We are in the process of updating our website, we haven't been able to update for a while, but please keep an eye out for future changes. We hope you can find all the information you need, but if you there is something you can't find on these pages, please contact us. We will try … Continue reading November 2018 update
Our regular last Saturday of the month Open Days, from 13.00 to 16.00, which we have been running except in the winter for the last few years, depend on one or more of the Friends group being around. But, a combination of long pre-arranged holidays and sudden family commitments means that this is not going … Continue reading Sorry – no Open Day tomorrow
This coming Saturday, from 1 pm to 4 pm, is the first opportunity in 2017 for everyone from the community to look round this local nature reserve, with its large pond, incorporating one of the last remnants of the Croydon Canal, and managed now for the benefit of frogs and other amphibians. It is also … Continue reading April Open Day this Saturday
Just found a photo of that sparrowhawk in Dacres Wood from last year's walk The walk will start at 7.30 from Dacres Wood Nature reserve - at the end of Honeyfield Mews, which is off Dacres Road, Forest Hill, just past Catling Close on the right coming from Forest Hill, just before on the left if … Continue reading April 9th – Mayow Park and Dacres Wood Bird Walk
At 9.30, Caroline, I and maybe a few others, will be at the Reserve from 9.30 doing some conservation work. There's an unsightly bonfire site we're thinking of covering over with some of the reeds we pulled from the pond last year, and still lots of brambles to be dug out from the south end … Continue reading Last Tuesday of February tomorrow means …
Richard Jones - a.k.a. Bugman Jones will be in Dacres Wood this Saturday from 10.00 to 4.30, showing how to be a "curious entomologist". As he explains: Insects are everywhere. They are so many, and so varied — fascinating, beautiful, mysterious, bizarre. Through their mind-boggling biodiversity they offer us a window into the ecological complexity of … Continue reading How to be a curious entomologist
As in 2015, our last Saturday of the month Open Day will be about blackberrying, so come along with your old margarine tubs or other containers. The reserve will be open between 1.00 and 4.00 pm, and entrance is free, but donations to support the work of the Friends group are welcome. We have recently … Continue reading 2016 Blackberry day! – August 27th
Dacres Wood will feature in a Lewisham Nature Walk this Sunday. Led by botanists Tom Moulton and Pete Richardson (who has documented many of the species in Dacres Wood), it will start from Forest Hill Station at 2.00 pm, and we expect to be getting to Dacres Wood around 2.45, before going on to Mayow … Continue reading Lewisham Nature Walk this Sunday
We felt our new bridge / walkway deserved something rather more imaginative than the standard red ribbon for its official opening by Perry Vale Cllr Susan Wise Thanks to Ema's Secret Adventurers for the froggy garland, to Dani for the reed chain, and LB Lewisham Ecology for the loppers. Who needs scissors?
Claire's organising another of her ever popular Teddy Bear picnics for our May Open Day this Saturday - with an earlier start time to encourage families to come for lunch with a picnic. We're also thinking about a new activity this year ... watch this space. And in the background, there may be woodsmen, digging … Continue reading May 28th Open Day – Teddy Bears’ Picnic