It's #NoMowMay! Who's giving the mower a rest this year?🌼

Inspiring day with other Rangers at Wild Tolworth, first large-scale rewilding project in London. Met their free roaming Sussex cattle & learnt about the many benefits a non-medicated cow pat can bring to increasing [email protected] @nationalparkcity.bsky.social

The motion to restore nature on @churchofengland.org's land is making headlines! @deborahmeaden.bsky.social and @chrisgpackham.bsky.social are showing the Church why this matters now. Check out the article in the Church Times: www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

This #NationalNestboxWeek, remember not all birds nest the same way! Here's a few options to get you started... Robins and Wrens like to keep hidden, tucking their nests away in dense cover. An open-fronted box placed low down and out of sight is just their style. (1/4)

Did you know that the sun won't set before 5pm until the 25th October. That's just what we wanted to hear! Brighter days are coming. 🌿

Beautiful and tiny fungi spotted on my walk around the reserve, I think it is a frosty bonnet 🙂 #PimpHallNatureReserve

Government Survey of Friends Groups We urge every group to fill in the survey. Please forward to any other similar groups you are in contact with. The deadline is Sunday 7th December. 07lkx.mjt.lu/lnk/AWAAAIPv...

Clocks go back Sunday 26th Oct. Our evenings get darker earlier & that means a big change for wildlife. Hedgehogs, foxes & deer will suddenly find their routines overlapping with the rush hour. 🦊 Slow down during dawn & dusk. 🦔 Watch for movement at the roadside.

After 2 years of work, I've finally taken delivery of an actual printed copy of my second book 'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest: A Visual Journey'. I've done my best to capture the essence of these priceless, but mostly dying, ecosystems, and am over the moon with the results. 🌎

🌿 Have your say on what action we need to take for nature in London. The Draft London Local Nature Recovery Strategy is open for consultation: londonlnrs.commonplace.is 🐍 @LDN_environment #London #LondonNature #NatureRecovery #LNRS

Small gardens can boost biodiversity just as much as big ones. And when joined together, tiny nature-friendly spaces create wildlife corridors that can benefit hedgehogs and all sorts of other wildlife! Ideas for small gardens: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/sma...

Side project - cheering up the underpass I walk through almost daily. Photos by Ron Andrews taken at Pimp Hall Nature Reserve of wildflowers growing there - flyposting with permission, with thanks to LBWF for the community Ward funding.

Fungi popping up at #PimpHallNatureReserve and getting ready for #ShroomSunday

Wonderful day out visiting Furnace Brook in East Sussex with other @nationalparkcity.bsky.social rangers. Beautiful and inspiring place.

#ShroomSunday returns - 5th Oct #Chingford Join London National Park City & London Fungus Network to celebrate the world of fungi and mushrooms. 🍄 A celebration of UK Fungus Day for the whole family #mushroomlover #fungiofinstagram #fungi www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shroom-sun...

‘Red kite close up.’ #Streetart by ATM in Wembley Park at Wembley Stadium Station #art Painted to celebrate #London becoming the first National Park City & the wonderful success story of the reintroduction of the once critically endangered red kite.

Looking forward to another fantastic Shroom Sunday at Pimp Hall Nature Reserve which will be on the 5th October this year. Buy your tickets via the link below 🍄🍄‍🟫 www.londonfungusnetwork.org/event-detail...

Lovely article about one of our resident groups at the nature reserve 😀 fieldsintrust.org/case-studies...

Such a great opportunity, any insect enthusiasts in Chingford!

➡️ FINDING NEW SPECIES: People have shared images on iNaturalist that have led to formal descriptions of new-to-science plants, sea slugs, insects, and more!

Really pleased to see cinnabar moth caterpillars are back in Pimp Hall Nature Reserve this year! Fact: Common ragwort is one of the most frequently visited flowers by butterflies in the UK and more than 200 species of invertebrate have been recorded on it 😀.

The Playbus is visiting Pimp Hall Park again #Chingford Fun activities onboard and also outside too. Date: Tuesday 5th August Time: 10am to 12pm Free. More details here: www.walthamforest.gov.uk/schools-educ...

Free family walk on Sunday 3rd August starting at Pimp Hall Park for ages 4 to 11 🙂👟🌳 Sign up at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walk-yours...

Just spotted a Jersey Tiger Moth at #PimpHallNatureReserve in Chingford, beautiful!

Some lovely family walks coming up over August, September & October. Save the date, booking via Eventbrite will be open shortly.

Been surveying for Hedgehogs using footprint tunnels 🙂 🦔 #PimpHallNatureReserve #Chingford

Thank you 2nd Highams Park Guides for a brilliant litter pick @PimpHallPark. We really appreciate the time you gave to help keep the park tidy ⭐️

Researching your Waltham Forest family history? Discuss your queries with experts from Waltham Forest Family History Society at our Open Day on Sat 5 July. Drop in from 12.30pm-4.30pm at Chingford Assembly Hall, The Green E4 7EN. Free event, part of #NorthChingfordHeritageFestival.

#Free 1 hour #guidedwalks with our vice chair Joanna aka @westminsterwalks.bsky.social along part of the #NorthChingford Heritage Trail this Sunday 6th July at 11 and 2. Part of the #Heritage Festival. Please book in advance here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/north-chin...

Brilliant time meeting characters like William Morris and Queen Elizabeth I, painting ‘plein air’, whittling chopsticks & pond dipping! Special thanks @nationalparkcity.bsky.social for funding the first heritage & wildlife day at Pimp Hall Nature Reserve.

We are so looking forward to participating in the first N #Chingford #Heritage Festival on from tomorrow 21 June to 6 July. There are loads of wonderful events & they are all #FREE! NB advance booking for some. In conjunction with the LB of #WalthamForest www.chingfordhistory.org.uk/heritage-fes...

North Chingford Heritage Festival starting Sat 21st June and will run for over two weeks. Printed programmes available at North Chingford Library. All info available here www.chingfordhistory.org.uk/heritage-fes...

Looking forward to this 🙂 on Sunday 22nd June at #PimpHallNatureReserve

Would love to attempt this, and Chingford is not too far from the start point 1 🙂

LAST DAY to sign petition calling for ban of driven grouse shooting petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... 104,000+ sigs so will almost certainly get a debate. Add your signature before midnight or, after 6 months, you've missed the boat. Big thanks to all who've signed. @wildjustice.bsky.social

🎁 It's competition time! 🎁 You could be in with a chance to win prizes for taking part in the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme! For more info on how to enter, visit www.hedgehogstreet.org/nhmp-competi... @ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @mammalweb.bsky.social

Had a wonderful time exploring Waltham Forest Archives - now in the Chingford Assembly Hall - glitter ball and all. Searching for Pimp Hall records.

So far seen Brimstone and Peacock 🥰 at #PimpHallNatureReserve

Friends of Pimp Hall Nature Reserve would love your support when you are shopping as a member of the Co-op, by selecting us as your local cause via the app/website - shop using their blue card. Thank you! P.s this isn’t an April Fools 😁 membership.coop.co.uk/causes/90067

Visited the neighbours today to check the hedge whips planted - 3 years ago - along the fence line to help with security #PimpHallAllotments all doing well & the plot behind that looking ready for the new veg season too.

Butterflies are out at #PimpHallNatureReserve 💚 Common name: comma Scientific name: Polygonia c-album Family: Nymphalidae Habitat: woodland, gardens Caterpillar foodplant: stinging nettle

Quite the transformation, it’s now possible to see into the meadow area once again thanks to recent hedgelaying along the boundary. #PimpHallNatureReserve A traditional craft that involves cutting and bending the stems of small trees to create a living fence.

Beautiful sunshine today & the crocus & wild daffodils (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) have woken up. #PimpHallNatureReserve

A lovely description from 1908 of a stoat sighting & also short-tailed field vole in Chingford 🙂

Wonderful history - Friday Hill House is located opposite #PimpHallPark #Chingford

We have started a little sightings board 😁 #PimpHallNatureReserve

Really good to learn about hedge laying & make a start on the hedge we planted 7 years ago 😀 @PimpHallNatureReserve

Great morning today helping at #PimpHallAllotments they have a brilliant schools programme where they invite a class to plant veg on the school plot. They get to see the allotment through the seasons too. Today clearing bramble to extend the plot.

Getting ready for the big garden birdwatch 😀#PimpHallNatureReserve

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