Kent Field Club, founded in 1955, aims to study, record, and deepen the understanding and appreciation of the natural history of Kent, UK. Find more, see our publications, and/or join us here https://www.kentfieldclub.org.uk/
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If you've enjoyed our book about Ranscombe Farm, and want to see the place & the plants face-to-face (or if you haven't got the book, but would like a copy at the bargain price of £9), then why not join the free guided walk with the author on Weds 10 June? Details & booking here tinyurl.com/yc7rtpmn
It's not every day you get to record in the grounds of a real castle! Yesterday, we were at Allington Castle nr Maidstone finding some interesting plants & invertebrates. Names in alt text. #KentNature
The Kent Wildlife Conference is always busy, engaging, exciting - and this year's (on Sat 24 October) will be no different. Subjects include Nightingales, GCNs & Francis Rose's 'lost' Flora of Kent.
You really don't want to miss out. Really.
Full details & booking here: tinyurl.com/WildConf2026
As it's World Bee Day, you might like to know that Geoff Allen's excellent book on the Bees, Wasps & Ants of Kent is still available from our website www.kentfieldclub.org.uk/bees-wasps-a.... #bees #hymenoptera
Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡
One of the showcase flowers on Dungeness NNR at the moment
Marsh Cinquefoil (Comarum palustre) flowering near the Wigwams, Long Pits, Dungeness
Reappeared after a 30 year absence after some Willow reduction and habitat works
#Wildflowerhour
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Out yesterday to recce some sites for @kentfieldclub.bsky.social visits. Nice to find a couple of fairly uncommon insects - the bug Aphanus rolandri on a Low Weald farm & the beetle Platystomos albinus at @kentwildlife.bsky.social's Ironhurst Valley. #KentNature
Bonsai Bank, an awesome chalky glade. Ten orchid species seen including hundreds of Lady Orchids, the star species here; Most Ladys were frazzled by the May heatwave but several seen in good flower
An excellent trip, despite rainy interludes, to Hangrove bank near Downe with @kentfieldclub.bsky.social
Walking in Darwin’s footsteps we saw orchids galore, grasshoppers, bugs and a highlight was seeing a small blue butterfly.
A couple of places still available for my upcoming tour at New Hythe. The Lesser Emperors are on the wing now. www.naturetrek.co.uk/tours/the-dr.... @britishdragonflies.bsky.social #KentDragonflies
Kent Field Club
Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity