Category Archives: River Shuttle

Friends of the Shuttle takes another step forward

Posted on 31/05/2015 by Chris Rose

Friends of the Shuttle was set up on the 9 May 2013 to protect and enhance the ecology and biodiversity of the River Shuttle.  This was made possible thanks to very generous financial help from Thames 21 which enabled the group to buy … Continue reading →

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FotS and T21 teams to tackle invasive alien in Sidcup

Posted on 18/05/2015 by Chris Rose

Friends of the Shuttle have  scheduled an extra event on Wednesday 27th May Sidcup Golf Club, Hurst Road, Sidcup, Kent. DA15 9AW. Floating Pennywort – a highly invasive non-native species (see link below for more information) – has been growing in the lakes … Continue reading →

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FotS announces additional events for Shuttle and Danson

Posted on 16/05/2015 by Chris Rose

Friends of the Shuttle, the environmental/wildlife action group for the River Shuttle, Wyncham Stream and Danson Park (the water from the lake flows into the Shuttle in Bexley Park Woods) has announced a number of additional events for the next … Continue reading →

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FotS elects to clean up Bexley Park Woods

Posted on 13/05/2015 by Chris Rose

May 7th event report: As an antidote to the general election there’s nothing better than pulling on a pair of chest waders and heading off into the river and a dozen people did just that last Thursday at Friends of the Shuttle’s … Continue reading →

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More Bexley mammal news – Weasels and Hedgehog latest

Posted on 12/05/2015 by Chris Rose

At last night’s Allotments Site Representatives meeting two people reported seeing a Weasel on their patch – Nigel O’Nions down at Love Lane by the River Shuttle in Old Bexley, a couple of weeks ago, and a lady from Stable Meadows … Continue reading →

Posted in Allotments, Bats, Bursted Woods, Foots Cray Meadows, Hall Place, Hedgehog, Mammals, River Shuttle, Weasel | Leave a comment

Revised checklist of Dragonflies and Damselflies in Bexley published

Posted on 01/05/2015 by Chris Rose

As the new Odonata (Dragonfly and Damselfly) season gets underway, the checklist of these species in Bexley, first produced by Chris Rose a year ago, has been revised and updated by the author to include new records, and has been … Continue reading →

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FoTS launches expanded programme of events: group to fill environment/wildlife action void at Danson and take on maintenance of the Old English Garden

Posted on 15/04/2015 by Chris Rose

Committee member Mandy Stevens writes:  Following our successful litter picks in and around Danson Park lake (which drains into the River Shuttle) earlier this year and last summer, we have been discussing with Bexley Council whether we could run other conservation … Continue reading →

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Conserving some of Bexley’s rare plants

Posted on 06/04/2015 by Chris Rose

The latest e-mail from the Kent Botanical Recording Group, which is producing a comprehensive register of rare plants in the county (which in this case includes that part of west Kent that is now in Greater London) called for information … Continue reading →

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Environment Forum seeks to get to root causes of poor site management. Request for underlying plans yet to be answered.

Posted on 21/03/2015 by Chris Rose

Bexley Natural Environment Forum has become increasingly exasperated with the way may open spaces in the Borough have been managed, the lack of biodiversity awareness and joined-up thinking and the obvious potential for enhancing the wildlife value of sites whilst … Continue reading →

Posted in Bexley Council, Biodiversity Action Plan, BNEF, Environment, Hollyoak Wood Park, Open spaces, Parks, River Shuttle, SINC, vegetation management, Wyncham Stream | Leave a comment

Shuttle corridor is Mistletoe magnet and Small Tortoiseshell sanctuary

Posted on 13/03/2015 by Chris Rose

On my way to the Bexley Park Woods event meeting point yesterday (March 12th) there was a Small Tortoiseshell butterfly on the Shuttle riverbank just to the west of the tree line. Afterwards another was seen by the river at … Continue reading →

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