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** John Kesby, who originally helped design the university
Nature Trail, will lead guided tours of the trail on Sunday 14th July at 1600 hrs
and Monday 15th July at 1330 hrs. These will take around two hours and start from
the front of the conference marquee. Numbers on these walks are strictly limited
and those wishing to participate should email scb2002@ukc.ac.uk, using 'Nature Trail
Sunday' or 'Nature Trail Monday' as the subject line. Dr. Kesby is willing to lead
further walks on the later days of the conference, should there be the demand. **
The Nature Trail which runs through the 300 acre University campus is an irregular
circuit around the central campus area of approximately 2.5 miles or 4.6 kilometres.
The Trail includes examples of all the types of habitat which occur within the University
estate: woodlands; grasslands; wetlands and, of course, buildings. Depending on the
time of day, time of year, and which part of the Trail you walk, you may see an extensive
variety of flowers, fungi, grasses, butterflies, insects, birds and mammals. The
Trail was devised for the enjoyment of staff, students, visitors and local residents.
The Trail can be picked up at various marked points around the central campus. If
you choose to walk the whole route it can take anything from 1 to 2 hours at a brisk
walk, to a full morning or afternoon walk. If you wish, just choose to walk the Trail
in short sections. On any single day, the extensive range of species of plants, fungi
and animals will not all be seen because not all of them appear in a single season.
Below is a brief checklist of those species you are most likely to see or hear on
the walk throughout the year.
Trees: Holly; Rowan; Silver Birch; Sessile Oak.
Shrubs: Common Gorse; Bramble; Two-styled Hawthorn; Elder; Privet; Butcher's
Broom.
Climbers: Goose Grass; Woody Nightshade; Hop.
Water Plants: White Water Lily; Water Cress; Large Bitter Cress; Great Willow
Herb; Wild Angelica; Water Figwort; Brooklime; Water Mint; Canadian Pondweed; Yellow
Flag; Reedmace (Bulrush); Lesser Duckweed.
Rushes: Soft Rush; Field Wood-rush.
Sedges: Glaucous Sedge.
Grasses: Marsh Foxtail; Creeping Soft Grass; Floating Sweet Grass; Crested
Dog's Tail; Cocksfoot; Annual Meadow Grass; Rough Meadow Grass; Barren Brome; Couch.
Other Herbaceous Flowering Plants: Wood Anemone; Lesser Celandine; Cuckoo
Flower; Hedge Mustard; Hoary Cress; Field Penny; Chickweed; Perforate St. John's
Wort; Wood Sorrel; White Clover; Bird's-Foot Trefoil; Common Vetch; Silverweed; Creeping
Cinquefoil; Broad-leaved Willow Herb; Ground Elder; Cow Parsley; Moschatel; Common
Teasel; Tansy; Ragwort; Lesser Burdock; Spear Thistle; Creeping Thistle; Beaked Hawk's-beard;
Leafy Hawkweed; Smooth Hawkbit; Prickly Sowthistle; Lesser Periwinkle; Common Toadflax;
Germander Speedwell; Ground Ivy; Great Plantain; Fat Hen; Red Goose-foot; Pale Persicaria;
Curled Dock; Annual Mercury; Broad Helleborine; Bluebell; Cuckoo-pint.
Fungi: Death Cap; Meadow Wax Cap; Parrot Wax Cap; Fairy Ring Champignon; Common
Ink Cap; Stinkhorn.
Reptiles: Grass Snake.
Amphibians: Palmate Newt; Common Toad; Common Frog.
Dragonflies: Southern Aeshna.
Crickets and Grasshoppers: Common Meadow Grasshopper.
Butterflies: Speckled Wood; Painted Lady; Small Tortoiseshell; Peacock; Green-veined
White; Orange Tip; Brimstone; Essex Skipper.
Birds: Grey Heron; Mallard; Snipe; Domestic Pigeon; Stock Dove; Wood Pigeon;
Turtle Dove; Great Spotted Woodpecker; Swallow; Pied Wagtail; Wren; Whitethroat;
Lesser Whitethroat; Wheatear; Robin; Fieldfare; Long-tailed Tit; Greenfinch; Yellowhammer;
Mammals: Long-eared Bat; Short-tailed Vole; Weasel.
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