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CALLING BUTTERFLY ENTHUSIASTSUK Butterfly Recorders' Meeting - open to anyone interested in butterflies.
Saturday 29 March 2025 from 10am to 1pm.
Zoom event. Advance booking required:
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There will be the usual update on the Butterflies for the New Millennium (BNM) recording scheme and the official 2024 butterfly population trends from the UKBMS network will be revealed. In addition to this there are two or three talks by guest speakers.
More backgrond, draft programme and video of 2024 meeting available for viewing here:
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UK Butterfly Recorders' Meeting
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Butterfly Conservation holds an annual meeting for butterfly recorders in the UK. These meetings provide a great opportunity to hear about progress with the Butterflies for the New Millennium (BNM) re...
JOIN NORTH WEST KENT COUNTRYSIDE PARTNERSHIP FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION WORK AT ST. MARY'S CHURCH, OLD BEXLEY ......Wednesday 19th March – St Mary’s Churchyard, Manor Road, Bexley, DA5 3LY
We will be cutting the grass on site and raking. Brushcutter operators will be needed.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place, otherwise 10am if meeting at the churchyard (black gates at end of Manor Road, there is limited parking on site). There are no facilities on site.
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Please remember to bring with you; suitable clothes for the weather conditions, a packed lunch and sturdy footwear. We will supply all other equipment, gloves and safety equipment and also hot drinks and biscuits throughout the day.
The work will be led by a NWKCP member of staff who will be more than happy to answer any questions that you have throughout the day. A health and safety talk will also be given at the beginning of each project. If you are planning to come out on a project for the first time this month then please let us know beforehand which day that will be.
We write a risk assessment for each task day, and a copy of this will be brought to the site and available for you to read if you wish.
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LESNES TEAM SEEKS HELP WITH REGULAR BIRD, BUTTERFLY AND BUMBLEBEE COUNTS, TO HELP PRODUCE POPULATION ESTIMATES.Could you spare a little time to translate your wildlife interests into useful data ? - see below.
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LESNES eDNA TRIAL RESULTS ....Species inhabiting an area, or moving through it, leave samples of thier DNA (eDNA or environmental DNA). This can now be sampled and a certain number of identifications can be made to species level. This can result in the finding of species not previously recorded at a site.
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WOODLANDS FARM SEEKS HELP WITH 'BIG FARMLAND BIRD COUNT' SURVEYSurvey season is upon us, with our first survey, The Big Farmland Bird Count.
David Jones has said he will lead this for me on Wednesday 19th February at 9.30am.
If you are able to join him please meet in the farmyard at 9.15 before you will head out to the fields. Please bring binoculars and you best bird spotting skills!
Hope you can make it.
Hannah Ricketts
Education Officer
<education@thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org>
The Woodlands Farm Trust
331 Shooters Hill
Welling
Kent
DA16 3RP
Tel: 020 8319 8900
Category Archives: Friends of the Shuttle
Residents revolt over Council ‘carnage’ on banks of Wyncham Stream. New row as Council describes heavy-handed management of Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation as ‘tree maintenance’.
Bexley Council is once again under scrutiny for an apparently budget-driven ‘scorched earth’ approach to vegetation management. Complaints from residents about the severity of an operation last week along the Wyncham stream, a tributary of the Shuttle, where it flows between Brookend … Continue reading
Over 2,000 Ring-necked Parakeets at Danson roost again
Eleven people attended the Friends of the Shuttle Danson Park Parakeet count on this sunny evening (Feb 17th), tallying some 2,125 birds into the roost area on the north side of the lake. Participants came from FotS, Bexley RSPB, BNEF … Continue reading
FotS announces February events, including more at Danson Park
News just in from the Friends of the Shuttle, which has several events coming up. The next FotS clean-up is on the Shuttle on Thursday 12th February. We will be meeting at Crofton Avenue at 10.30, as always please let … Continue reading
FotS Danson clear-up garners headlines
Last Thursday’s (Jan 29th) very well supported, and clearly much-needed, clean up in and around Danson lake, organised by the Friends of the Shuttle, has been reported by the News Shopper: http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/bexley/11770062.Litter_pickers_collect_68_bags_of_rubbish_from_Danson_Lake/ This event has shown, as did the one … Continue reading
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Two weeks to second FotS@Danson lake clean-up – sign up now!
Friends of the Shuttle is looking forward to its second mass litter pick of Danson Park Lake at the end of this month, after the successful ‘premiere’ last June. The water from the lake flows into the Shuttle in Bexley … Continue reading
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FotS it all about ? – a brief history of looking after Bexley’s little river.
Friends of the Shuttle (FotS) was formed in March 2013. For two years previous to this, dedicated volunteers had been working hard to keep the River Shuttle free of litter as part of a Thames21 project that was funded by … Continue reading
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The latest Friends of the Shuttle Newsletter, just published, looks back on a year of hard work and considerable achievements, as well as setting out the programme of events for the next few months, which look set to include some … Continue reading
Bexley Park Woods – nest-box scheme success
By Ralph Todd Local conservation volunteer, Duncan Devine, was joined on Wednesday 15th October by colleagues from the Friends of the Shuttle to inspect and clean the 16 nest-boxes he had built and put up with the help of local … Continue reading
Shuttle team in Bexley Woods clean-up
A beautiful Autumn morning in Bexley Woods was the setting for Friends of the Shuttle’s latest river clean. We managed to clear several significant in-stream blockages, mostly caused by large fallen tree branches trapping smaller twigs, leaves and rubbish. The … Continue reading
Friends of the Shuttle clear 20 bags of litter
Mandy Stevens reports: Friends of the Shuttle carried out another successful litter pick along the Riverdale stretch of the river on Thursday 25th September. We collected 20 bags of assorted rubbish (including 8 bags of recyclables) and assorted bits of … Continue reading