Beddington Incinerator BBC London News Report

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b037xhyf/BBC_London_News_07_08_2013/

Beddington Incinerator report from 13:06 to 15:50.

The Beddington Incinerator and BBC London News

BBC London interviewing Paul Pickering from Stop the Incinerator Campaign

Helped out with a feature for BBC London News this morning about the Beddington Incinerator.  If they decide to use it - it will be on BBC London tonight at 6.30pm.

There should be comments from Stop the Incinerator campaign, Sutton Council and from the South London Waste Partnership.

UPDATE HERE:
http://peteralfreybirdingnotebook.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/beddington-incinerator-decision-due.html

Local media links on this here ,here here and me being misquoted and looking dodgy here

Good times at the farmlands

 Juvenile Mediterranean Gull

 Chalkhill Blue- a first for the farmlands

 Clouded Yellow

 Early Thorn

 Rusty Dot Pearl- a migrant

Caloptilia robustella - a first for the farmlands

 Vapourer

Garden and Jersey Tigers

Been a good couple of days at the farmlands with a juvenile Med Gull today, 20+ Green Sands, Hobby yesterday evening, Shoveler and Teal have arrived and two broods of Little Grebes and a brood of Tufted Duck on the Southern Lake.

Following from the day trip to Banstead on Sunday I kept a close eye on the butterflies and found a Chalkhill Blue and a Clouded Yellow!

Good mothing nights with a few firsts for the farmlands and highlights including Garden and Jersey Tigers and an Early Thorn. 

ERF UPDATE

Evening Standard account:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/plea-to-mayor-over-incinerator-plant-plan-for-country-park-8746071.html

STILL TIME TO TELL BORIS
http://peteralfreybirdingnotebook.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/tell-boris.html

I met with the GLA case planning officer yesterday to convey some of our concerns.

Please email your opinion to Boris:
mayor@london.gov.uk

and finally here's a link to let us know that the ERF is the best thing to happen in the whole world :-)
http://www.viridor.co.uk/news-blogs/show/south-london-waste-project-is-best-in-the-world

Day Trip- Banstead Woods

 Clouded Yellow (helice form) - a first for the site

 Cut-leaved Germander- mega rare plant

 Round-leaved Fluellen

 Yellow Bird's Nest (Dutchman's Pipe)

 Chalkhill Blue- 50+ of these today

 CFBW Bird Group

Steve Gale over looking Chipstead Valley

 

I planned a day out away from Beddington and was hoping to get to the Thames Estuary. However I ended up 15 minutes from Beddington at our neighbouring local patch Canons Farm and Banstead Wood and joined in a butterfly and wildflower walk. Basically it was brilliant but here's the account from the local boys:

 

Steve Gale: http://northdownsandbeyond.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/clouded-yellow-of-form-helice-welcome.html

 

David Cambpell: http://devilbirder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/butterfly-tour-comes-up-trumps.html

DYLAN ALFREY

Here's a proud plug for my nephew's wildlife blog. He lives in Bulgaria at the Balkan Ecology Project (BALKEP) centre

DYLAN'S BLOG
http://prayingmantisworld.blogspot.co.uk/

Love this post!:
http://prayingmantisworld.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/my-top-favourite-10-fings.html

BALKEP stuff here:
http://peteralfreybirdingnotebook.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/balkan-ecology-project.html

Sutton Ecology Centre Bioblitz 2013

Red Kite- first record for the Sutton Ecology Centre



Juvenile Blackbird

Common Darter

Garden Tiger

  

 Mare's-tail

 Water Plantain

 Water Mint

 Greater Spearwort

A few shots from today's Sutton Ecology Centre Bioblitz organised by Sutton's Biodiversity Team. Devilbirder and I led a bird walk and found a Red Kite flying over- a first record for the site.
Set the moth traps last night and did a bat walk too and learnt some more odonata and aquatic botany.
More here: http://suttonnature.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/a-weekend-of-wildlife/