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FRONT GARDENS NETWORK. LET'S STOP DRIVING NATURE OUT OF BEXLEY (and everywhere else).The loss of front gardens to hard surfacing and ‘bland-scaping’ is adding to flood risk, health-harming heat, and nature’s decline.
Front Gardens Network meeting with presentations and discussion: Thurs 15 May, 12.30pm to 1.30pm
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Please join us for the next online meeting of the Front Gardens Network on 15 May, 12.30-1.30pm.Alice Roberts, Head of Campaigns at CPRE London, will be giving an update on action being taken around L...
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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
details at
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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
Category Archives: RSPB
Report of Bexley RSPB bird walk, Lesnes Abbey Woods, March 11th 2017
Ralph and Brenda Todd report on the birds and other wildlife seen in Abbey woods at Bexley RSPB’s walk on 11th March. Comments are made about the condition of the heathland and wildflower areas, much of the credit for which … Continue reading
Bexley RSPB members see Cattle Egret on Rainham visit
Having the Rainham RSPB reserve just over the water from Crayford Marshes increases the prospects of rarities turning up on our side of the river. Bexley RSPB members visiting on December 17th were delighted they got to see a Cattle … Continue reading
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Tagged Bexley RSPB, Cattle Egret, Pintail, Rainham Marshes
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Bexley RSPB Foots Cray Meadows 6th December bird walk – report
Ralph and Brenda Todd report on the 6th December Bexley RSPB bird walk at Foots Cray Meadows, which attracted several members new to the group’s outdoor meetings. 28 species were seen including Little Egret, Kingfisher and Gadwall. http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/RSPB-Bexley-Group-Walk-Foots-Cray-Meadows-December-2016.pdf
Bexley RSPB – report of Danson bird walk, October 27th
An illustrated report from Ralph and Brenda Todd of birds seen on the Bexley RSPB walk around Danson Park on 27th October: http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/RSPB-Bexley-Group-walk-Danson-Park-October-2016.pdf
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Tagged Bexley, Bexley RSPB, birdwatching, Brenda Todd, Danson Park, Kingfisher, Ralph Todd, Yellow-legged Gull
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Bexley RSPB visit to Thames Road Wetland
Just 6 of us turned out early on a dull morning with rain forecast, for a walk down the river Cray from Crayford town centre and around Thames Road Wetland, but it’s probably about the best number for keeping people … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley, Bird watching, Crayford, Plants in Bexley, Reedbeds, River Cray, River Wansunt, Rivers, RSPB, Thames Road Wetland
Tagged Bexley RSPB, River Cray, Thames Road Wetland
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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
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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
Key wildlife legislation needs your support – Birds and Habitats protections under threat from narrow-minded view of ‘progress’
The EU Birds and Habitats directives, which have done much to at least slow the tide of wildlife destruction in this country and abroad, are under threat from ‘revision’ at the hands of the EU Commission President who wants to … Continue reading
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Fears for Bexley’s iconic summer birds – House Martin survey underway
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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Crossness boss hopes for patter of tiny Pochard feet
Karen Sutton, Crossness Nature Reserve Site Manager and Thames Water Biodiversity Team Leader is hoping Pochard ducklings will be amongst the new arrivals at the site this spring, after Richard Spink took an excellent photo of a pair of these … Continue reading
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