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On August 8th Nicola Jarvis-Claxton gave a series of short classes on willow weaving to an attentive audience. The sessions took place close to the site’s osier bed, which…

A flock of 13 swifts was seen dashing silently over the river on July 13th. This species is in decline, markedly so in the Canterbury area, and perhaps…

We ran a visitor count on two days in July. Twelve volunteers manned a succession of two-hour slots from 7am to 7pm on Sunday 18th and Wednesday 21st…

Big thanks to the volunteers who helped restore the willow maze on June 5th. After so much rain this year, it had become very overgrown, but after a…

A small herd of cattle are now resident in the middle field on Hambrook Marshes. Dog-walkers should always have dogs on a lead in this area. The cattle…

Summer has arrived, and the first cuckoo was heard on the marshes on May 10th, coming from the direction of Chartham.  The surviving trunk and main boughs of…

As part of a Humanist Climate Action event, two small willows were planted to augment the 18 trees that were put in over a year ago to help…

Love Hambrook Marshes’ annual report for 2020-21 is now online. It gives a summary of the charity’s trustees’ and volunteers’ work over the last year, main events on…

This month saw a very welcome increase in our population of snake’s head fritillaries. The original planting in the boardwalk field about ten years has been on its knees…