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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) *
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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...
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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.
Free webinar, Tuesday, January 7th, 1 - 2pmHow Many Moths and Butterflies? The Importance of Taxonomy.
Explore the stories behind the latest checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles with Dr David Agassiz.
How Many Moths and Butterflies? The Importance of Taxonomy
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Explore the stories behind the latest checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles with Dr David Agassiz.
Tag Archives: Thames Road Wetland
Thames Road Wetland – general views and plant photos, 26/4/18
On a generally sunny afternoon there was birdsong aplenty at Thames Road Wetland, with the sound of Reed Warblers, a male Reed Bunting, 2 Cetti’s Warblers, 2 Song Thrushes, a Greenfinch and several Goldfinches prominent. Two juvenile Common Lizards were … Continue reading
Criminals perpetrate Thames Road Wetland fly-tipping outrage
Around 37 sacks of rubble, thick-sheet foam insulation board fragments and other rubbish have been fly-tipped very close to a patch of rare plant on Bexley Council-owned land at the far east end of Thames Road Wetland, some time between 11th … Continue reading
Thames21 team tackles two fly-tipping incidents by Thames Road Wetland
Local Thames21 staff and volunteers have recently been tackling two ugly fly-tipping incidents adjacent to Thames Road Wetland, with a third yet to be sorted out. The second, and largest, of these might have been avoided had Bexley Council acted … Continue reading
Contrasting Composites at Thames Road Wetland
Some of the composites (Daisy and Dandelion family – now known as Asteraceae) currently in flower at Thames Road Wetland are pictured below. Contrary to the site’s name, there are a variety of conditions, including reed-swamp and hot, south-facing dry … Continue reading
Dragonfly and damselfly survey events in Bexley – no previous experience needed to get involved!
As part of its Water for Wildlife programme, London Wildlife Trust is surveying a number of sites from July into September 2017 to record Dragonfly and Damselfly species and numbers . No particular prior knowledge is required to join in. … Continue reading
Reed Warblers back at Thames Road Wetland as Green Hairstreak shows up for 2nd year and first Damselfly seen.
As reported from other sites, Reed Warbler is back in Bexley from its African wintering grounds, and a few could be heard chuntering from out in the reedswamp at Thames Road Wetland on April 12th. A Cetti’s Warbler was present … Continue reading
Lizards and butterflies herald spring at Thames Road Wetland
So warm and sunny was it on March 15th at Thames Road Wetland that although it felt like the kind of day the Lizards would start to come out in force, they didn’t begin to show on the old tyre … Continue reading
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Tagged Comma, Lizard, Small Tortoiseshell, Snipe, Thames Road Wetland, Water Rail
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Thames21 and St. Paul’s Academy make Great British Spring Clean impact
Thames Road Wetland, the River Wansunt and the Cray along By-way 105 benefitted from the efforts of Thames21 and St. Paul’s Academy in Greenwich on March 5th, as 19 bags of rubbish (including separated recyclables), wooden pallets, items of clothing, electrical equipment … Continue reading
Thames Road Wetland Mistletoe destroyed by (probable) firewood thieves?
Some time during the first week of February two of the horizontal Poplar trunks at Thames Road Wetland were sawn up and almost completely removed from the site. Unfortunately one of these had had our only remaining Mistletoe on it, … Continue reading