WORKDAYS IN MAYOW PARK 7th & 14th April 2011

 JOIN US FOR 2 WORKDAYS IN MAYOW PARK

Friends of Mayow Park with Nature’s Gym

DATE: Thursday 7^th April and Thursday 14^th April

TIME: From 11am to 2pm

WHY: To develop the new Pavilion Triangle area.  

Help turn the Pavilion Triangle into a community food-growing resource:

plant fruit bushes, herbs and create a woodchip path.

Meet by the Pavilion.

Please wear suitable shoes and clothes for gardening.

Dacres Wood Nature Reserve Sunday 27 March 2011

Dacres Wood nature reserve and field centre open day
Friends of Mayow Park with  Forest Hill Society have organised an open day at  Dacres Wood Nature Reserve on Sunday 27th March 2011 from 1pm to 4pm. There will be history talks in the Field Centre, guided walks, nature activities,  gardening tips and refreshments. A great way to celebrate the return of spring!
 We will use the entrance via the field centre, which is off Dacres Road,  down the unmarked driveway between Homefield House and Catling Close

TREE FELLING MARCH 2011

There has been concern at the tree felling during the past week in Mayow Park. Word from Lewisham Greenscene is that the trees were diseased and needed to come down.

The Friends of Mayow Park will be talking to Greenscene about plans for future tree planting so that this park will still look magnificent into the next century.
We have asked that, in future when such works are undertaken,  park users are given advance warning so that they will be assured about  the purpose of the work. 

FOMP 19^th March 2011

Advance notice film night in July

We are still in March and already plans are being prepared for a film night in Mayow Park in July. So get your diaries and note the date:

Advance notice: Date for your diary

        FREE FILM SHOW

WEDNESDAY 13^TH JULY 2011 from 8PM-11PM [time to be confirmed]

For one night only, Sydenham Arts Festival will transform Mayow Park into an open-air cinema.

Following 2009’s screening of The Bride of Frankenstein and last year’s Fantastic Mr Fox, this year film fans can get to see the original version of classic British crime caper The Italian Job, starring Michael Caine. One of its most famous scenes was actually filmed locally in Crystal Palace Park – see if you can guess which one!

The film will be introduced by film historian and broadcaster Matthew Sweet. The main feature will be preceded by short films made by local film-makers.

Bird walk 6th March 2011

Twelve hardy folk came on the bird walk around Mayow Park, at 7am on a cold but dry Sunday 6th  March 2011.

We had hardly begun the walk when we were confronted by two male blackbirds squabbling!

As we walked round we looked at possible nesting holes in the ancient oaks and found holes of different sizes to suit a range of tree nesting birds, the largest big enough for stock doves.
Thank you to Paul for leading today's enjoyable walk.
Thanks also to those who joined us.

Here is a list (in no particular order) of the birds seen:

Blackbirds

Black headed gulls

Wood pigeons

Chaffinch

Blue tits

Starlings

Great tits

Parakeets

Redwing

Magpies

Stock doves

Carrion crows

Robin

Pair of mistle thrushes

Greenfinch

Birds we heard:
 

Song Thrush    
Wren
Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming

Bird Walk

   Bird walk in Mayow Park                                                  

When:

Sunday 6^th March 2011 at 7am

Where:

Meet at the Pavilion, near the Burghill Road entrance

The walk will take approximately 1 hour.

Please bring binoculars if you have them.

Updates in Mayow Park 3rd Feb 2011

Glendales's maintenance team have been hard at work in Mayow Park

5-A-SIDE FOOTBALL:
Regular users will have seen the markings painted on the grass for the 5-a-side football pitch. This is great news. Towards the end of 2010 we were promised that a designated football area would be provided, towards the western side of the Oval.
If you know of a group or club that would like to use the pitch, the person to contact is Paul Harper, Glendale's Sports development Officer.

His contact details are:Paul.harper@glendale-services.co.uk                                      

or phone him on 020 8318 3986

CRICKET SQUARE

Last week the unsightly wire mesh fencing around the cricket square was replaced by chestnut paling. This still provides protection for the specially seeded grass area but looks far more attractive.

STATE OF THE GRASS VERGES

While there is support for the improvements mentioned above, there is still concern that maintenance vehicles are damanging the grass verges unnecessarily. It is understood that vehicles need to go across the grass when collecting leaves, but there is evidence of damage to the edges which could have been avoided.