Frampton in Winter

Leader: Nick Goatman

You may have just finished the last of the turkey, and your body weight might just be 80% mince pies but it’s time to shake out of that post-festive stupor and get your year list off to a cracking start.  What better way to do it than with our ever-popular seasonal trip to Frampton, led by local patch officianado Nick Goatman?

Frampton, with its diverse range of habitats, offers a great opportunity to see some excellent birds. At the time of posting, there was a Yellow-browed Warbler on site.  The Yellow-browed Warbler is a tiny bird from Siberia, characterised by its distinctive yellow “eyebrow.” Finding one in Gloucestershire now is pretty unusual; though, eerily, there was one here last January.  The bird is completely lost! Instead of flying southeast to spend the winter in warm places like Thailand, it took a wrong turn and flew to the west to England.

In addition to this little gem, we should see good numbers of wildfowl, ducks, egrets, geese and swans together with an assortment of other birds. We meet at the car park art the end of the green at 8:30am