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

Leader: Mike Robinson Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer), Baltasound by Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0 An early winter walk around the Lower Moor Lakes and hides. We will meet at the Lower Moor Visitor Centre car park at 9.30. The car park entrance is at ST007939.  We plan to move on to Twitcher’s Gate to see… Read More »Cotswold Water Park

Adrian Platt / Avocet on the Exe Something we haven't tried in a while and are really pleased to offer - we're running a trip to the River Exe to do a 3 hour Bird Cruise - and should give us a great opportunity see close up some of the many wintering wildfowl and waders that make… Read More »Birding Cruise Exe Estuary

Leader - Dot Jones Savithri Singh, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A real treat this one - winter at Slimbridge is one of the best times to go there are 1000's of over wintering birds and we have the benefit of being guided round by one Slimbridge's Guide in the Hide our very own… Read More »Slimbridge Hides – Winter visit

Leader - Amanda Sultan-Black Walter Baxter / A murmuration of starlings at Gretna We might not see exactly 1,000,000  starlings - but with a bit of luck we should get to see a spectacular murmuration of starlings as they come into roost around Ham Wall reserve.   We'll make an afternoon of this one and start as all… Read More »1 Million Starlings!