Birding Sites
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The Vale
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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
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From the Snettisham Spectaculr to Cley anfd all those cool sites in between - we try and do a regular residential
Pembrokeshire
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Puffins galore - A fabulous wildlife area - taking in Skomer / Pelagic Trips / and National Park Sites.
Spurn
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Hard to beat as a destination - we try and attend the superb Autumnal MigFest on alternate years.
Forest of Dean
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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
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Rutland Water - Osprey Mecca
Attenborough Reserve
Severn Estuary
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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
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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
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A great WWT site we visit fairly regularly
Dorset
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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
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Knepp - rewilding scheme
Greenham Common
Selsey Bill and Pagham Harbour
So many great places to visit
Hampshire
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New Forest and Keyhaven
Great Birding destinations
Exe
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Bowling Green Marsh
Exe Marshes and not forgetting Dawlish Warren.
Newport Wetlands
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RSPB reserve and Goldcliffe Lagoons
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