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UPCOMING WOODLANDS FARM WILDLIFE SURVEYSA few more dates for the diaries:
Thursday 25th June, 2pm - Meadow Plants Survey
Wednesday 8th July, 9.30pm - Bat Survey
Friday 10th July, 2pm - Bee Walk
Please let me know if you are able to attend these, especially if coming to the bat
survey.
Thank you.
Hannah Ricketts
Education Officer
Working Days: Monday and Wednesday - Friday.
The Woodlands Farm Trust
331 Shooters Hill
Welling
Kent
DA16 3RP
Tel: 020 8319 8900
Danson wildlife walk, 28/6. Pre-booking essential. Not sure if still places left, but may be worth asking if there's a 'substitutes' list if places all nominally taken ....
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FRIENDS OF FOOTS CRAY MEADOWS - LITTER PICK, SATURDAY 6th JUNE.FFCM run a litter clearance session on the meadows on the first Saturday of each month. The next one is on 6th June starting at 10a.m.
For details see:
Community litter pick on the meadows | Foots Cray Meadows
www.footscraymeadows.org
Being the first Saturday of the month, on 6 June the Information Centre will be open from 10.00 until about 13.00 during which time we plan to do a litter pick on the meadows. Volunteers are welcome a...
WOODLANDS FARM - BEE SURVEY WALK POSTPONEDWith the weather being rather wet and unpredictable I have decided to cancel the bee walk tomorrow (4th June).
It has been rescheduled to Wednesday 17th June.
Hopefully see you then.
Hannah Ricketts <education@thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org>
Education Officer
Working Days: Monday and Wednesday - Friday.
The Woodlands Farm Trust
331 Shooters Hill
Welling
Kent
DA16 3RP
Author Archives: Chris Rose
Marsh Harrier seen over Thames Road Wetland as Peregrine perches on nearby pylon
The Marsh Harrier, once extremely rare in the UK, has made something of a comeback. Following a report of a female in the area on March 10th by Ian Stewart, I also saw a female fly low over the site … Continue reading
Brimstone seen as Braeburn bids to launch butterfly transect counts
Leslie Williams, of the London Natural History Society, who is leading the group’s project to update the mapping of butterflies in London during 2016, came over to Crayford on 12th March to meet London Wildlife Trust’s Braeburn Park Manager, Shaun … Continue reading
‘Bexley Wildlife’ welcomes 500th Facebook page ‘like’
‘Bexley Wildlife’ website’s sister Facebook page took two years to reach 400 ‘likes’, but in the last two months has accrued another 100 followers to reach a total of 501. Jonathan Rooks, co-founder of the ‘Bexley Wildlife’ web platforms said … Continue reading
FotS steps up Danson wildlife and environmental action
The Friends of the Shuttle is stepping up its wildlife activity and hands-on environmental work at Danson Park during 2016. The lake drains into the Shuttle in Bexley Park Woods. Besides fortnightly maintenance sessions in the Old English Garden, there … Continue reading
Posted in Danson Park, Friends of the Shuttle, Volunteering
Tagged Danson Park, FotS, Friends of the Shuttle, Old English Garden
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Circling Buzzard is highlight of Thames Road Wetland visit
A Buzzard seen very high over Stanham Farm as I walked along RiverCray By-way 105 towards Thames Road Wetland, was the avian highlight of a visit to the site yesterday afternoon (March 3rd). After slowly circling for a while, and … Continue reading
Posted in Bird watching, Thames Road Wetland, Thames21
Tagged Buzzard, Chiffchaff, Common Lizard, Thames Road Wetland, Thames21, Water Rail
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GLA election an opportunity to press case for parks and open spaces
The London Parks and Green Spaces Forum, in conjunction with the London Green Spaces Friends Groups Network, is calling on Friends groups and the wider public to use the upcoming London elections to speak out for London’s parks and green … Continue reading
Posted in GLA, Parks
Tagged budget cuts, GLA elections, greenspae, open spaces, parks
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Skylark and Corn Bunting spotlight – species in serious UK decline are now under threat in Bexley
Skylarks and Corn Buntings are both farmland bird species of the highest UK conservation concern due to major declines in recent decades. Current planning applications in Bexley threaten to make this worse. According to the RSPB the Skylark population halved during … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley, Bird watching, Crayford Marshes, Crossness, development threat
Tagged Corn Bunting, Ecology Solutions, London Wildlife Trust, railfreight, red-listed, Roxhill, Skylark
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Bexley butterfly highlights of 2015 – report
The following Bexley butterfly report has been sent to the London Natural History Society butterfly recorder for the 2016 journal, which will contain the 2015 transect count and species status reports and be published in early 2017. What follows won’t … Continue reading
Quicker objection to Crossness Borax fields plan – download this letter and add personal comments at bottom ….
If you haven’t got round to joining the more than 200 people who have already made out an objection to Cory ‘Environmental’s’ plan (they’re the incinerator people) to destroy the only nesting habitat on Erith Marshes for red-listed Skylark, which … Continue reading
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David Lindo, the ‘Urban Birder’, backs campaign to save Skylark fields at Crossness
David Lindo, TV personality and conservationist, who has come to prominence as ‘The Urban Birder’, and fronted the recent poll to select Britain’s ‘national bird’, has spoken out about the poor signal building on important wildlife habitat adjacent to the … Continue reading