Category Archives: Bexley

Barnehurst Golf Course butterfly bonanza

Posted on 18/07/2015 by Chris Rose

Barnehurst Golf course has a good variety of habitats, and thus a good list of butterflies, which is one of the reasons why London Wildlife Trust have recommended that it be promoted from a ‘Local’ to a ‘Grade 2’ Site … Continue reading →

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Sun shines (intermittently) on Crossness butterfly event

Posted on 18/07/2015 by Chris Rose

Karen Sutton, Biodiversity Team Manager at Crossness Nature Reserve on Erith Marshes, reports on the Wednesday 15th July butterfly identification event. We held a butterfly identification walk on Crossness Nature Reserve just before the launch of Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count … Continue reading →

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Fears for Bexley’s iconic summer birds – House Martin survey underway

Posted on 11/07/2015 by Chris Rose

Can you help conserve Swifts and House Martins? Following on from the piece about Swift’s in this week’s News Shopper, Ralph Todd has submitted the following piece to the paper. If you know of Swift aggregations or House Martin nesting … Continue reading →

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Some people pictures from last Saturday’s Crossness invertebrates event

Posted on 09/07/2015 by Chris Rose

As previously reported there was an excellent turnout of 27 – mainly locals – for last weekend’s (July 4th) London Natural History Society-led event at Crossness Southern Marsh on Erith Marshes, looking at lesser-known invertebrates. The area is part of … Continue reading →

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Birder gets on his bike to study other species

Posted on 07/07/2015 by Chris Rose

Plants, Odonata and fish photographed. From Bexley Bird Report author, Ralph Todd. Mid June-Mid July are relatively quiet times for active birdwatchers so I often pursue other avenues of natural history but keep with the flying beasties as much as possible but … Continue reading →

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East Wickham Open Space – recent plant survey results

Posted on 02/07/2015 by Chris Rose

East Wickham Open Space, north of Welling town centre, is a large site with extensive wildflower meadows, which we presume were sown at some time in the past. A good array of species persists, and the site is well worth … Continue reading →

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Ringlet butterfly now at Hollyhill

Posted on 30/06/2015 by Chris Rose

Mike Robinson has sent us a nice shot of a Ringlet butterfly taken at Hollyhill open space this June. This was an expected species, having been seen at Streamway on the other side of Brook Street last year, but the … Continue reading →

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Nuxley Road, Belvedere, a Swift hotspot

Posted on 29/06/2015 by Chris Rose

There was a spectacular and heart-warming sight of 31 Swifts over the north end of Nuxley Road in Bexley village yesterday evening around half past eight, oftentimes swooping low over the buildings. One can imagine that in the past there … Continue reading →

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Hollyhill OS, new site record and Marbled White still present

Posted on 26/06/2015 by Chris Rose

Good numbers of the two small Skipper species were present in the long grass at Hollyhill Open Space, a Grade 1 SINC,  this evening, with both Essex Skippers and Small Skippers eventually confirmed by getting close enough to a resting … Continue reading →

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Corky-fruited Water Dropwort confirmed present on Bexley part of Woodlands Farm

Posted on 26/06/2015 by Chris Rose

Rodney Burton, compiler of the 1983 Flora of the London area, was at Woodlands farm recently, and was able to confirm that Corky-fruited Water Dropwort (Oenanthe pimpinelloides) does indeed occur on the Bexley part of the farm, the greater part … Continue reading →

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