The London Wildlife Trust is offering a free Dragonfly and Damselfly identification and ecology workshop at Thamesmead Football Club /Crossness Nature Reserve on Saturday June 3rd, for anyone willing to do a monthly survey at a site, or join LWT’s David Courtneidge on his surveys. The practical session on the marshes will be weather-dependent.
Everyone attending will need to bring a packed lunch, water and sun cream and binoculars or cameras if they have them.
Male Broad-bodied Chaser (Photo: Ralph Todd).
Data generated will help assess the health of London’s freshwater habitats. Also, whilst we now know quite a lot about the distribution of things like birds, butterflies and dragonflies and damselflies in Bexley, this is thanks to a pretty small number of dedicated individuals. By getting involved with this project you can add to that local knowledge and start generating the population size and trends information which we are currently lacking. Crossness LNR, Footscray Meadows, Thames Road Wetland, Danson Park, Lamorbey lake, Thamesmead canals and the River Shuttle/Parish Wood park pond are all sites in the Borough that would benefit from regular monitoring.
As at 26th May there are still places available – to book please contact David Courtneidge <dcourtneidge@wildlondon.org.uk> /
call 07834 867422 .
For information about Dragonflies and Damselflies in Bexley see:
http://www.bexleywildlife.org/dragonflies-and-damselflies-in-bexley/
http://www.bexleywildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017_ThamesmeadOdonataTrainingPstr_v2.pdf
Why on earth don’t you do this in a format that will upload to Facebook or can be copied & pasted to Facebook ?
Dear Heidi, Yes, I see what’s happened here. Given that you can’t put documents in Facebook posts, and so I couldn’t use LWT’s poster ‘as is’, what I should have done is copied and pasted all the pertinent details into an ‘original’ Facebook post, instead of leaving the website to auto-post just the top paragraph and a link to itself for the rest. Creating an ‘original’ Facebook post for event reminders is what we normally do. Error on my part in this instance. Not enough sleep. Yours, Chris Rose.