Specialist field support
Experienced surveyors, rapid mobilisation, and dependable reporting with travel billed transparently from our Newbury hub.
Compliance note: EchoSight is not a reptile licence holder. Field labour is delivered under your named ecologist, licence permissions, and approved RAMS supplied by the client.
We integrate mobilisation, fieldwork, and reporting so your mitigation advice and licence submissions stay on track.
We review your scope, confirm habitat coverage, and prepare health & safety documentation so survey days start smoothly.
First-aid trained ecologists undertake refugia checks, spotlighting, and transects in line with your method statements.
Notes, weather data, and capture records are compiled within 48 hours, ready to slot into your written reports and mitigation plans.
Teams are based from our Newbury hub with travel billed transparently at £0.45 per mile plus £33 per hour for travel time. We routinely deliver across Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, and neighbouring counties with allowances agreed in advance, including overnight arrangements where required.
Talk to us about phased developments or multi-site programmes—we will build a timetable that keeps your fieldwork efficient and compliant.
Evening and dawn refugia checks combined with encounter transects to confirm baseline presence across suitable habitat parcels.
Structured multi-visit programmes capturing effort, weather, and abundance data for robust relative population grading.
Daily pitfall trap checks, holding area monitoring, and welfare reporting to support licenced ecologists.
Winter checks of potential hibernacula, log piles, and refuges to inform mitigation and soft-strip plans.
Every proposal is tailored to your site. Guide figures below follow the 2026 rate card: reptile fieldwork at £33/hr with travel billed from Newbury at £0.45 per mile plus £33 per hour for travel time.
| Survey support package | What is included | Guide price (from) |
|---|---|---|
| Single visit – presence / likely absence | Lead ecologist (solo delivery) for evening or dawn refugia checks (1.5–2 hrs), weather logging, and travel billed separately. | £50–£70 + Travel |
| Half-day reptile support | 4-hour visit for refugia checks, encounter logging, and progress updates; ideal for population class assessments or multi-parcel sites. | £132 + Travel |
| Full-day reptile presence | 8-hour field day covering translocation support, extended checks, incident logging, and welfare monitoring. | £264 + Travel |
| Hibernacula inspection support | Hand searching & endoscope footage with geo-referenced notes (typically 1.5–2 hrs on site). Travel billed separately. | £50–£70 + Travel |
| Package | What’s Included | Key Deliverables | Price (no VAT to add) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single visit – presence / likely absence | Lead ecologist (solo delivery) for evening or dawn refugia checks (1.5–2 hrs), weather logging, and travel billed separately. |
|
£50–£70 + Travel |
| Half-day reptile support | 4-hour visit for refugia checks, encounter logging, and progress updates; suitable for population class assessments or larger sites. |
|
£132 + Travel |
| Full-day reptile presence | 8-hour field day covering translocation support, extended checks, incident logging, and welfare monitoring. |
|
£264 + Travel |
| Hibernacula inspection support | Hand searching of log piles and potential hibernacula, endoscope footage capture, and georeferenced note-taking (typically 1.5–2 hrs on site). |
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£50–£70 + Travel |
Share your project brief, site constraints, and preferred dates. We will confirm availability, agree the scope, and return a written quote within one working day.
