NEWS

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We will be hosting a free zoom talk with Catherine Day on 23rd June at 7pm.

Catherine will tell us all about Swifts and how they are just one of the most marvellous birds on earth!

She will also explain the problems they are facing and how we can help them.

click on the button below to register for this event.

We are pleased to announce that WildChiswick has taken over the reigns of the Chiswick Swift Project.  The project was started in 2014 by Catherine Day who has now moved from the area.  Catherine contacted us and asked if we could continue her work.  We were of course honoured to be asked and will certainly take on the challenge.

Click through to our Swift Page for more information about swifts and how you can help. 

Email us on hello@wildchiswick.com if you would like to know about how to purchase and install swift box or to report sightings of nesting swifts in your area

ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH, ELMWOOD, GROVE PARK 7pm-8.30pm, 8TH JUNE 2022. 

Would you like to know how to make a wildlife pond?  Would you like to attract amphibians to your current pond and learn how best to ensure they flourish? 

Then join WildChiswick and Emily Millhouse from Froglife to hear about British amphibians and how we can help them.  As a biologist, Emily has worked across wetlands and various nature reserves and parks before joining Froglife. 

She is passionate about people and nature coming together, particularly in an urban environment.  Urban ponds, no matter how small, are a lifeline for all sorts of wonderful creatures and green gardens are vital passages connecting one pond to another. 

Click button below to register.

£5.00 per person payable at the door (Cash or Card) 12 yrs and under FOC (must be accompanied by an adult) Tea, coffee and biccies upon arrival - plus raffle!  

(Photo credited to PTES)

This is really important to allow our hedgehogs to move the mile they require each night safely and to help them find habitat that is suitable for nesting, mating and food supplies.

We need to provide a green highway by cutting a small 13cm hole into our fences and walls to give hedgehogs access.

Please Join us in creating this highway.  It is the most important thing you can do for hedgehogs.

If you would like to be part of the Chiswick Hedgehog Highway, please book now!

We enjoyed the evening in January with  Mary Tester from Thames Seal Watch.  

For those of you who missed this talk, you may wish to read the blog written by Jo Gilbert, WildChiswick  for Chiswick Calendar.

This blog talks about some of the details of the State of the Thames Report and the highlights for Jo whilst reading about some of the creatures to be found in the waters of the Thames.  Click the button below to read:

WildChiswick worked with ZSL LondonHogwatch this year to place cameras across areas of Chiswick to monitor for hedgehog activity.  Today they released their findings from monitoring across London boroughs over several years.  This showed that green spaces with mixed habitat, allotments and having access to gardens is important for the survival of hedgehogs across London.  

This supports the work WildChiswick is doing in encouraging people to open up their gardens to these lovely creatures now at risk of extinction (British Mammal Red List).

Please could you contribute to our fundraiser to buy equipment to make a hedgehog highway across Chiswick?  

Click on photo above to read ZSL report.

We were delighted to host an evening with Mike Toms, Head of Communications, The British Trust for Ornithology last month.

We have been asked by several if this talk was recorded.  We are afraid not!

However, Jo Gilbert did recently write a blog about it for Chiswick Calendar which outlines the main point spoken about by Mike Toms.

Please visit the blog  by clicking on the button below:

Out with Barnes Hedgehogs, we put in our first hedgehog holes to begin the job of creating a Chiswick hedgehog highway.  Book your hole to help extend the Chiswick Hedgehog Highway