Finchley Isolation hospital · Sites of old gravel pits and brickworks for local houses. · The Nature Reserve with its rare wildlife · Site of the 1940s piggeries, allotments of the 1890s and the 1990s · The former Territorial Army Centre which started during WW1 Bring a plastic container with lid – for picking the best Blackberries in Finchley! ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Each May we hold our Woodland Festival, a very popular event with free entrance and plenty to do for all ages. To make sure you don't miss it, 'Like' our Facebook page. |