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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
Bee aware of Hairy-legged Miners and Barnehurst Beewolfs
Ever wondered about those hundreds of little piles of sand that appear along the Erith Road margin of Bursted Woods, by the bus stop, every summer? Well, they’re back once again, and they’re the uncommon London species Hairy-legged Mining Bee … Continue reading
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Bexley by-pass? London conference on fighting road-building.
Roads to Nowhere campaigner conference – October 18th 2014 A new wave of Government ‘infrastructure’ funding, designed to drive more mindless and environmentally destructive ‘growth’, is likely to raise various mothballed road-building schemes from the dead. One such could be … Continue reading
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Friends of Crossness visit Thames Road Wetland
Eleven members of Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve, and a member of the (River) Quaggy Action Group, joined Site Manager Chris Rose on a visit to Thames Road Wetland on 30th June. The event was a follow-up to a talk … Continue reading
Late-nite Crossness-ers pleased at a newt
Nine Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve joined reserve manager Karen Sutton last night (27th June) for a second after-dark pond-dipping session at the site, this time on the Southern Marsh. DRAGON EATS DAMSEL Time flew by and we only properly examined … Continue reading
Bradley broadens horizons
After three and a half years with London waterways charity Thames21, initially as Shuttle Riverkeeper Co-ordinator, and latterly as Education Officer, Joanne Bradley (28) is taking on a new role from mid-July as Education Officer at WaterAid, an international charity … Continue reading
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FoTS@Danson lake clean-up makes a big splash
Yesterday’s (19th June) Friends of the Shuttle-led event to start removing the large accumulation of litter from Danson park lake was a big success, drawing in 23 people, including one from Maze Hill and a couple of attendees from over … Continue reading
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Lesnes volunteers start summer heathland work
Lesnes Abbey Conservation Volunteers began their summer programme of work on the rare heathland habitat in the woods on Sunday 15th June. This is the only Heather-dominated heathland left within the Borough of Bexley, and needs managing to prevent the … Continue reading
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Harvest Mouse find at Thames Road Wetland is only the second record for Bexley
Site Manager Chris Rose has found a Harvest Mouse (Micromys minutus) nest at Thames Road Wetland (10th June), which will constitute only the second confirmed record of the species in the Borough of Bexley. GiGL, the London biodiversity records centre, has … Continue reading
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Ancient woodland rarity Hypericum pulchrum procreates at Martens Grove
The ancient woodland indicator Slender St. John’s-wort (Hypericum pulchrum), rare in Bexley, has vanished from a number of local woods in living memory – such as Bexley Park and Bursted Woods – probably due to lack of coppicing, though various … Continue reading
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Return to Thames Road Wetland, and Cuckoo on Stanham Farm
There was a Cuckoo calling occasionally from the part of Stanham Farm, Crayford, that is due south of Thames Road Wetland, yesterday (June 5th) from mid afternoon to c20.35, at which time it sounded like it had moved to trees … Continue reading
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