Noticed on Saturday that a new #stile has been installed on the middle entrance to the LNR off Henllys Way. Looks like its a kit & its a tidy job, but no idea who did it. Steve Williams ?

Friends of Henllys Local Nature Reserve Steve Williams It was Jonathan from Countryside replacing the rotten one. Looks great 👍🏻

That's all our stats tallied up for the financial year 2018/19. The Friends of Henllys LNR contributed 1309.25 #volunteer hours to maintaining and improving our #LocalNatureReserve @HenllysCIW Steve Williams Torfaen Council 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @KWT_Torfaen

Friends of Henllys Local Nature Reserve @HenllysCIW Steve Williams Torfaen Council 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @KWT_Torfaen Leader TCBC Fiona Cross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @NickTorfaenMP Keep Wales Tidy Gwent High Sheriffs' Postcode Lottery That’s brilliant well done all !

Friends of Henllys Local Nature Reserve @HenllysCIW Steve Williams Torfaen Council 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @KWT_Torfaen Fiona Cross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @NickTorfaenMP Lynne Neagle Keep Wales Tidy Gwent High Sheriffs' Postcode Lottery Great work, thank you all 👍

Rich & I went out in the rain identified a patch of opposite-leaved golden saxifrage. Its genus Chrysosplenium means "golden spleen" for the spleen-shaped leaves. As such, it was used to treat spleen-related ills. Considered edible, but don't confuse it with edible delicious.

Wow look at Yr5's display about the #coppicing we did together earlier this year. @HenllysCIW MissBevanHCIW #creativity Torfaen Council 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @KWT_Torfaen

Today's theme from #InvasivesWeek is marine. The closest we have to this are our watercourses. In 2015, a large orange fish was released into our top pond. In 2019, we now have these, which were recently identified as Golden Orfe an #INNS. Rehoming soon in an ornamental pond.

Great site meeting with Steve Williams about updating Henllys #LocalNatureReserve‘s management plan. Also discussed some of the newer ideas in the pipeline.

Oh no, looks like seeds #2 (top r) have been munched on @MissBaldwinHCIW #wildflowers

Blue tit removing a faecal sac from one of the nests we painted and put up a couple of years ago. #birds #Tidy Steve Williams @HenllysCIW

We picked up this littered empty packet of crisps & are sending them to be recycled through Walkers Crisps #recycling scheme through TerraCycle US Aldi Stores UK #snackrite #crispybacon #welikethese

Steve Williams Torfaen Council 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 Stop mowing them please.

Well done yr3 @MrYendleHCIW from @HenllysCIW doing some #access improvements. @KWT_Torfaen Steve Williams

11.07.19. I spent 1hr with #scythe & handpull of #Himalayanbalsam behind the log circle area. Loads of small balsam hidden in bramble and bracken. 1st wasp stings of the year too...hooray. @KWT_Torfaen Steve Williams

One of the recommendations of our Green Flag award for Garn Lakes Local Nature Reserve was to repair the natural bird hide on the upper conservation lake. This is now complete. Please respect! Torfaen Council 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @BWHEGvolunteers #LNRs Parciau yng Nghymru Green Dog Walkers Wales Biodiversity

Interesting afternoon visit to the canal off Pentre Lane. Water fern was located along the length of the canal. It’s an invasive species that takes over but weevils to the rescue, we released them & they’ll eat it up! TY for the info & invite Steve Williams #biodiversity

Spent an hour last night with Brian and Rich tackling #Himalayanbalsam behind Glan Rhyd. 4th time we've been over this section. Hopefully that's this finished, although loads of May 2019 sized plants were found & easy to miss. #Volunteering #INNS

Time to work with nature to prevent flooding? Letter to the Times published today: