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HImalayan Balsam removal with Friends of the Cray at Crayford, Sunday 18th May.www.facebook.com/groups/5332550310104995/posts/24430636979869708/
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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
Category Archives: Bird watching
RSPB Bexley Group – Hall Place and Crayford Rough, 26th January 2016
The valuable series of walks highlighting the birdlife to be found in Bexley continued with this event at Hall Place and Crayford Rough: http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/RSPB-Bexley-Group-Walk-Hall-Place-Crayford-Rough-January-2016.pdf
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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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Red-listed Redpolls frequenting lower Cray
A close view was had of Two Lesser Redpolls half way down By-way 105 on the banks of the Cray on 20th January, feeding on Willowherb seeds. In addition, a somewhat fuzzy three-quarter rear view camera trap image captured by … Continue reading
Rare Black Redstart adopts riverside hangout in Erith
Mike Robinson has been reporting a Black Redstart hanging around beside the Thames in the Erith area off Corinthian Manorway for the past few weeks on the London Bird Club wiki. He has kindly sent us this photograph: The RSPB says ‘The … Continue reading
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Big turnout for Crossness bird walk on January 8th – full report and pictures
This event proved to be one of the most popular bird walks at Crossness on Erith Marshes, with 37 members and friends turning out to enjoy this great reserve. The recent history of Friends events at Crossness – especially where … Continue reading
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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Snipe, Green Woodpecker and Chiffchaff at Thames Road Wetland
Further winter management at Thames Road Wetland yesterday (January 9th) included knife-cutting Reedmace and several square metres of Common Reed from amongst rushes in the west end shallows. The purpose of this was to restore more of the open, shallow muddy foraging … Continue reading
Support Swanscombe Marshes – wildlife walk Sat Jan 30th 2016
Join an experienced guide for a free walk across the unique wildlife haven of Swanscombe Marshes – threatened by the proposed London Paramount ‘theme park’. This special winter walk is timed to take in the marshes at dusk, a good … Continue reading