Just outside the south eastern corner of the Wren Wildlife Recording Area is a small pocket park sandwiched between two major roads (including Orient Way), a train track, residential housing and warehouses. The Pocket Park contains 125 trees, some scrub area, some unmown verges and, and some landscaped lawns. The whole area, including 122 of the …
https://wrengroup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/GMT20200614-093424_Introducti_1686x768.mp4 During and after the Zoom broadcast comments were invited on the chat function, which can be found by clicking here: GMT20200614-093424_Introducti Some references relevant to the talk and discussion: 1 Walton, Richard E. et al (2020). ‘Nocturnal pollinators strongly contribute to pollen transport of wild flowers in an agricultural landscape.’ Royal Society Publishing, 2 …
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An introduction to garden moths from Tim Harris
On Sunday 26 April at 11am the Wren Wildlife & Conservation Group Held its second free virtual meeting online using Zoom. After our successful first meeting on bees and bee-flies (see blog), this second meeting was on the topic of plant galls. James Heal, Chair of the Wren Group, is a passionate amateur advocate of …
If you are like us, you’ll be missing getting out regularly to see nature and being involved in keeping the Park and Flats in good condition. You are probably missing our field meetings and practical work parties too. To keep us going, the WREN Conservation group will ran a free virtual meeting on Sunday 19 …
The February Wren wildlife walk was led by James Heal and started at Jubilee Lake. Even though the weather was windy and rather wet 20 plucky people turned up to hear about the abundance of birds on dispaly. Two Pochard, two Gadwall and four Shoveller mixed the more common Mallard and Tufted Duck and …
Happy New Year! Could there be any better way to start off the New Year than with a search for plants flowering in Leytonstone? Not a question that has often crossed my mind, so I was a little surprised by the proposal from Tricia Moxety to do just that as part of the 7th Botanical …
