FALLEN TREE BECOMES NEW BUG HOTELS
Perhaps the most significant event of the month was the arrival of tree surgeons on October 21st to clear away the windblown poplar on the old railway embankment, and…
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GUIDED WALK FOR EXTINCTION REBELLION
On 17th October three Love Hambrook Marshes trustees gave about 15 members of Extinction Rebellion a tour of Hambrook Marshes. As you can see from the photo, this was…
OCTOBER WILDLIFE NOTES
After the summer drought, weather of a different sort has been very much to the fore, with 173mm of rain. One inevitable result is that the fields are getting…
BREAKING NEWS: COUNCIL WITHDRAWS WINCHEAP PARK AND RIDE PLANS
Canterbury City Coucil issued a statement on 9th October, announcing the withdrawal of their current plan for the extension of the Wincheap Park and Ride. “We have been…
SEPTEMBER WILDLIFE NOTES
Recording mammals can be quite hard work; we have a very impoverished mammalian fauna in the UK, and the majority of them are small, dull brown and nocturnal.…
PICNIC TABLE RESTORED
It was a bit of a struggle, but at last the picnic table has been restored to its former glory by artist/sculptor Steven Portchmouth who originally built this…
TREE WATERING
I thought that by now we would no longer need to be tending the large trees we planted in late winter near the A2 bridge, once the drought…
WINCHEAP PARK AND RIDE EXTENSION UPDATE SEPT 2020
There’s an interesting article in the 17th September issue of the Kentish Gazette about the new council leader, Ben Fitter-Harding. Encouragingly, he alludes to his thoughts on the…
AUGUST WILDLIFE NOTES
One of the month’s highlights was squeezed into the last day of August, when a family party of two mute swan parents and eight full-grown juveniles were busily…
PICNIC AREA REPAIRS
We hired a concrete breaker and generator to dig out the four sturdy angle irons that provided major support for the decorative panels on either side of the…
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