Before setting up your experiment or course practical please be aware of ongoing field research at Silwood Park grounds.  The following list included marks and tags used by long and short-term experiments.

Summary of the table's contents

Mark	Location	Experiment	Duration	Description
	Nash's Field, Rookery slope, Heron's Brook Meadow, Church field, Oak wood meadow. See the iron rods map (PDF, 650KB)	LTE: Nash's Field (plots K-S) & NutNet	Permanent	Colour-coded metal rods marking plots location
	Nash's Field	LTE: Nash's Field (plots K-S)	Permanent	Wooden posts mark the corners of unfenced plots
	Several around Silwood Park	LTE: Monitoring of Blue tits nesting behaviour	Permanent	Nest boxes
	Pound Hill Field	LTE: Pond mesocosm	Permanent	Artificial ponds
	Several around Silwood Park	LTE: Monitoring of Blue tits nesting behaviour & mouse project	Permanent	Metal and plastic tags on trees
	Several around Silwood Park	LTE: Monitoring of Blue tits nesting behaviour	Permanent	Tape around tree trunks
	Nash's Copse	LTE: Mouse project	Permanent	Flag
	Around Silwood	LTE: Nash's Field (plots K-S), (plots A-F) & NutNet, Rabbit exclosures, Pound Hill disturbance timing experiment	Permanent	Wire mesh
	Nash's Copse	LTE: Mouse trapping network used by former Mouse project	Permanent	Wooden box set as trap shelter
	Nursery Field, Lower Church Field, Pond Field, Rookery Slope, Ashurst Orchard	Reptile survey (field practical)	Annually: July-October	Reptile mats
	Merten's Acres, Gunnes Hill	Below-ground carbon stocks (field practical)	Annually: July-November	Soil mesh cores
	Several locations	Invertebrate Survey	Until 2019	Car tyres
LTE = Long-term experiment

 Please contact us with any question about these marks or experiments.