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Norfolk Hawker dragonfly spotted in Sidcup for the first time
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Eric Brown reports on the rare Norfolk hawker dragonfly reaching Sidcup, marking a significant expansion for one of Britain’s most protected species.
Woodlands Farm meadow flower survey postponed due to heat ....The plant survey set for the afternoon of Thursday 25/6 has been rescheduled for the following Thursday - 2nd July - due to high temperature warnings. It will be at 2pm.
(See 17/6 post for location details).
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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Category Archives: Bexley Woods
RSPB Bexley Group Field Trip – River Shuttle/Bexley Park Woods – Tuesday 16th May 2017
Report from Ralph and Brenda Todd on the RSPB Bexley Group’s walk along the River Shuttle and into Bexley Park Woods on Tuesday 16th May 2017: http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/RSPB-Bexley-Group-walk-River-Shuttle-Bexley-Park-Woods-May-2017.pdf
Posted in Bexley Woods, Bird watching, River Shuttle
Tagged Bexley Park Woods, Bexley RSPB, Blackcap, Nuthatch, River Shuttle, Sparrowhawk, Stock Dove, Whitethroat
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‘Kent botany 2016’ published – interesting new Bexley records featured
Kent Botanical Recording Group’s 2016 edition of ‘Kent Botany’, compiled by Geoffrey Kitchener and detailing the most interesting and important finds during the year, includes a number of discoveries made in Bexley – which for botanical purposes falls within Vice-county … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley, Bexley Woods, Hall Place North, Kent, Plants in Bexley, Recording
Tagged Chris Rose, Geoffrey Kitchener, Gnaphalium luteoalbum, Golden Dock, Jersey Cudweed, Kent Botanical Recording Group, Kent Botany 2016, Marsh Dock, Mike Robinson, Moenchia erecta, Persicaria capitata, Pink-headed Persicaria, Rodney Burton, Rumex maritimus, Rumex palustris, Upright Chickweed, Urtica membranacea
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Friends of the Shuttle Bird Walk Report
http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Friends-of-the-Shuttle-Walk-April-2016.pdf
River Shuttle and Bexley Woods bird walk report. 5th November 2015.
RSPB Bexley Group Field Trip – River Shuttle/Bexley Park Woods – Thursday 5th November 2015 A dull, drizzly morning but 22 Group members/Friends of the Shuttle joined Brenda and I for a wander along the River Shuttle (or, as we … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley Woods, Bird watching, River Shuttle, RSPB
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Loring Parakeets take new direction. 302 birds leave Bursted Woods.
Ring-necked Parakeets gathering in trees by Loring Hall at the north end of Foots Cray Meadows have switched fly-out-to-roost direction from south-(south)-west to north-west, which will now take them to Danson Park, a new overnight roost site from late in … Continue reading
Nearly 350 Parakeets heading for Danson in Bexley Park Woods area
It’s that time of year when Ring-necked Parakeet counting comes to the fore again. On the way home from Sidcup on 9th October I got to Bexley Park Wood at 18.08. Some 349 birds were counted heading north-west towards the … Continue reading
Bexley RSPB: programme of local bird walks
The Bexley group of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is by far and away the largest wildlife/nature group in the Borough, so encouraging its members and other local residents to take a keener interest in the value … Continue reading
Ralph Todd’s Bexley Bird Report for January – June 2015 published
This latest edition of Ralph’s invaluable six monthly Bexley bird reports, covering the period January – June 2015, is now available, having been delayed whilst he works on the massive job – with volunteer assistance – of digitising older Bexley bird … Continue reading
Bexley Council has no management plan for 80% of SINCS it wholly or partly owns, reveals FOI request
80% of Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation wholly or partly owned by Bexley Council have no management plan (i.e. only 1 in 5 does), and 3 of the 6 plans that do exist expired more than 7 years ago. … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley Council, Bexley Woods, Biodiversity Action Plan, BNEF, Braeburn Park, Bursted Woods, Chalk Wood, coppicing, Crayford Rough, Crossness, Danson Park, East Wickham Open Space, Environment, Erith Marshes, Hollyhill open space, Joydens Wood, Lesnes Abbey Woods, London Wildlife Trust, Martens Grove, Open spaces, Parish Wood Park, Parks, River Cray, River Shuttle, SINC, Thames Road Wetland, Woodlands Farm
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Some Shuttle wildlife observations, June 4th – another Hairy Dragonfly range expansion?
Call it a bit mercenary, but I helped out on the BETHs stretch clean-up so I could cover a part of the river I’d not done before for the Water Vole survey I’m leading, without having to make special arrangements … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley, Bexley Woods, Bird watching, Butterflies, Crossness, Dragonflies and Damselflies, Friends of the Shuttle, Hollyoak Wood Park, Lamorbey, Marlborough Park, Parish Wood Park, Parks, Plants in Bexley, Raptors, Recording, Reptiles and Amphibians, River Shuttle, Rivers, Sidcup Golf Course, Uncategorized, vegetation management
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