Ecological Calendar

Ecological Surveys and
Assessment

Mitigation and Biodiversity Enhancement

• Feasibility
• Phase I Habitat
• Badger – sett
• Badger – bait marking
• Bats – preliminary of built structures
• Bats – trees
• Bats – activity and emergence
• Barn Owl
• Birds – breeding
• Birds – Vantage Point
• Dormouse – nest tube method
• Great Crested Newt – Habitat Suitability Index Assessment
• Great Crested Newt – waterbody presence/absence
• Great Crested Newt – terrestrial presence/absence
• Hedgerow
• Invertebrate – aquatic
• Invertebrate – terrestrial (from mid-April)
• Otter
• NVC – woodland only (from mid-April)
• Red Squirrel – visual transect and drey survey
• Reptile
• Water Vole

• Artificial Badger sett creation
• Clearance of tree, scrub, hedge and woodland* – sensitive approach required due to bird nesting season
• Dormouse capture and translocation
• Great Crested Newt exclusion fencing and pit traps
• Great Crested Newt translocation
• Habitat and plant translocation
• Planting and seeding
• Reptile exclusion fencing
• Reptile translocation
• Water Vole Exclusion and Fencing
• Water Vole trapping and translocation
• Winter Clearance of Dormouse habitat – first phase*
• Work affecting bat maternity roosts – supervised removal or modification of roost features
• Work affecting bat summer roosts -supervised removal or modification of roost features