Wildlife Circus

                      Brown Hairstreak egg on Blackthorn 1 of 4 found by R. Zussner.   Kingston Cemetery Nature Group are a group of volunteers meeting once a month at the Cemetery to carry out a range of practical tasks that support nature conservation. The cemetery is a Grade 1 Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC). The groups tasks are relevant to the designation and include: tree and hedge planting, litter picking and some bramble clearance.  Previous posts on this blog highlight the significance of the CHEGD and mycorrhizal fungi that have been recorded see  Cemetery fungi  2020     2025   2019  2016     2014  . There are also posts on other taxa such as trees Cemetery Trees  orchids and Slow Worms.   Y esterday I photographed these Brown Hairstreak eggs, kindly shown to me by Ron, who found them recently. The photo below shows two orange eggs, on...

    Biodiversity Checklist Hook park, Ecologist qualifications Kingston Council and Ecology Requirements Kingston also references professional competence in its ecology-related planning guidance , often aligned with: The NPPF Natural England standing advice BS42020:2013 Biodiversity – Code of Practice These documents collectively emphasise that ecological information must be prepared by a competent professional , which Kingston interprets as: An ecologist who can demonstrate competence, normally through CIEEM membership and relevant experience In professional practice, CIEEM guidance is interpreted as requiring that: Ecological reports name the author(s) The author(s)’ qualifications and/or CIEEM membership grade are stated This information is normally included: On the report title page, or   In a “Personnel” or “Author details” section Failure to do so can be challenged as non-compliant with CIEEM guidance, particularly in planning and appeal contexts.   ...

                       Hogsmill Community Garden indicating the suns position 2pm 5.1.26 25/02541/FUL The proposal is for  demolition of existing student residential blocks at Middle Mill (Block A and Blocks G-L), and erection of a new 5-storey purpose-built teaching building for Kingston University with ground floor cafe and gallery space, associated access, blue-badge parking, landscaping and ancillary development. This is work in progress and subject to change. The Ecological Assessment prepared by Buro Happold (September 2025) states that biological records were obtained from the Surrey Biological Records Centre, rather than from Greenspace Information for Greater London (GiGL). This has significant implications for data coverage. Personally, I have supplied GiGL with approximately 17,000 biological records collected since 1994 from surveys undertaken across the Greater London area, whereas only a few hundred records—...