Heathrow Biodiversity

Its cow time of year again! Love having the young Belted galloways from @SurreyWT. They graze our meadows and open up scrubby areas for us.

Staff from across Heathrow braved the cold Thursday to help us plant 60 trees at our Colne Valley and Cains Lane sites. Great job by everyone involved! 🌳🌳🌳 #NationalTreeWeek

This morning #invertebrate #rivermonitoring #hanworthairpark. Tuesday evening #batwatch @HeathrowBio @Mrsfarahkamran2 @nkaleem_ @SeemaMalhotra1 @BridgeHousePond @CBezzant @ChrisGPackham @Cllrsamiach @LBofHounslow @GreenFeltham @Griffo2018 @HanworthPkHouse @HounslowGreens

The perfect accompaniment to test out this weeks hard work ! 🍯

Another honey harvest done for the year, helped once again by Heathrow Engineering team. A great team effort from everyone. A huge thank you once again to @Green_Corridor for letting us use their premises again. Tracey and David were amazing. 123 jars from 2 hives. 🐝 🍯

I’ve just been advised it is a first species for @HeathrowAirport 👍🦋

A very accommodating Brown Hairstreak on Princes Lakes today. #Butterfly #BigButterflyCount

Read our latest blog entry on cattle conservation grazing at Princes Lakes. 🐮 ehmltd.com/blog/fluffy-la…

@markmiwurd Wow! Impressive

When the weather isn't to good and you have fresh homegrown blueberries there's only one thing to bake 😋😋 #blueberrycheesecake

One of the most extraordinary survivals in the Colne Valley Regional Park is #StainesMoor. This ancient landscape is now hemmed in on all sides by creeping urbanisation, but it retains a unique atmosphere that gives no hint of this on the ground. Do visit colnevalleypark.org.uk/locations/stai…

Spotted at Stockley Park! A spectacular stag beetle! Like many other species, stag beetles are in decline. You can help by letting PTES when you see one. You can record any sightings on their website stagbeetles.ptes.org #SpottedAtStockley #StockleyPark

@markmiwurd We think so

@HeathrowBio Well done Tom, hopefully a rewarding career in wildlife beckons?

We’ve been hosting Tom Wells all week for his school Work Experience from Bishop Wand school in Sunbury. He helped with site surveys, eDNA testing, solitary bee surveys, Invasive plant control, building a mustelid camera trap made out of an old shelving unit Thank you Tom 👍

Looking forward to the Colne Valley Festival Fortnight: 22nd July-4th August. A full programme of events and activities for everyone to enjoy across the whole Regional Park. Spaces limited so secure your ticket now! colnevalleypark.org.uk/festival-fortn…

@Colne_Valley @centricaplc Wow!! That’s an impressive count! 👏

146 bags of Himalayan balsam picked by these fabulous volunteers from @centricaplc today at King Cup Farm #Denham. Thanks for the immense impact you made reducing this insidious invasive species and thanks Steve for organising. Great time had by all.

Always a good sign to see young grass snakes on the sites. Double whammy under this mat. possibly yearlings. 🐍 #herptile #snakes #conservation

This is a still shot of one feeding. Not on the twin rivers sadly. Gives you a better idea of what they look like.

Watched a Hummingbird Hawk-moth on the Twin Rivers today. Amazing day flying moths with a long proboscis. Fascinating to watch as it hovered over the vegetation. #moths

Bookings are Open. The Colne Valley Festival Fortnight is a full programme of events and activities for everyone to enjoy across the whole Regional Park. Spaces are limited so secure your ticket now! colnevalleypark.org.uk/festival-fortn…

@regulus_uk @Colne_Valley @ColneCAN Yep. Never ceases!

@HeathrowBio Good work! It's an ongoing battle throughout the Colne Valley. If it's not the balsams it's the Floating Pennywort! All Invasive Speies. @Colne_Valley @ColneCAN

Invasive plants, Himalayan and Orange Balsam, on the twin rivers, Duke of Northumberland and the Longford, need to be removed each year. Not too bad in the hot weather 😊 ☀️