Monday, 28 November 2022
Saturday, 29 October 2022
Friday, 28 October 2022
Thursday, 27 October 2022
5-10-2022: Improving Penrhyn Road campus for invertibrates
Saturday, 23 April 2022
23-04-2022: Event notification
Interested in growing food, gardening and getting outdoors?
Then this opportunity which was brought to our attention by one of the fantastic Green Impact teams may be for you.
See the poster for all of the details: if you click on the image it will open up fully on your screen :)
Wednesday, 6 April 2022
05-04-2022: Spring roundup invasives, orchards and moths oh my!
So I realised that I’ve been a bit lax on updating the blog from the end of January. So here’s a mini blog with more photos and some updates from some of our events in from late Jan to April!
Tuesday, 22 February 2022
22-02-2022: Going for gold with the Hedgehog Friendly Campus Scheme
Thursday, 27 January 2022
27-01-22: Instructions for the University RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch(es)
Surveys from previous years - can we beat the numbers? |
Many thanks for signing up to do a RSPB bird count on one of our sites between Friday the 28th of Jan and Monday the 30th of Jan 2022.
This post is for anyone who has signed up for one of the Kingston University RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch surveys at the last minute and so haven't got the joining instructions from us, as we are all out and about with our binoculars :)
- The RSPB website tells you how to do the surveys https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/everything-you-need-to-know-about-big-garden-birdwatch/
- This link will take you to a sheet with a few more species that we see on our sites
- and this link will take you to a printable version of the RSPB BGBW booklet for 2022.
How the counts help birds:
- These counts are important as they contribute to a large citizen science project which helps monitor birds in the UK and feeds into science projects. Our surveys also help the university know what species we have on our sites.
- When we do the counts at KU, we also count the birds that we can
see in the trees and gardens of the our neighbours and on the street if we
can see them from our location, as they are in the area and by knowing
they are there, we can make the right decisions on how we manage our
habitats on our site to help them.
In addition (click on bold text below for links):
· if you are a staff member, each count counts as one biodiversity event
for your 2022 Green Impact scheme
· if you are a student, these events can count towards your KingstonAward.
Instructions:
·
The
count takes 1 hour.
These are the sites that we are surveying as part of the university. So far we have at least 1 person committed to doing one survey per site, but as different people might see different numbers of birds at different times of day, we welcome multiple survey efforts at our sites to maximise our chances of recording all the species using our sites.
Site list |
Roehampton Vale |
Clay Hills |
Town House |
Penrhyn Road forensic
garden and pond |
Portland Road by
the blue bridge |
Middle Mill –
around the halls |
Knights Park –
river terrace |
Reg Bailey
building |
River house |
Kingston Hill |
Dorich House |
Tolworth Court |
75 Penrhyn Road |
All the best
Sivi