Wren Practical Work

The 2025 winter season of Wren practical work starts on 2nd October Meet at the Temple car park at 10.00 For further dates see the web diary

All welcome, tools and gloves provided but come dressed for work and the weather.

Litter Pick at the Ornamental Waters in Wanstead Park

Wednesday 1st October 11am – 1pm

Please book to ensure enough equipment:

https://litterpickthelakebed.eventbrite.co.uk/

Wren AGM

For those unable to attend the Zoom Meeting the excellent talk from Tanith Cook on the Conservation Strategy for Epping Forest is available here:

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The Wren 2025 Autumn Newsletter has arrived:

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Lepidoptera report 2024: Butterflies and Moths

A comprehensive, well-illustrated report on the Butterflies and Moths found in the Wanstead area in 2024. Compiled by Tim Harris

Save our Skylarks

Several pairs of the iconic ground-nesting Skylark breed on Wanstead Flats. These birds represent the closest population of breeding larks to the centre of London but for how much longer? Nationally, the population of Skylarks has been in decline for decades so the Wren Group – in conjunction with the City of London Corporation – is determined to do all it can to protect their numbers locally. In 2021, and each year since, temporary fencing has been erected around two areas of the Flats. Between March and early September, this has meant that the birds – whose eggs and chicks are particularly vulnerable to disturbance – were protected from heavy human and canine footfall during the nesting season. This protection paid off handsomely last year with at least four young raised – the best breeding success for quite a few years.

We hope the larks repeat that success this year, and that we will begin to see the recolonisation of more areas of the Flats. In order to reduce the use of single-use plastic fencing, the City of London Corporation is this year experimenting with blue rope to demarcate the two areas people are politely being asked to keep out of. Please respect this fencing, the future of our larks may depend on it. If you see the rope being vandalised, please report to the police 101.

Missed the Wren AGM ?

A fasinating talk by Ben Murphy, Chair of the Epping Forest and Commons Committee, telling us about new developments in the management of the Forest is available here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/7MYc4gQGmMxzfmpSmgYA3EM2P27jLqwtSAehLwYjMFdMod-la1D7ennKJAfBwUtXVjlpThzxOgjieRLK.l0fx-on55Cg9OG8s?canPlayFromShare=true&from=share_recording_detail&continueMode=true&componentName=rec-play&originRequestUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Frec%2Fshare%2FuhXGphF-MLqT0ikCHb-Fchv3_ifcpe1ve-vHHMKoh65Fs85uOa8thCj3zlFK5klt.kcdOxpqMlh7SF4HV

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