To ensure this plan is successful and to help value the conservation work over the plan period the following surveys and monitoring will be carried out.
Notes to the table: c = completed
| Compartment | Survey or monitoring task | Status (Nov 2008) | Method | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 | All species butterfly transect | Active every year since 2006, plus some older records exist. | A 1.5km transect walked Apr-Sep. Data input into Transect Walker. | ||||||
| 10, 12 | Single species butterfly transect: small blue Cupido minimus | Active | A 1km transect through suitable habitat, walked May/June. Data input into Transect Walker. | ||||||
| All heath & grassland compartments | Butterfly re-introduction programme: Silver-studded bluePlebeius argus | Working group established | Survey ant populations, suitability of heath, possible donor sites, consult with Natural England and Butterfly Conservation. | ||||||
| All | Bryophyte survey | A recent (2008) application by the Nature Conservation Bureau to the ALSF fund has been successful and a full survey will be undertaken in 2010. | |||||||
| All | a) Data collection and analysis b) Set up a montitoring protocol |
Funding application to the ALSF successful. | All the biological records for Greenham and Crookham Common from the past 15 or so years will be collected, collated and converted to digitised lists. | ||||||
| All HLS areas | HLS 'Favourable Condition' monitoring | Set up by ALSF funded project above | Set up monitoring of all the prescriptions of the HLS including lowland heathland, semi-natural grassland and broadleaf woodland. (This will be set up by an ecologist as part of a successful ALSF | ||||||
| Various | Nightjar survey | Has run every June/July since 1978 | A group of surveyors records churring & flight activity across the whole site simultaneously. | ||||||
| All | Dragonfly and damselfly survey | Running annually | A thorough search of larval cases, sightings and larvae is undertaken by an ecologist every year and a report produced. | ||||||
| All | Cricket and grasshopper survey | Running annually | A systematic search, mainly using 'song' detected using a bat detector is undertaken every year and a report produced. | ||||||
| All | Bird ringing | Running annually | The Newbury District Ornithological Club (NDOC) and Bird Ringer Nigel Cleere monitor nest boxes, a bird feeding station and specific targeted birds on the common. | ||||||
| All | Amphibian survey | Running annually | Ponds surveyed to record toads, frogs and the 3 newts - Great Crested, Smooth and Palmate. | ||||||
| All | Reptile survey | Running ad hoc | Informal survey looking through heath and under refugia to record lizards, adders, grass snakes and slow worms. | ||||||
| All heathland compartments | Produce heathland mowing and scraping rotation work plan with map by 2009 | ||||||||
| All | Draw up gorse restoration and maintenance rotation work plan with map by 2009 | Use GIS layer and notes provided by Natural England for Central Lozenges (Compartments 9, 10, 11 and 12) as well as other large banks of dominant and dengerate gorse. | |||||||
| Various | Orchid protection measures | Stem the disappearance of early flowers by protecting as soon as they appear. Survey and protection of early spring flowering plants (bee orchids, green winged orchid). | |||||||
| All | Heritage survey | Survey and record HER monuments along with those not currently listed on HER records (e.g. hydrants, fuel tanks). | Various | Ponds management plan | A survey and report on all the seasonal and permanent water features on the common. |