Mary Forest Gate
@maryforestgate.bsky.social
Birder, nature loving, vegan, grandmother Local patch Wanstead Flats & Park, East London
Thank you to everyone who attended our annual Wildlife Weekend. Our next event is a bee walk with expert @tonymadgwick.bsky.social (LNHS Recorder for Bees and Wasps) 🐝 Wanstead Park Bee Walk 🐝 June 28th, 10-00 am, Tea Hut, Wanstead Park Further information: wrengroup.org.uk
Wren Conservation Group
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Wanstead Wildlife Weekend is back! Free events for wildlife explorers of all ages. Wren Stall by the Tea Hut in Wanstead Park from 10-00-16-00 both days. This year, in honour of our patron, Sir David Attenborough, our events will focus on children and young people facebook.com/events/s/wan...
Dawn Chorus Bird Walk 📆 Saturday 25 April at 06:00 📍Wanstead Park Tea Hut Join us for a walk through the Park listening out for bird calls and their songs. Learn how to identify different species, including some newly arrived migrant birds. #londonbirds facebook.com/events/s/daw...
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I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too? action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
Tell the UK Government they must do better for nature!
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk
The Lake District Hunt Sabs captured harrowing footage of the Coniston Foxhounds digging out a terrified fox and throwing them to the hounds to be torn apart. protectthewild.substack.com/p/coniston-f...
Coniston Foxhounds Dig Out and Throw LIVE Fox to Hounds
The Lake District Hunt Sabs captured harrowing footage of the Coniston Foxhounds digging out a terrified fox and throwing them to the hounds to be torn apart.
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Hornet mimic hoverfly, holly blue butterfly, green-veined white butterfly & hornet nest @wrenwildlife.bsky.social #butterflies #hoverfly #butterfly #pollinators #summer #wansteadflats
🦋 9th August: Wren Guided Butterfly Walk 🦋 While the #BigButterflyCount 2025 is on, we are leading a walk around #Wanstead Park to look for butterflies and to help you identify them. Saturday 9th August. 10.00am. Meet by the Tea Hut at Wanstead Park. (what3words - softly.ropes.risk)
red admiral & common blue butterflies + a female banded demoiselle - Exchange Lands Wanstead Park @wrenwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @eppingforest.bsky.social #butterflies #demoiselle #redadmiral #commonblue #eppingforest #wansteadpark
@wrenwildlife.bsky.social River Roding Walk with Paul Powlesland 18th May For details : wrengroup.org.uk or check our facebook pages www.facebook.com/groups/83265... & www.facebook.com/WrenOrg
This ruddy shelduck was visiting our patch and hanging out with the Egyptian geese to which it is related - beautiful bird. There's been a few reported and they live in Holland so maybe the next coloniser @wrenwildlife.bsky.social #birds #ducks #waterfowl #vagrantbirds #nature
last few from Spain, Sardinian warbler, bee eater & rock bunting #birds #spain #spanishbirds #beeeater #sardinianwarbler #rockbunting #nature #wildlife #spring
squacco heron, marbled duck, red-knobbed coot and Bonelli's eagle #birds #spain #spanishbirds #moretofollow #sagabirdwatching
flying white stork, lovely dovey collared doves, feeding spoonbill and penduline tit building a nest #birds #spain #spanishbirds #moretofollow #sagabirdwatching
greater whitethroat, blackcap, blackcap and great crested grebes
Sounds like a great opportunity #AcademicSky #PhD #ornithology #ecology #buildingdesign
PiedFly.Net@piedflynet.bsky.social · last yr.PhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.
Getting out and about again - female Shoveler, female Pochard, pair of Pied Wagtails and a nice view 🙂
7 months in and Labour are showing they are no different to the Tories when it comes to protecting wildlife and the environment.
Hiding in plain sight! Tundra Bean Goose amongst the resident flock of Greylags on Wanstead Flats this morning. Patch tick & 1st site record. #londonbords #UKbirds
Great Spotted Woodpecker on #WansteadFlats @wrenwildlife.bsky.social #birds #londonbirds #woodpeckers
Govt responds to our petition to end the cull! 🦡
A few from the coach outing with @mbs.bsky.social to Abberton yesterday - Green Sandpiper, Slavonian Grebe, male Goosander and male Goldeneye
"‘Get on my land’: the farmers who want strangers wandering their fields" Meet the access-friendly farmers & landowners who @righttoroam.bsky.social's @amyjanebeer.bsky.social has been working with You can catch some of them at Oxford Real Farming Conf tomorrow www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Get on my land’: the farmers who want strangers wandering their fields
A growing number of landholders are joining forces with right-to-roam campaigners to boost public access to the countryside
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