Pond Dipping

After the ponds have been cleared and fill with water, there will be a dipping platform at the large pond allowing visitors and school groups to discover what wildlife is living in the watery parts of the meadow.

Nature Reports

Hedge Sweeping

Sweep nets can be used to trawl the grasslands, hedges and air to discover what wildlife is on the meadow living on plants and flying around.

Nature Walks

Rayne Primary School have visited the Nature Reserve this spring. About 120 children have been introduced to the nature reserve and they and their teachers have gone off to create some activity projects related to the reserve.

Hosted Visits

Relocation programme

Countryside Properties have used Oak Meadow as a relocation site for reptiles that need to be safeguarded and rehoused from their local development sites.  

Countryside properties have begun to translocate reptiles from their residential development site in Takeley. So far, July 2013, a few lizards and a large number of slow worms have been introduced to Oak Meadow and transfer work will continue over the next few months. We are very grateful to Countryside Properties for their financial donation to the Nature Reserve.