The meadow in Dog Kennel Hill Open Space was scythed yesterday by two members of the Friends group. The grass had grown rather long and then it had rained which meant that the meadow grass was lying in lots of different directions and was quite hard to scythe! It took a few sessions but we … Read more
We had our annual Spring Walk this morning with the Friends of Green Dale, led by Daniel Greenwood of the London Wildlife Trust. It will be his last walk with us sadly as he is off to a new job in the South Downs National Park. To mark his many years’ of support for our … Read more
Our annual Spring Walk takes place this year on Sunday 15th April. Meet by the picnice benches in DKH Open Space. It will include Green Dale fields again and is led by Daniel Greenwood of the London Wildlife Trust.
Today we met up with some bat experts to talk about plans for DKH Open Space. Jo Ferguson from the Bat Conservation Trust, Alison Fairgrass and Becky Wilson both from the London Bat group kindly walked round and discussed ways we could improve the habitat for bats. The first thing we need to do is … Read more
This morning we met with Robert Roach from Southwark’s parks department. His official title is Contract and Services Manager and he’s our main contact at Southwark for the maintenance of the park. There was a lot to discuss and we both came away with a long list of action points: cut the hedges up near the adventure … Read more