Bio-Blitz Itinerary
Friday 26 June 21:00. Bat Walk. Meet outside the tea hut, Wanstead Park. Keith French and Andy Froud, authors of “Social Calls of the Bats of Britain and Ireland”, will […]
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Nature Club – May 2015
MAY:EGGS, NESTS & SPARROW FOOD & SOMETHING WEIRD…. We had a good look at an old sparrows nest which was made of grass twisted round and round & we listened
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Canvey Wick awayday
Half a dozen Wren members visited the Buglife reserve of Canvey Wick on Sunday 17th May. This brownfield site was going to be developed as a refinery, but the development
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Nature Club – March & April 2015
March – Foxes and Frogspawn We often see foxes in our gardens and roads so we found out a few amazing facts about them & drew some nice pictures. Three
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Spring Whinchats in Wanstead
After seeing this pristine-plumaged Whinchat on an unmown strip between blocks of football pitches on Wanstead Flats on Saturday morning (18 April) – and after Nick Croft’s great photos of
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Spring migration finally gets going
After the early promise of Wheatears in mid-March, followed by a handful of Sand Martins and Swallows, and the establishment of territories by Chiffchaffs and then Blackcaps, not much visible
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The Wanstead Park consultation process: our response
The Wren Group welcomes the initiative to develop a plan for the Park, and the opportunity to comment on it. While we do not agree with some of the proposals
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Spike in Shoveler numbers
As expected, the coordinated waterbird counts for the Wanstead Park lakes, Hollow Pond (Whipp’s Cross) and Eagle Pond (Snaresbrook) conducted on Sunday 8 March for the British Trust for Ornithology
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Scrub clearance in the Exchange Lands
A bright, sunny morning with a blustery wind saw a dozen Wren volunteers clearing bramble scrub in the Exchange Lands, between the River Roding and the City of London
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Bird Surveys
Breeding bird survey The Wren Group and Wanstead Birders will be conducting a full breeding bird survey of Wanstead Flats and Wanstead Park during May. Dates have yet to be