Help check river pollution with the Cray/Shuttle Outflow Safari

Posted on 15/02/2023 by jonathanrooks1@outlook.com

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Dear Jonathan,

I am a project officer for the Zoological Society of London, currently running a programme looking at London’s river pollution. I just wanted to reach out to your organisation as we have a volunteer opportunity that some of your readers might be interested in.

Each year we run an Outfall Safari programme on London’s rivers, to search and assess the pollution for surface water outfalls entering the river. This year we are surveying the rivers Shuttle and Cray. I have attached a flyer with some more information and how to sign up if interested. I would be very grateful if you could share this with your members and would be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Many thanks,

Sam Facey

Wetlands and Estuaries Project Officer

Zoological Society of London

07572 840521

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Bexley RSPB Group Walk: Crossness Nature Reserve, Tuesday 31st May 2022

Posted on 05/06/2022 by Chris Rose

Report by leaders Ralph and Brenda Todd.

http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/RSPB-Bexley-Group-Walk-Crossness-May-2022.pdf

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Bexley RSPB – report of March bird/nature walk, Southmere Lake, Thamesmead former Golf Course and Thames Foreshore

Posted on 30/03/2022 by Chris Rose

Report courtesy Ralph and Brenda Todd:

http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/RSPB-Bexley-Group-Walk-Southmere-Lake-and-Thamesmead-golf-course-March-22.pdf

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Report of Bexley RSPB KWT Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve and Bough Beech Reservoir walks, February 15th.

Posted on 16/02/2022 by Chris Rose

Thanks to Leaders Ralph and Brenda Todd for the following report:

http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/RSPB-Bexley-Group-Walk-Sevenoak-Wildlife-Reserve-February-2022.pdf

 

 

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Friends of Crossness Nature Reserve bird walk report, 22nd November 2021

Posted on 03/12/2021 by Chris Rose

Report of November’s bird walk at Crossness, courtesy Ralph and Brenda Todd and Site Manager Karen Sutton:

http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Bird-walk-Friends-of-Crossness-November-2021.pdf

 

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KAREN CALLS FOR CROSSNESS PHOTOS

Posted on 17/04/2021 by Chris Rose

Thames Water is looking to promote and celebrate the wildlife sites, such as Crossness, that it manages within its estate.

Site Manager Karen Sutton says: ‘Many of you send us your beautiful photos from around Crossness Nature Reserve and Southern Marsh, and we love seeing the unique moments you capture.​ So we’re putting out a call for photography to the people who know the sites best – you.​

We’re particularly looking for images that capture the beauty of Crossness. This might be views across the water, through the woods or your favourite spot for bird watching. We want to see what makes the site such a special place to visit and this will be unique to you.

Please read through the briefing document (below) which outlines how to submit your photos, where they might be used, and important information about how we process your personal data.

Please submit your images to the email address provided in the briefing document (and feel free to cc me <karen.sutton@thameswater.co.uk> so that I can access them for potential use in the Crossness News distributed to members) by Monday 26th April – we can’t wait to see what you capture.’

http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Live-Wild-photography-brief_.pdf

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Birds of Bexley publication – comments sought on early draft

Posted on 10/03/2021 by Chris Rose

Bexley RSPB stalwart Ralph Todd is hard at work on a book entitled ‘Birds of Bexley’, covering the birds recorded in the Borough primarily during the period from 1935 to the present. Indeed he ceased production of his six-monthly, then annual Bexley Bird Reports in order to concentrate on this project. The draft so far is posted below. The content is being set out in pretty much the same way as in the annual London Bird Reports of the London Natural History Society. He is interested in receiving comments on presentational style, some of the more detailed data to include or leave out, the individual species profiles written up so far and other aspects of the publication. More detail on the matters upon which he is seeking guidance are set out in the document itself. Please send any thoughts direct to him at <rrtodd@hotmail.co.uk>

 

http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Birds-of-Bexley-book-draft-March-5th-2021.pdf

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New count at Danson Parakeet roost

Posted on 20/11/2020 by Chris Rose

The news that Ring-necked Parakeets in Bexley had switched from flying out to roost sites at Hither Green Cemetery, Sutcliffe Park or Brockwell Park, to spending the night in Poplars by the lake at Danson Park, was reported on ‘Bexley Wildlife’ in December 2014, with the evidence indicating that the change had happened at some point during that year . Although several counts have been made in the meantime, it is a while since the last one. Ralph Todd provides a November 2020 update, plus lists of other bird species in the park this month.

http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Danson-Park-Ring-necked-Parakeet-Roost.pdf

 

 

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Bexley RSPB walk at Lamorbey Park on 18th February

Posted on 20/02/2020 by Chris Rose

Ralph and Brenda Todd have provided this report of Bexley RSPB’s local birdwatching walk at Lamorbey and the Glade on 18th February. Peregrine Falcon, Nuthatch, Goldcrest and Redwing were amongst the species encountered.

http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RSPB-Bexley-Group-Walk-Lamorbey-Park-February-2020.pdf

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Bexley RSPB Hall Place/Crayford Rough 16th January birdwatching walk report.

Posted on 04/02/2020 by Chris Rose

Buzzard and Stonechats were highlights of this Hall Place/Crayford Rough walk.

http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/RSPB-Bexley-Group-Walk-Hall-Place-and-Crayford-Rough-January-2020.pdf

 

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