Contact with wildlife is a valuable experience for us all. Young children, in particular, respond positively to the natural world. Certain plants and animals are excellent indicators of the quality of our environment.
Many plants are edible and medicinal.
These include some seaweeds, lichens and fungi as well as many familiar flowering plants. Scientists are concerned that many plants will disappear, taking their medicinal secrets with them. The adult is identified by its white underbelly and is a familiar and unwelcome summer visitor to Bexley. It can be seen gathering sticky mud to use in nest-building beneath the eaves of our houses. Kingfisher A surprisingly small but dazzlingly attractive Bexley resident.