The loop around rural Godinton House Park was much better: 5 species of Thrush, Green & Chaffinches, 2 sp of Woodpecker, Stock Dove, Jay, Sparrowhawk, 2 more Snipe & the star birds… 4 Siskins (1 cracking male), a fantastic Little Owl & a squeaking Water Rail along the Kentish Stour CP

Trooping through the rain, we collected 865 pieces of litter from Victoria Park yesterday in 4 hours! Big thank you to our regular Ashford volunteers for helping with something new. Victoria Park Ashford All surveyed for the Preventing Plastic Pollution project Preventing Plastic Pollution

250 #ponds now created/ restored in Kent over 5 years by Kent's Countryside Management Partnerships. All done through the District Level Licensing Scheme. eDNA surveys to start again in 2 weeks. #kscp #mvcp #khwp #rmcp #nwkcp #naturalengland

A whopping success last Friday at the Easter Bunny Challenge at Victoria Park Ashford with 500 participants completing the wildlife trail. Children learned about the animals living in the chalk stream on the banks of the River Stour and earned some chocolate prizes! #britishwildlife

Our fantastic student placement Olivia filmed a peaceful vlog last Thursday, of our litter pick at Westbere on the River Stour ! Canterbury City Council instagram.com/reel/CrBZ-seo3…

Swipe ➡️ to find out more about our exciting Great Crested Newt scheme funded by Natural England as part of district level licensing! Email us to see if your land is viable for a fully funded pond 💧🎉 #districtlevellicensing #greatcrestednewts #NaturalEngland

Our Great Crested Newt pond creation and restoration scheme is currently seeking landowners to receive fully funded pond-works through DLL (Natural England). Get in touch to see if your site is eligible, and spread the word with anyone who might be interested. Natural England

Such a privilege to meet these two barn owl chicks from the Kentish Stour CP nest box that’s been in our orchard for a few years. We’ve had kestrel broods in the box previously, these are the first owls! They were weighed and ringed today, should fledge soon 💚 💚

Come find us here this Sunday for a River Dipping Safari at 11am, 1pm and 3pm!

Join our active and change-making team full-time at the link below. 🌳🏃 Spend time being a Warden for nature reserves, enhancing the rivers and leading our volunteers. jobsearch.kent.gov.uk/jobs/job/KSCP-…

KSCP staff team outing to look at recent work in the Chartham area. We stopped off at the new(ish) sculptural seat on the North Downs Way, part of the Art Trail kentdowns.org.uk/art-trail/ Kent Downs National Landscape

Help plant trees in Thanet in 2024!

Help plant 2000 trees at #ReculverCountryPark on 21st to 24th February and 29th February to 2nd March. Email [email protected] or call 03000 410900 for more details #kentplantree #trees #volunteering

Big news, SCARCE BLUE-TAILED DAMSELFLY has been found on our brand new ponds! A new species for Kent and our 32nd species of Odonata for the area! A great find by Andrew Lipczynski 🇺🇦🕊 .

Fantastic news, three new Great Crested Newts ponds created by us this spring have already benefited the local rare Damselfly! Instant Mission success for nature! Pond creations funded by DLL Natural England

Calling all children and young people! There is still time to enter a picture in this year's Canterbury Riverfest Children's Art Competition for a chance to win one of a number of great prizes! Enter by visiting the Great Stour Riverfest 2024 on Eventbrite for T&Cs.

Fantastic Launch to the #GreatStourRiverfest2024 yesterday in #Canterbury! Great work by Canterbury City Council, Environment Agency and local community groups. Look out for lots more celebrations of the River Stour in the run-up to #WorldRiversDay next Sunday. Wildwood Kent Kentish Stour CP

To end this🧵,more of John MacKinnon's footage of the wild beavers living in the River Great Stour at Canterbury just upstream of Sainsbury's, habituated to the many passers by & readily visible at either end of the day, busily going about their business. Kentish Stour CP 7/7

These are not not magical mushrooms growing by the river but balls that have ended up on the riverbank. Dispose of balls appropriately!

Blean Nature Reserve is looking good at the moment. Lots of wildflowers and even some common spotted orchids. This was a project that KSCP delivered for the Parish Council in 2006. We turned an arable field into a nature reserve.