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The Nightingale Experience

Butterfly Conservation Dorset Branch

Alners Gorse Nature Reserve, Hazelbury Bryan. OS MAP Ref: ST 736100

meet at 4am below the reserve entrance for a 4.30am start (or camp overnight). Back for a delicious breakfast cooked on a camp fire. This is part of a weekend of events which include moth trapping and guided walks on Sunday 1st. This site has possibly the highest concentration of Nightingales in Dorset as well as being important for several threratened butterflies and moths.

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An evening with the Nightingales at Alners Gorse Reserve

Butterfly Conservation Dorset Branch

Alners Gorse Nature Reserve, Hazelbury Bryan. OS MAP Ref: ST 736100

An evening walk to see and listen to the birds followed by a BBQ with a campfire and moth trapping if the weather is suitable.

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