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 Issue No. 9

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THE SOCIETY WOULD LIKE YOUR HELP KEEPING TRACK OF BIRD SPECIES IN OUR PARISH

If you can spare an hour on either 28 or 29 January to count birds in your garden while drinking a cup or two of tea or coffee? Please consider taking part in the RSPB - Bird Watch

• 1 February: “Fruit Growing in Kent”: At the Greenstreet Methodist Hall in Lynsted Lane (near London Road). A talk entitled 'The National Fruit Collection at Brogdale' to be given by Peter Griffiths of Brogdale National Fruit Collection.

• 10th February: 19.30pm: The Orchard Group invite Society Members to a meeting with Shirley Thompson of the Kent Bat Group - in the Lynsted Church Community Room.  The meeting is to hear about the results so far from the Lynsted bat group, what they mean, what further study can be done. If you are interested, please let the Chairman know.

• 15th March: “Ancient Farm Buildings”: Ray Harrison (retired Architectural Conservation Officer) will talk on 'Historic Barns of Kent'. Venue and details to follow.

• June: Heritage Walk led by Peter Bell.  We want to identify two distinctive buildings in the Parish for Peter to sleuth and describe to Members.  We should be glad of volunteers to have their house included in this walkabout - we do have one volunteer in the Claxfield Lane side of the Parish, so another nearby would be great.  Otherwise we can explore with Peter whether this works for him.

• 8th April (Saturday): Conducted Walk in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty:Guided Tour, led by Richard Moyse from the Kent Wildlife Trust. Roughly 4 miles, in the Doddington area. Ending at a pub for lunch

There are other events run by the Kent History Federation - noted on the events page.  Our Society is affiliated, so Members of our Society can take part.

• Search the Website - Finding your way around the website should be easier now with its new search engine - let us know what you think.
• Stedlyn Farm Archaeological Dig Report (Wessex Archaeology)
• New Links - Household Energy Efficiency Report
• Feeding birds in Winter - article
• Bird Box is back!  Two birds showing an interest. Although as the winter has hardened, the blue tits have gone AWOL!

More Events can be found through the recently launched www.Lynsted.com - Community Portal - and the growing (pardon the pun) www.lynsted-orchard.org.uk.