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FREE Eco-MarketSaturday May 3rd 12-4p.m.
Christchurch, Bexleyheath Broadway, Bexleyheath
A variety of stallholders with a passion for their craft and protecting the planet, with a range of upcycled, natural and zero-waste products. Campbells Chutneys are joining us for the first time with not only delicious chutneys and pickles but also jam, marmalade, and chilli jam, hand made in Kent.
We'll have our Refills and Wasteless Essentials stall where you can fill up your own containers with household and personal care products.
Bring your hard to recycle packaging to recycle for charity - such as plastic wrappers, plasic bread bags, metal-ended Pringles tubes, inkjet cartridges and empty medicinal blister packs. Full
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CHARITABLE RECYCLING STATION Our Recycling Station is a drop off point for your hard to recycle items. We're diverting waste away from the incinerator and raising money for charity Recycling for chari...
UPCOMING LESNES HABITAT MANAGEMENT SESSIONS ......The first SUNDAY of each month 10am to 1pm. Meet outside CHESTNUT'S COFFEE KIOSK at 10:00 am. The group then collects tools and equipment from the yard that is opposite the toilets.
Next Sunday session will be 4th May.
Also every WEDNESDAY 10am to 1pm. Meet at the north side of the Lodge by the yard entrance.
Note: these events tend to involve fairly active work and may require walking with tools to remote parts of the woods, so a reasonable level of fitness is required.
All tools and materials provided.
Ffi: www.friendsoflesnesabbeyandwoods.com/get-involved/conservation
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EARLIEST RECORDED RETURN DATE FOR BARNEHURST SWIFT NESTING ZONE.My first check of the year was on the eveniing of 29/4, when there
were 3 Swifts circling over the northern half of Hillingdon Road. I have subsequently been told, second-hand, that local birder Harry saw two over the same road the day before. This is the same place as the first ones I saw in this area in 2024.
Previous 'first dates' for this 'site' are as follows:
2024 - 1/5. None seen in an hour of circuits on 30/4
2023 - 2/5. My first check of the year so they may have arrived earlier. One reported at Crossness 28/4
2022 -8/5 (checked from 28/4)
2021 - 6/5 (had last checked 3/5)
2020 - 2/5 (first date checked)
2019 - didn't monitor
2018 - 7/5 (had checked every evening starting 1/5)
2017 - 4/5 (no prior daily checks)
2016 - 4/5 (no prior daily checks)
2015 - 6/5 (no prior daily checks)
The earliest Swifts in London this year were one at Rainham on April 14th, and another on the same date at Staines Reservoir.
Chris Rose
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New EU faming policy to make agriculture worse for the environment
There are not a lot of farms in Bexley, but the EU Agricultural Policy certainly affects farming in the region. With 360 billion Euros of subsidies paid each year, EU policy affects a vast area with its emphasis on intensive … Continue reading
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Danson Park records for April 2014
Keeping notes of what you see, where and when is important in hleping build up a picture of the wildlife in Bexley – and in particular how it might be changing over time. John Turner has been keeping records of … Continue reading
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Wildlife Photo Exhibition Avery Hill
An interesting exhibition of wildlife photographs in the Avery Hill Winter Gardens (just into Eltham) by Bexley resident and Crossness nature Reserve member Richard Winston. Photos include local ones as well as international. The exhibition is on from Sunday 8th … Continue reading
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March weather globally and locally
Global climate; March, 2014. No records broken, but this March was amongst the warmest on record. Prime Meridian is published as part the outreach programme of the Ecospheres Project – Earth Campaign. prime-meridian01@hotmail.com http://www.ecospheresproject.wordpress.com/
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Crossness Cuckoo makes local press
The calling Cuckoo reported at Crossness by a number of BexleyWildlife readers has now been photographed and appears in this week’s News Shopper. http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/11237633.Rare_sighting_of_cuckoo_in_Erith_Marshes/
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Keats Community Farm hits funding target.
Pleased to report tha the Keats Community Farm project in Welling has exceeded its £10,000 funding target on Crowdfunder.co.uk with three days left to go. http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/keatscommunityorganics/updates/ I look forward to seeing Jack, Ed and Chrissy’s project flourish. Jonathan
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Norman Road Planning application to be considered on Thursday
Dear Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve, This Thursday (May 15th) sees the Planning Committee meeting taking place during which a decision will be taken regarding the application to build 3 industrial units on the former electricity substation site on Norman … Continue reading
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Identifying Hawthorns
Very useful video on identifying Hawthorn species from the Kent Botanical Recording Group.
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Are native plants best?
Well I was certainly ‘brought up’ on the notion that native wildflowers and trees were better for wildlife. Remember those illustrations of trees that showed the myriads of species dependent upon our native flora and the much smaller numbers supported … Continue reading
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Advance notice of RSPB indoor meetings from September
Indoor Meetings September 2014 to June 2015 These are held in Hurstmere School, Hurst Road, Sidcup beginning at 7.45pm. There is plenty of car parking space and the 229 bus passes along the road. Doors usually open around 7.15pm and there … Continue reading
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