Our long-serving and committed Treasurer, Nevill Brooke, and Secretary, John Gummerson, are stepping down from their roles on the FoPH Committee. On behalf of all the members of FoPH I would like to t ...
Thanks to Melanie Oxley for this picture of a Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) taken on the Heath near the boardwalk. It prefers prefers acidic soils under pine and birch trees. Be careful – it’s p ...
Have a look at the Working Parties page on our website for this season’s list of tasks, where we’ll be working, and our Generic Risk Assessment.… ...
The Winter season Sunday working parties are starting early this year – on 22nd August 2021 – dates below. See the website for more details. 2021August 22, 29September 5, 12, 19, 26October ...
Join the Petersfield Society’s Valuable Verges Zoom Forum on 12 May at7pm to find out how we could manage the 110 hectares of roadside verge inEast Hampshire, including Petersfield’s verges, to help r ...
Petersfield Town Council has started a consultation exercise on a new, comprehensive, Management Plan for Petersfield Heath which covers the period to 2025. The management plan emphasises the need to ...
This rare photo of a group of mating hornets was captured in Petersfield earlier in the month by Oliver Young. It shows two males competing to mate with a queen lying between them. Hornets mate in the ...
Our volunteers are out on the Heath again every Sunday morning come rain or shine, fully complying with Government Covid 19 guidelines. Recent work has focussed on removing bracken to encourage the sp ...
A big vote of thanks must go to Jordan Bleach and his fellow FoPH members for putting together this impressive and informative bird poster of the regular and not so regular wetland visitors to the Hea ...
Some of our regular visitors, Bee Wolf Wasps, have been busy again on the Heath. Their small holes in the sandy paths can be seen in many places, but particularly between the Pond and Heath Road. Than ...
