Over 40 people attended our bat walk this morning in DKH Open Space and Green Dale Fields. It was led by Jo Ferguson from the Bat Conservation Trust and she bought Hannah and Becky along from the London Bat Group. We had loads of bat detectors to hand out so that everyone could have the … 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
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
It was a disappointing turnout, in terms of humans, for the 2018 RSPB winter bird count but at least the birds didn’t let us down. Bird enthusiast Guy Haslam from the Friends of Green Dale was there to assist with the identifying of birds, which is a great help when often you can only hear … Read more
By Stephen Govier In search of inspiration I took a trip to the spectacular 71 hectares of wildflower meadow on the banks of our great river Thames, Chertsey Meads is gorgeous from May to July when the wild flowers are in bloom. I went at the end of June and the ripple of blue in the breeze was … Read more