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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
LONDON FRIENDS OF GREEN SPACES NETWORKMost public greenspaces in Bexley do not have a Friends Group. There's a big opportunity to contribute to management, and work for more wildlife-friendly management regimes.
Drop in Q&A webinar - how to start a friends group
11th Mar 2025 12pm - 1pm - online event
For anyone interested in starting a group in their local green space or who has a new group and would like some advice or have a problem - join our drop in Q&A and we'll try to help you to get your group going and thriving. More info and sign up here:
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Q&A - how to start a parks volunteer group
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Category Archives: LHNS
Braeburn Park LNHS meeting 17th June finds over 134 invertebrate species. (Belated report….)
The London Natural History Society’s Ecology and Entomology section visit to London Wildlife Trust’s Braeburn Park site, on a hot 17th June 2017, recorded 134 species of invertebrate, with a few more yet to be formally identified, mainly comprising less … Continue reading
New plant records for Bexley, including one for ‘botanical Kent’
Rodney Burton, author of the most recent London flora, has written to report a number of interesting plant finds in Bexley, and there has subsequently been a new species for the whole of the Kent botanical recording area located in … Continue reading
London butterfly project set up to produce new distribution atlas. Bexley butterfly and moth Facebook page launched.
The London Natural History Society is calling on existing and potential new recorders to help produce a new butterfly distribution atlas for Greater London, the results of which will be compared with the last LNHS survey which was in 1980-86. Much has … Continue reading
Bexley butterfly highlights of 2015 – report
The following Bexley butterfly report has been sent to the London Natural History Society butterfly recorder for the 2016 journal, which will contain the 2015 transect count and species status reports and be published in early 2017. What follows won’t … Continue reading
LNHS experts have identified 132 species of invertebrate on Southern Marsh, including several scarcities
We have just received the final list of invertebrate species found on the southern part of Crossness at Erith Marshes at the joint meeting with Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve on 4th July, compiled by London Natural History Society experts … Continue reading
Crossness pulls level with FCM on 15 species of Odonata as Small Red-eyed Damselfly joins the list
Small Red-eyed Damselfly (Erythromma viridulum) was found at Crossness Southern Marsh (part of the remnant of Erith Marshes) on yesterday’s LNHS invertebrate meeting, a new site record, taking the Odonata species total here to 15 (though no one seems to … Continue reading
CROSSNESS – exciting range of educational wildlife events announced for the summer
From Karen Sutton – Biodiversity Team Manager, Thames Water Crossness Nature Reserve. I have arranged a diverse series of events through to September, both to showcase the fabulous range of wildlife on the site, and to provide an introduction to … Continue reading
Welling botany meeting adds probable new species to Bexley list
Rodney Burton writes: One London Natural History Society member was the only other person who turned up to this April 25th meeting! We recorded about 100 species in each of two monads. The only item of special interest was a good … Continue reading
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