Wildlife Activities
Fungi Walk – 29 October 2017
45 people attended a Fungi walk on 29th October 2017 in Bushwood led by Tricia Moxly. Despite the dry weather enough fungi were found to make for a very interesting walk.
Nature Club – October 2017
35 children turned up on Sunday 29th October for our Autumn Nature Club. The weather was perfect for our nature trail through the Chestnut trees and into Chalet Wood. Children enjoyed squirrelling away nuts and finding them again, as well as doing bark rubbings, making stick skeletons and playing with their friends in the woods. …
Woodberry Wetlands: lessons for Wanstead Park?
On Thursday 5 October a group organised by Epping Forest Operations Manager Geoff Sinclair visited the Woodberry Wetlands reserve in Stoke Newington. As well as Geoff, the party included chief ecologist Dr Jeremy Dagley, conservation arborist Richard Edmonds and other Epping Forest representatives. Several members of the Friends of Wanstead Parklands and Wren Group also …
BioBlitz Nature Club
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Nature Club – December 2016 – Artists at work
Little tomatoes, mangoes, squashes, holly berries sat on the table in a colourful heap. We tried really hard to paint and draw these fruits and seeds with pastels and paints. Luckily local artist Anita McCullough was there to give us a helping hand and we painted some great pictures to take home and frame. So …
Nature Club – November 2016 – A Rainy Day
Today it rained ALL morning. We made a giant spider’s web with Charlotte in the middle. Then we made leaf art : we rubbed the undersides of dried leaves ( the veins show more on the undersides) to make beautiful leaf skeleton pictures. Then we played Big Bingo. Menuo was a very good caller and …
Nature Club – October 2016 – Autumn Leaves
What a surprise present today: Ruduo and Menuo brought in the dried up body of a large dead hedgehog! We had a good look at its little feet and its skeleton and spines. Then we had a rather damp walk across the Flats to see if we could spot any skylarks and collected lots of …
Nature Club – September 2016 – Pond dip and Bird Song
A lovely warm day again. We listened to some recorded bird songs we were likely to hear around Jubilee Pond like coot and mallard and were pretty good at guessing which was which. We found guessing the swan’s song quite difficult! Then we went pond dipping and found a lovely fat leech, lots of waterboatmen …
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