The management team at #ThamesRdWetland @thames21.bsky.social do not have fires at this important Metropolitan Site of Importance for Nature Conservation. If you're passing by on Thames Rd/River Cray By-way 105 and see a fire, it's ARSON. Please ring Police / Fire Brigade. THANKS.

#ThamesRdWetland @thames21.bsky.social Now been 2nd or 3rd ARSON attack last 3 wks. Large piles cut Reed composting carbon back to soil torched so now in atmos. All life in them incinerated. Nearby v.rare plants damaged. <0 IQ criminals seeking cheap 'laugh' don't care/too thick to understand.

#ThamesRdWetland next @thames21.bsky.social staff-supported workday 10th April.
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No particular skills required. All kit provided. Basic refreshments. Loos available at nearby council depot. Help wildlife. Meet new people.

Next #ThamesRdWetland @thames21.bsky.social staff-supported habitat management session 13/3. Help finish this winter's Reed cutting and remove prev cut material. Kit provided. Basic refreshments. Nearby loos. Sign up: book.plinth.org.uk/e/LFbuahHJmC...

Jelly Ear fungus, 13/2/26, on typical host, Elder, #ThamesRdWetland managed by @thames21.bsky.social Next staff-supported habitat work 13/3. If you can do gardening you can do this. All kit provided. Refreshments. Nearby loos. Meet new people. Get close to nature.
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14/2 a Mottled Shieldbug (Rhaphigaster nebulosa) fest #ThamesRdWetland SMINC, London Boro Bexley, managed by @thames21.bsky.social 3 of the 4 under loose bark on Elder damaged by fire 2022. First found UK 2010. Next staff-supported habitat management session 13/3 book.plinth.org.uk/e/LFbuahHJmC...

#ThamesRdWetland @thames21.bsky.social Largely sunny 30th Jan. 8 volunteers did 36 person-hrs 45 mins cutting Reed, pollarding Sallows. Red Kite seen. Sign-up for our next staffed sessions, Fris Feb 13th + Mar 13th
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All kit provided. Basic refreshments. Nearby loos.

Sunny day at #ThamesRdWetland Solo Reed work + removing rubbish left by fly-grazers 😠 3, poss 4 Water Rail, Teal, 2 Cetti's warblers, 2 Song Thrushes, Water Vole signs. New volunteers welcome at our @thames21.bsky.social staff-supported event on Jan 30th. Sign up: book.plinth.org.uk/e/FJvrhxZVIv...

Can I assume that your investment in local roads will also make stopping the run-off (hydrocarbons, tyre dust, litter), straight into local Rivers and #ThamesRdWetland , a priority?

5 ppl, 21 person hrs 44m work on sunny 16/1 #ThamesRdWetland @thames21.bsky.social 1st Lizard of yr basking at least 10.35-13.50. Prev earliest 19/1/16 (tho margin of error is we're usually only onsite 1 day/wk). 2 Peregrines. Buzzard. Bee Orchids. Join us 30/1: book.plinth.org.uk/e/FJvrhxZVIv...

Not good at fungus ID. It's been suggested elsewhere that this specimen on a pile of rotting Reed at #ThamesRdWetland @thames21.bsky.social on 3/1/26 could be Entoloma sp.,or a Lepista sordida (rather than Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis). Thoughts welcome, tho may be impossible from just photos.

Seedling Slender Thistle (Carduus tenuiflorus) 3/1. Species on new London NRS axiophyte list. Grew in gravelly substrate railway end #ThamesRdWetland @thames21.bsky.social Lost there as organic content rose. Persists on rill roadside grit/dirt outside fenceline, but vulnerable to council strimmers🙁

HELP NEEDED #ThamesRdWetland on Jan 30th! Due to adverse weather forecast, our 9/1 @thames21.bsky.social
staff-supported event was cancelled. BUT the large amount of work we need to do before end of March is undiminished. So we're trying again .... To book: book.plinth.org.uk/e/FJvrhxZVIv...

Three @thames21.bsky.social volunteers at a sunny cold #ThamesRdWetland 3/1. 12.5 person-hrs work. Ice prevented clearing previously cut Reed from H2O, so mainly pruned shrubs to restore sunlight to key reptile habitat. Linnet a new site record, tho species has very probably visited before.

Get hands on at #ThamesRdWetland - important wildlife site within #CrayfordMarshes Sign-up for monthly
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15 volunteers at 12/12 @thames21.bsky.social event #ThamesRdWetland delivered 57 person-hrs Reed, ditch + pollarding work with 9h 30m onsite help from 2 supporting staff. Holding back drying out, maintaining species diversity. Book Jan/Feb/Mar sessions (free) book.plinth.org.uk/e/LFbuahHJmC...

Mottled Shieldbug (Rhaphigaster nebulosa) from pollarded Sallow branch 28/11/25. New site record #ThamesRdWetland SMINC in London Boro Bexley, managed by @thames21.bsky.social Feeds on various decidous trees. First found in UK in London area 2010, following increase on near continent. (Pic Elio G)

Yes. Have had these on #ThamesRdWetland on Inner Crayford Marshes for a few years now. In fact I can't recall any 'straight' Pieds here at all.

3 of us today #ThamesRdWetland @thames21.bsky.social Sallow pollarding, Reed + other veg work. V. annoying to have to clear 6 bags clothes, pots + pans, 2 large 'just eat' bike delivery back-packs, blanket + shag-pile carpet dumped on site, fortunately near council rubbish collection point.