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
Leader - Simon Ashley Yuvalr, CC BY-SA 3.0, Turtle Dove Car share trip leaving from Cheapside Carpark in Stroud at 8:00am - Arriving at Martin Down top carpark around 10:30am. This often an excellent trip and probably offers the best chance of one seeing a turtle dove this year. The turtle dove is a species… Read More »Martin Down
Leader - Nick Goatman Shantanu Kuveskar, CC BY-SA 4.0, Hobby Our ever popular series of local walks at local hotspot Frampton, continues led by patch expert Nick Goatman. We'll be looking for the special birds and other wildlife of this area. Meet at 08.30 in the small car park which is situated near the bottom… Read More »Frampton In Summer
Leader: Susanne Zamze Ron Knight from Seaford,CC BY 2.0, Great Spotted Woodpecker Massive thanks to Susanne Zamze for leading this walk. We’ll meet at the Reserve Car Park at 10:00am Lower Woods Nature Reserve is a vast ancient woodland located in Gloucestershire, England. Although woodland birding can be challenge in the summer – when leaves… Read More »Lower Woods Nature Reserve: A Haven for Birds, Plants, and Insects
Leader - Simon Ashley Matt Witt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons We’re running a three day trip to South Devon around the weekend of 2-5 August. We'll be based near Brixham, the intention is to spend one day on a pelagic trip, and see a few sea specialists and for the remaining days we’ll… Read More »Devon Residential 2-5th Aug
Leader - Simon Ashley Hugh Venables / Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus) September is a transitional month, marking the end of summer and the beginning of autumn migration. Timing our visit hopefully means we’ll get to see a mix of summer visitors, resident birds, those arriving for winter and those migratory species passing through. We’ve visited Radipole Lake… Read More »Radipole Lake & Weymouth area
Leader - Dot Jones Irvin calicut, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Just over the Gloucestershire border is Chipping Sodbury Common. A fabulous open, scrubby area with a few random hedgerows - is great place to pick up some migrants and lingering summer visitorrs. We'll be looking for Winchat, Redstarts and hoping for the odd… Read More »Chipping Sodbury Common
Leader - Nick Goatman Swamy HKM, CC BY-SA 4.0, Osprey Nick has been birding this area for over 15 years so we will hopefully be able to connect with plenty of bird species and also find other wildlife of interest. A chance of a lingering young Osprey, ducks and geese returning. Do come and join… Read More »Frampton – Autumn
Leader: Dot Jones Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0,Northern Shoveler Meet in the car-park at WWT Slimbridge at 9:30am - Wintering birds should be here in good numbers so it looks to be a great trip with our own super knowledgeable leader.
Leader - Simon Ashley. Goldcrest This is always a popular trip with ourmembers – Chew Valley lake has a number of free publicly accessible viewpoints which can give great views of wintering wildfowl.We will meet at one of the best known of these Herriot’s Bridge on the A368 which is on the south side of… Read More »Chew Valley Lakes