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LESNES ABBEY WOODS - WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SESSIONSEvery Wednesday 10am to 1pm. Meet at the north side of the Lodge by the yard entrance.
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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: February 2nd.
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 see:
www.friendsoflesnesabbeyandwoods.com
Join a group of volunteers working around the site to improve the habitat and encourage biodiversity.
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Saturday 25 January 2025 – RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, Hall Place 10:30 – 13:00Come and join members of Bexley RSPB to learn more about birds and get birdwatching tips. This could be an opportunity to sort out your Fieldfare from your Redwing, Song Thrush and Mistle Thrush and so on.
Sightings will add to the national pool of data which is used to determine population trends in our commoner bird species - but there's always a chance of seeing something a bit more unusual.
There will be a walk at 11am and possibly midday (if required).
No need to book.
Leaders Nicky Wilson, Stuart Banks, Martin Burke, Harry Halstead and other members of the group
** Join a Crossness Nature Reserve Winter Walk - with Save Crossness Nature Reserve campaigners **Saturday 25 January - 10.45am - 12.30am (approx) *
www.facebook.com/events/625232173190262
Meet at 10.45am outside Belvedere Station at the Dartford/Kent bound Platform 2 exit.
Look out for J D Swann with a large rolled up banner! (Location:
what3words.com/dads.words.cable ). We will walk to the Norman Road kissing gate entrance (Location: what3words.com/guises.relate.secure for 11am.
We will then walk across Norman Road Field to the reserve to unfurl the Save Crossness Nature Reserve banner. We will then walk the reserve, including to the protected area, normally only accessible to Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve members, and the two-storey bird hide.
The walk is oreganised by Save Crossness Nature Reserve and Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve, who oppose Cory Energy’s application to build a Carbon Capture plant on 11.7% of Crossness Nature Reserve.
The public examination of the application is in progress and you can see all the documents here:
national-infrastructure-consenting.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/projects/EN010128
Cory's scheme threatens waterways where Water Voles (Britain’s fastest declining mammal) live and where Britain’s rarest bee, the Shrill Carder Bee is found, it is also where passage migrant birds Wheatear, Stonechat and Whinchat are frequently seen.
This is a free event and all are welcome, whether actively involved with the campaign or not. Wrap up warm / dry for January weather. It could be muddy / wet especially across the Norman Road Field, so waterproof footwear is recommended.
Find out more on the Save Crossness Campaign:-
www.savecrossnessnaturereserve.org
Donate to Save Crossness Nature Reserve’s legal challenge:
www.crowdjustice.com/case/scnr/
Sign the Petition (Change.org):
www.change.org/p/stop-cory-energy-building-on-crossness-nature-reserve-in-bexley-support-the-camp...
www.change.org
Stop Cory Energy building on Crossness Nature Reserve in Bexley - Support the Campaign!
RECYCLING FOR CHARITY DROP-OFFWednesday 15th January, 11.00-13.00
Bexleyheath Library, Townley Rd.
Monthly opportunity to bring hard-to-recycle plastics for recycling in aid of charity.
Since 2020 we have raised over £575 for the Air Ambulance Charity and saved over 540 kg of plastic from incineration, thanks to our supporters!
Accepted items:
🍪Biscuit, cake and cracker wrappers
👉🏽Bras - any condition
🍞Bread and bakery product bags and wrappers - plastic only
👉🏽Broken plastic food storage boxes and reusable plastic drink bottles
🧀Cheese packaging (washed and dried please)
🫧Laundry & dishwasher tablet & pod pouches, household wipe packets, cleaning spray heads
💊Medicine blister packs (not for charity)
👉🏽Plastic milk bottle lids
📨Used postage stamps
👉🏽Pringles tubes - no lids - only the ones with metal ends
🖨️Printer cartridges - inkjet only, no packaging
Please separate your recycling into the above categories.
For more details, and charities supported, please visit our website wastelessmarket.com/recycling.
Please message us if you can't make the date - do not bring the recycling to the library at any other time.
Category Archives: Erith Quarry
Erith Quarry – work begins without Bexley Council’s promised consultation on biodiversity ‘management plan’
Bexley Council has failed to fulfil its written undertaking to consult Bexley Natural Environment Forum and London Wildlife Trust, prior to construction works beginning, about the biodiversity management plan for what little will be left of the important Erith Quarry … Continue reading
Erith Quarry – a response to ‘developer’ spin in the online News Shopper article
Reference the news Shopper’s latest Erith Quarry article: http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/14762148.Hundreds_of_snakes_and_lizards_ca/ It’s very disappointing to see that an old, rather selective, photo giving the impression that the quarry site is an unkempt rubbish dump has been wheeled out again to contrast with the ‘developer’s’ artist’s … Continue reading
GLA committee seeks views on ‘growth’ vz environment – by 18th September
The Greater London Assembly Environment Committee is seeking evidence on the environmental pressures of London’s growth, focussing on: Energy supply, demand and distribution Water management Green infrastructure Deadline Friday 18th September. For details see: http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor-assembly/london-assembly/investigations/environmental-pressures-of-londons-growth There are already several examples … Continue reading
Bexley Council will still have your concerns at heart after you’re no longer with us ………
It’s good to know Bexley Council will continue to studiously pay attention to our interests once we’re no longer alive, as implied by this banner at Erith Cemetery, but ‘listening to you, working for you’ is, perhaps, somewhat beyond even … Continue reading
Hollyhill OS, new site record and Marbled White still present
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
Home straight for Bexley SINC review?
The deadline for comments on the final draft of the 2013 Bexley Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation review document was about 16 months ago, so Bexley Natural Environment Forum recently wrote to Bexley Council asking when we could expect … Continue reading
More research shows lighting negatively impacts Bats – BNEF says Bexley’s proposed budget-driven lighting cuts present an opportunity to tackle the problem
New research has shown that the Common Pipistrelle Bat, often found in urban areas, has its foraging and thus feeding activity disrupted and constrained by artificial lighting, especially where there are larger gaps in tree cover: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3111115/Bats-disappearing-cities-Artificial-lights-creating-ecological-dead-zones.html Bexley Natural Environment … Continue reading
Posted in Andersons Group, Bats, Bexley Council, BNEF, Budget, Bursted Woods, Consultations, Environment, Erith Quarry, Light pollution, Mammals, SINC
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Getting to grips with plant characteristics at Crossness
Yesterday (May 20th) , Tony Wileman, from the London Wildlife Trust, came to Crossness Nature Reserve to educate us on the wonderful world of wildflower identification. Twelve people braved the dark skies and unexpected showers and learned tonnes by doing … Continue reading
‘Developer’ Andersons to cram Erith Quarry reptiles into less than half the required space
Under pressure from sharply critical submissions by Bexley Natural Environment Forum and London Wildlife Trust, the Anderson Group, which is seeking permission from Bexley Council to build over 75% of the 22ha Erith Quarry, a Grade 1 Site of Importance … Continue reading
Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation report ‘in the long grass’ for over a year – is Bexley taking biodiversity seriously?
Having recently been subject to considerable criticism over its vegetation management on sensitive wildlife sites, we would normally welcome Bexley Council’s apparent enthusiasm for some long grass, but not when it is (metaphorically) being used as a repository for the … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley Council, BNEF, Budget, Danson Park, Erith Quarry, Land sales, London Wildlife Trust, Open spaces, Planning, SINC
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