Yesterday we put in more welly to dismantle submerged windfall willow boughs that’d started rooting into the gravel river bed.The pinchpoint snagged incoming #INNS Floating Pennywort giving it a ready foothold from which to choke further sections of our beloved #RiverLeaDiversion

Before/after We’d rather invest our community volunteer effort& R&R time removing schedule9 #INNS FloatingPennywort damaging our #RiverLeaDiversion habitat but ‘til Thames Water 💧 stops the chronic spread via #LeeFloodReliefChannel this isn’t feasible LDNMayor Environment Convention on Wetlands

🙌🏻✨ Thank you to Lee Valley Park rangers Kit Strange and Yasmin for supporting our efforts in giving our beloved #RiverLeaDiversion some much-needed TLC and to Thames21 for insuring us. #HealthyRivers

Join us at #WatersideCafe #StonebridgeLock for Deck The Hulls! Free drop-in seasonal crafts & wreath making. Do your Christmas pressie shop:preloved gifts, handmade crafts & goodies to raise funds for the Swan & Waterbird Rescue Service (please bring cash we can’t accept cards).

On #EastHaleAllotment plotting & planning for 2024 when the ♀#ClendishMarsh Kestrel took a critter from close proximity to the dead hedge we’d built previously. This is why we do it! We ❤️ the wondrous wilds of #TottenhamMarshes #LeeValleyWildlife

Lovely mince pies being made this morning on #walthamstowmarshes Lilla Flicka Bakery which will be open the 24th December, tomorrow until midday! Come and get your last minute mince pies!!!

We started 2024 as we plan to go on with fun company, outdoors, in the wondrous wilds on our #StonebridgeLock BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #NewYearPlantHunt. Despite distractions of ye #TottenhamMarshes endemics, fungi & a snail who was too shy to say their name,we spotted 28 species in flower ✨

Excellent honorary warden task yesterday Lee Valley Park building a dead hedge round the pond, using left over willow with Michael Slater Kathy McGowan and Jay Lloyd thank you so much, looks amazing 😀

Why should #volunteers who 💚 their #RiverLea be put at risk pulling heavy fly-tipping up steep muddy banks out of contaminated water?! A pollution boom needs to be installed on Thames Water 💧 #LeaFloodReliefChannel with vehicle access,&maintained by HGVs&paid,trained staff #SDG8

Glanville Fritillary Caterpillars awake in Surrey, 5.2.2024

Really great volunteer task today Lee Valley Park in Clendish Wood, on Tottenham Marshes. Woodchipping the path and doing a deep litterpick and tidy up. Thank you all!!! Great day!!

17 volunteers and 2 Rangers spent Valentine's Day at Tottenham Marshes (Lee Valley Park), litter picking and laying 300 yards of woodchip path. Thank you to everyone involved. Thank you Brenda for the photos!

Kit Strange

Good task today with Honorary warden Kathy McGowan and Tim, making a dead hedge at the entrance to Wilde marsh West, really good job, looks amazing!!! Thank you!!

Jill's Botanicals art exhibition is coming back to Lee Valley Park Myddelton House Gardens this June (Monday 17 June -Sunday 23 June, 10:00 - 16:00)! Come and see Jill's beautiful artwork in our coach house and maybe even take some home with you.

A large Eel fighting for its life, in the River Lee Navigation, cormorant is winning! Horseshoe Bridge Walthamstow Make your local ♥ly youtu.be/5bqiu0ePULo?fe…

Magical day surveying for signs of Water vole in our wondrous wild #RiverLea Diversion, #TottenhamMarshes Nature Reserve #SINC #LeeValleyWildlife

Lea Bridge Water Works Hackney Water Works. In the 1690s Francis Tyssen installed a waterwheel on the site of a fishery weir at Jeremy’s Ferry. The water raised was piped to a reservoir at Clapton and from there to local properties. These works fell into disrepair but in 1760

Weekend wind-down, getting to know our wild river critters! Thanks to Rangers Kit Strange & Alf for joining us on our 3rd Riverfly Partnership survey, helping to haul out a fly-tipped mattress & to Lee Valley Park for disposing of it. Our ❤️ our #RiverLea Diversion runs deep #reciprocity

A well-cared for herd of English Longhorn cows in #EppingForest being let back out to graze at Fairmead, following a quick 'MOT' with the team, where feet & horns were checked & batteries in collars replaced if needed. All passed with flying colours as healthy, happy cows.