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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.There were 3 Swifts circling over the northern half of Hillingdon Road this evening (29/4), the same place as the first ones I saw in this area in 2024. This was my first check of the year, so they could have got back even earlier.
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
HELP CLEAN UP THE LOWER RIVER CRAY !Join FRIENDS OF THE CRAY AT CRAYFORD on FRIDAY 2nd May
to tackle litter along the banks of the lower Cray,
Meet 10 a.m. at the junction of Footpath 106 and Barnes Cray Road (see graphic below).
The plan is to go downriver along By-way 105 this week before the undergrowth gets too dense.
All welcome, no particular skills needed.
Equipment will be provided. Wear appropriate clothing for being out in the open and avoiding stings from Nettles and scratches from Brambles, and bring something to drink.
Best wishes
Sarah
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Guide to thrushes in Bexley
http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Species-Spotlight-thrushes-Joe-J.pdf
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Foots Cray Meadows bird walk January 5th 2016
Report from the first of two bird walks led by Ralph and Brenda Todd last week. http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/RSPB-Bexley-Group-Walk-Foots-Cray-Meadows-January-2016-with-pics.pdf
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Sidcup Garden Project Nov/Dec 15 Newsletter
http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/SGP-News-letter-Nov-Dec-2015.pdf
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Crossness Reedbed Work Party 11th November
Dear Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve, Attached is a picture of my two faithful volunteers, Reg and Roger, sitting down. Yes, sitting down! Mid-task!! This has never happened before!!! They have been incredibly busy cutting reeds around the wader … Continue reading
Help for Hedgehogs
Advice from HedgehogStreet.org on helping hedgehogs this autumn. http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/A-Z_Hedgehog-Help.pdf http://www.hedgehogstreet.org/pages/free-autumn-a-z-of-tips.html?dm_i=PAJ,3QRQT,CHSU9S,DH3X5,1
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Closing date approaches for River Cray job
Closing date of this Friday. We’ve previously promoted this role with the important local River Cray project, here it is again in case you are still thinking about it. *** Work on the River Cray is expanding and as a … Continue reading
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Michael Heath’s October Thames21 blog
Time to put your thermals on and join us on the River Cray Posted on October 15, 2015 on the Thames 21 webpage. The Thames21 River Cray project has been active during the late summer and early autumn well done to … Continue reading
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Planting wildflower seed
Advice from Gill Watson from Landlife Wildflowers Gill demonstrates the very best way to sow your wild flower seed in this ‘how to’ YouTube video. A Question & Answer session follows the demonstration.
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Bling attracts Crows.
It’s supposed to be Magpies that are attracted to bright shiny things, but Saturday morning saw around 50 Carrion Crows gathered (very noisily) on the roof of Sidcup’s The Fold, known locally as the Bling Palace. Around 50 birds were … Continue reading
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