March means Amphibians! As the amphibian migration begins, we start to check all the ponds within Lewisham for signs of amphibian presence. This year we visited Bell Green Pond, in Linear Park and Chinbrook Community Orchard. We change our session time from 11am-2pm to evening sessions 4.30pm-7pm to catch dusk into darkness where we can practice many different amphibian survey techniques.
If you’ve been reading the blog over the past year, you may remember we’ve been working on the hub area of Ladywell Fields (South), previously digging up the brambles and reducing nettles etc in 2 of the 4 areas. In March we returned to plant up marginal plants at the bottom next to the river and a wildflower mix of plug plants and seeds for the rest of the slope.
We donned our waders and started our quarterly clean up of the River Ravensbourne working from Ladywell Road up to Lewisham Hospital and then around the secondary channel.
Rivers and People 