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Join UPM Tilhill and the RSPB on 28 May 2011

For the Coed Llandegla Family Wildlife Day from Dawn till Dusk and beyond!

• Come and spend the day searching out the wildlife of the forest with the experts.
• Booking is essential and can be arranged via the RSPB Tel: 029 2035 3008.
• Entry is free, but we would like to recommend a donation to RSPB of £2.50 per person for the dawn and evening walks.
• Stout footwear, warm clothing, waterproofs and insect repellent are recommended.
• Children are welcome but must be accompanied by an adult.
• Car parking £3.50 (retain ticket if you are going to leave and return).
• All walks start from the Coed Llandegla Visitor Centre.

The itinerary
05:00-8:30: Dawn Walk – Black grouse and dawn chorus.
Book Early – Limited places.

Walk through the forest as it is waking up, listening for sounds of the birds with expert RSPB Staff. Watch the black grouse display from the hide then walk back through the forest listening to all the bird song.
08:30-10:00: Breakfast – charged separately.

10:00-12:00: Reptile walk – Mick Brummage – Booking essential.
Take a walk through the forest with Mick to learn about the cold blooded inhabitants of the forest. Help us find and identify our scaly friends! On the way back to the visitor centre help us build some cosy homes for invertebrates (habitat piles) from forest timber.

If you are going to stay for lunch please make your order before the next event.

12:00-13:00: Tree planting – Meet at the Visitor Centre – Booking essential.
Help us plant an area of natural reserve woodland behind the visitor centre. We’ll
plant a mixture of native local provenance trees. Bring a spade, gloves and stout
footwear.

13:00-14:00: Lunch – charged separately.
14:00-16:00: Forest walk – An insight into a Welsh working forest.
An opportunity to take a guided walk with an expert forester and learn how UPM Tilhill delivers a financially sustainable timber resource. The theme of the walk will include how UPM Tilhill improve biodiversity through forest restructuring. Find out which woodland management systems UPM Tilhill operate, how these affect the look and feel of the forest and how we work in partnership with the RSPB. Check out www.upmforestlife.com||.

18:30-19:30: Dinner – charged separately.
20:00-23:00: Bats, owls, moths and nightjars.
Join the RSPB for a walk as daylight fades to find out what flies around the forest at night time. We will leave moth traps in the car park and take bat detectors with us in order to work out which bat species we can hear. When we reach the clearfell area we will wait and listen to hear the churring of nightjar and maybe owls too! When it is too dark to see we will return to the car park to see what the moth traps have caught (torches are provided but you might like to bring your own). N.B. This event will end late!

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