Leader - Ken Cservenka Francesco Veronesi from Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0,Goshawk We'll be in the right place at the right time - hopefully with the right weather. So we have a good chance of seeing Goshawks and if we're really lucky we'll see them performing their version of the sky dance courtship. This area… Read More »New Fancy View – Forest of Dean
Leader: Dot Jones Skylark Neil Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0 Managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) Steart Marshes, is an expansive and biodiverse wetland area located on the north-west coast of Somerset, England. It represents a significant habitat for a wide array of wildlife, particularly bird species, but also includes mammals like otters, and… Read More »Steart Marshes
Ken Billington, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Learn how to make a swift box, all materials provided. Meet experts from Stroud Swift Group and give a suggested £15 donation to take your box home.
Leader: Nick Goatman Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, Sand Martins Time for some early spring migrants. Sand Martins aplenty. Meet in the small car park at the bottom end of the green on the track to the sailing lake at 8.30am. Nick our resident expert will be leading this walk.
Leader: Malcolm Royal Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY 2.0, Stone Curlew This is one of my all time favourite trips. - trip to some hidden and less well known areas of Salisbury Plain and surrounding areas. Details of exact time and meeting place may change as we get closer to the event but… Read More »Wiltshire Downs
Leader - Ken Cservenka A. tour around this local nature reserve, targets include ealry spring migrants. We might hear a cuckoo. Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, Sedge Warbler
Leader - Simon Ashley A very leisurely stroll around one of Gloucestershire's preeminent butterfly spots, we hope to see some of the early spring butterflies. More importantly we'll have ice cream when we've finished. Spotted on Previous visits around same time of year Duke of Burgundy Green Hairstreak Common Blue Brown Argus Small Copper Small… Read More »Butterflies of Rodborough Common
Leader - Barbara Wood Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wood Warbler Your chance to some of those elusive summer visitors, Redstart, Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher. Together with Crossbill, Siskin, Dipper, Firecrest and Goshawk. What more could you want. We meet at the Nagshead carpark. The path can be muddy so please… Read More »Forest of Dean and Nagshead
Leader - Dot Jones Afsarnayakkan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Garganey Great opportunity to visit Slimbridge with our own resident expert to steer us round and give us the best chance to see everything that will be there.
Leader Simon Ashley Frank Vassen from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY 2.0, Woodlark Who doesn't love the beautiful liquid song with a downward lilt that belongs to the Woodlark. We'll go in search of these mystic birds - sadly lost to Gloucestershire. We'll need to leave early to have the best chance of catching them, depart… Read More »Greenham Common
Leader: Barbara Wood Martin Mecnarowski (http://www.photomecan.eu/), CC BY-SA 3.0, Spotted Flycatcher Rough Bank is an SSSI owned and managed by Butterfly Conservation. At this time of year 10 species of butterfly are possible as well as good numbers of birds. On a past club trip to the site I recall seeing, among others, Redstart, Spotted… Read More »Birds and Butterflies of Rough Bank
Leader: Ken Cservenka UPDATE: The weather forecast is terrible for Thursday, so we've now moved the event Tuesday evening (11/6). Apologies for any inconvience and the vaguries of the British weather. Imran Shah from Islamabad, Pakistan, CC BY-SA 2.0 Nightjar We meet at 7.30 pm in the lay-by near the stone works on the B4228,… Read More »Nightjars in the Forest of Dean