Birding Sites

The Vale

Our home patch with lots of great birding sites
Slimbridge - Premier Gloucestershire Birding Site. A regular outing always led by top guides.
Frampton - An excellent well watched site 4 visits per year tracking the seasons
North Norfolk Coast

From the Snettisham Spectaculr to Cley anfd all those cool sites in between - we try and do a regular residential
Pembrokeshire

Puffins galore - A fabulous wildlife area - taking in Skomer / Pelagic Trips / and National Park Sites.
Spurn

Hard to beat as a destination - we try and attend the superb Autumnal MigFest on alternate years.
Forest of Dean

several trips in a typical year. Visiting RSPB Nagshead / Woorgreens Crabtree Hill / New Fancy View.
We target Flycatchers / Nightjar / Wood Warbler / Woodcock / Goshawk / Dipper / Crossbill / Hawfinch
Midlands

Rutland Water - Osprey Mecca
Attenborough Reserve
Severn Estuary

Severn Estuary - several sites along this Ramsar designated area
From Severn Beach and Aust - renowned for storm vagrants and Short-Eared Owls
Sharpness through to and Oldbury Powerstation - reliable sites for Black Redstart
Somerset Levels

Fabulous Avian hotspots
Avalon Marshes , Ham Wall, West Hay, Shapwick Heath
A sky full of starlings and a great place to see bittern
Steart Marshes

A great WWT site we visit fairly regularly
Dorset

RSPB sites in Weymouth - Always a great day out
Portland Location of Great Bird Observatory - A favourite amongst our members to visit.
Spring Wheaters
Wiinter Purple Sandpiper
Berks and Sussex

Knepp - rewilding scheme
Greenham Common
Selsey Bill and Pagham Harbour
So many great places to visit
Hampshire

New Forest and Keyhaven
Great Birding destinations
Exe

Bowling Green Marsh
Exe Marshes and not forgetting Dawlish Warren.
Newport Wetlands

RSPB reserve and Goldcliffe Lagoons
More great sites