Marden Wildlife
@mardenwildlife.bsky.social
A community working for wildlife in The Weald of Kent.
Newly tagged. What will this beauty tell us? @rspb.bsky.social @kentishplover.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Newly tagged. What will this beauty tell us? @rspb.bsky.social @kentishplover.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Welcome back to Marden this morning!
@kentwildlife.bsky.social @kentishplover.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social
@kentwildlife.bsky.social @kentishplover.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Welcome back to Marden this morning!
@kentwildlife.bsky.social @kentishplover.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social
@kentwildlife.bsky.social @kentishplover.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social
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KOS Winter Talk - Conor Jameson - 'Looking for the Goshawk - The Lost Raptor'
Today 7.30pm via Zoom:
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March 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
KOS Winter Talk - Conor Jameson - 'Looking for the Goshawk - The Lost Raptor'
Today 7.30pm via Zoom:
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Today 7.30pm via Zoom:
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We're talking to the RSPB Medway Group tonight. Come along and find out what we're up to - practical help for rare plants and birds, and much more.
Parkwood Community Centre, Rainham. ME8 9PN. 7.00 for 7.30
@kentishplover.bsky.social @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social
Parkwood Community Centre, Rainham. ME8 9PN. 7.00 for 7.30
@kentishplover.bsky.social @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We're talking to the RSPB Medway Group tonight. Come along and find out what we're up to - practical help for rare plants and birds, and much more.
Parkwood Community Centre, Rainham. ME8 9PN. 7.00 for 7.30
@kentishplover.bsky.social @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social
Parkwood Community Centre, Rainham. ME8 9PN. 7.00 for 7.30
@kentishplover.bsky.social @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social
A walk around a field of winter bird seed (with the farmer's blessing) prescribed by the village GP, surrounded by flocks of yellowhammers and linnets. Learning about conservation farming too. All within 5 mins of the village centre. What's not to like? @naturalengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
A walk around a field of winter bird seed (with the farmer's blessing) prescribed by the village GP, surrounded by flocks of yellowhammers and linnets. Learning about conservation farming too. All within 5 mins of the village centre. What's not to like? @naturalengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
Chequer tree (Sorbus terminalis) seedlings. A year in the fridge to germinate, now being raised to replenish those lost to human progress! Historically found in the Weald of Kent, our volunteers are redressing the balance with genetically appropriate plants raised from locally harvested seeds. 🍂
January 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Chequer tree (Sorbus terminalis) seedlings. A year in the fridge to germinate, now being raised to replenish those lost to human progress! Historically found in the Weald of Kent, our volunteers are redressing the balance with genetically appropriate plants raised from locally harvested seeds. 🍂
Twenty-eight species on our NY Plant Hunt, including this Field Woundwort. @kentfieldclub.bsky.social Celebrating New Year with 2024's Chequer Gin. Cheers 🥂
December 31, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Twenty-eight species on our NY Plant Hunt, including this Field Woundwort. @kentfieldclub.bsky.social Celebrating New Year with 2024's Chequer Gin. Cheers 🥂
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Local winter feed crops and associated hedgerows quite birdy. Brambling, 5 Siskin, c150 YH, 200+ Linnet, 110+ Fieldfare, 40+ Redwing, plus Chaffinches, Reed Bunts and Goldfinches at one site, with c60 YH, c20 Reed Bunt, Linnet & Chaffinch at another site close by #kentbirding
December 30, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Local winter feed crops and associated hedgerows quite birdy. Brambling, 5 Siskin, c150 YH, 200+ Linnet, 110+ Fieldfare, 40+ Redwing, plus Chaffinches, Reed Bunts and Goldfinches at one site, with c60 YH, c20 Reed Bunt, Linnet & Chaffinch at another site close by #kentbirding
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I’ve worked alongside the amazing Mary Colwell for years on the Natural History GCSE & it was *not* a Tory initiative. It was agreed due to huge pressure campaigners brought to it. It’s a pity we’ve got to do it all over again with Labour - but we will!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Natural history GCSE on hold as qualification seen as ‘Tory initiative’, claims campaigner
New GCSE was announced under previous government in 2022 but now ‘sitting in limbo’, says Mary Colwell, one of its architects
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:32 PM
I’ve worked alongside the amazing Mary Colwell for years on the Natural History GCSE & it was *not* a Tory initiative. It was agreed due to huge pressure campaigners brought to it. It’s a pity we’ve got to do it all over again with Labour - but we will!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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From Mary Colwell
"IMPORTANT The campaign for a GCSE in Natural History has stalled. Labour see it as a "Conservative initiative" and won't progress it. It is not a political football, every child has the right to learn about the wonder of the natural world. Pls ask you MP to lobby for it now" 🌿
"IMPORTANT The campaign for a GCSE in Natural History has stalled. Labour see it as a "Conservative initiative" and won't progress it. It is not a political football, every child has the right to learn about the wonder of the natural world. Pls ask you MP to lobby for it now" 🌿
December 1, 2024 at 10:32 AM
From Mary Colwell
"IMPORTANT The campaign for a GCSE in Natural History has stalled. Labour see it as a "Conservative initiative" and won't progress it. It is not a political football, every child has the right to learn about the wonder of the natural world. Pls ask you MP to lobby for it now" 🌿
"IMPORTANT The campaign for a GCSE in Natural History has stalled. Labour see it as a "Conservative initiative" and won't progress it. It is not a political football, every child has the right to learn about the wonder of the natural world. Pls ask you MP to lobby for it now" 🌿
HELP! A free-range poultry farm with 128,000 hens on the banks of a SSSI river. Will veterinary pharmaceuticals in run-off threaten land or riverine condition? Pointers to research please as the operator refuses to provide info about hen welfare or medication. @ukceh.bsky.social ?
November 28, 2024 at 2:37 PM
HELP! A free-range poultry farm with 128,000 hens on the banks of a SSSI river. Will veterinary pharmaceuticals in run-off threaten land or riverine condition? Pointers to research please as the operator refuses to provide info about hen welfare or medication. @ukceh.bsky.social ?
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Good, thoughtful response from the Landworkers Alliance (which, unlike the NFU, actually speaks for farm labourers, tenant farmers, small-scale farmers) to the Labour budget; ELMS; APR.
landworkersalliance.org.uk/reflections-...
landworkersalliance.org.uk/reflections-...
REFLECTIONS ON THE 2024 AUTUMN BUDGET ANNOUNCEMENTS - Landworkers Alliance
We are a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers with a mission to improve the livelihoods of our members and create a better food and land-use system for everyone.
landworkersalliance.org.uk
November 19, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Good, thoughtful response from the Landworkers Alliance (which, unlike the NFU, actually speaks for farm labourers, tenant farmers, small-scale farmers) to the Labour budget; ELMS; APR.
landworkersalliance.org.uk/reflections-...
landworkersalliance.org.uk/reflections-...
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Hoopoe, seen in Willesborough, Ashford #ukbirding #kentbirding
November 25, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Hoopoe, seen in Willesborough, Ashford #ukbirding #kentbirding
In 1857 peasants gleaned corn while landowners looked on. The painting caused a fuss because it made landowners appear uncaring. 167 years later we have landowners gleaning yellow rattle to help recreate lost meadows. Discuss.
November 24, 2024 at 2:38 PM
In 1857 peasants gleaned corn while landowners looked on. The painting caused a fuss because it made landowners appear uncaring. 167 years later we have landowners gleaning yellow rattle to help recreate lost meadows. Discuss.
Bringing bryophytes and buzzards to bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Bringing bryophytes and buzzards to bsky.social