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We will be holding our first dawn chorus walk since 2019 on Thursday 31 March. Meet outside the cafe at 6 am. If you have binoculars, please bring them. We’ll do a circuit of Hilly Fields and and identify common bird songs and calls such as those of the blackbird, robin and wren, as well ...

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Start at 12midday and finish is at 5pm. We are helping bring some new events for this year’s fair, but the event is organised by the Brockley Society volunteers. Should you want a stall, here it their information: http://brockleysociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/General-Stall-Information-Sheet-2021.pdf THIS IS A VOLUNTEER RUN EVENT, if you want to help out with this community event, ...

Nature and our mental healthhttps://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week?fbclid=IwAR16cGn5KzWXqapwBj0zXXbZMYeUCbfhakLiqfPqovcHoitgnig_8M9V5Ng I “Nature is so central to our psychological and emotional health, that it’s almost impossible to realise good mental health for all without a greater connection to the natural world”.  Perhaps on your healthy walk you’d like to try out our plant hunt. It was prepared in a year when ...

Following extensive work clearing the encroaching brambles we are being rewarded with the view of the bluebells. The existing seed bank is also getting a chance to flower along with the more recently added primroses. We are hoping to see invertebrates thrive along with foraging birds. Listen out for the black cap, they nest locally ...

THE LANE The mature hawthorns along this lane are probably the oldest trees in the park. Mentioned in the Edwardian tales of “Young Philip Madison” by local author Henry Williamson ‘Away [from the crest] in the distance, under much-climbed thorn trees, played the hatless children.’ We have dug out a width of the brambles and ...

The bird champions set off for this years RSPB annual survey in a torrential down pour, but it seems that is a plus when it comes to spotting gulls. Full update can be found on the bird champion blogspot. http://hillyfields.blogspot.com/ The post BGBW survey results for Hilly Fields first appeared on www.hilly.org.uk.