Sunday 26 September 2010
Keyhaven and Pennington Marshes
Meet 9:30am in Keyhaven reserve car park.
A favourite venue. The Reserve is of international importance for the large numbers of breeding, feeding and roosting birds that it supports.
Sunday 24 October 2010
Titchfield Haven
Pick up arrangements to be announced.
Coach trip with Oxford RSPB Group. Over 200 species have been seen at Titchfield - how many will we see?
Sunday 21 November 2010
Rutland Water
Pick up arrangements to be announced.
Coach trip with Oxford RSPB group. the breeding ospreys will have returned to Africa but there is likely to be over
20,000 wintering wildfowl present. There are 27 bird hides and nature trails for you to enjoy.
Tuesday 28 December 2010
Bank Holiday morning walk - Baulking Lake
Meet 10.30am near Baulking Church.
Walk away the excesses of the festive season. Off the A417 Wantage to Faringdon Road.
Sunday 23 January 2011
Blashford Lakes, Avon Valley, Ringwood
Meet 10.30am in visitor centre car park.
Off A338. A new venue for the group Blashford Lakes is a series of former gravel pits surrounded by grassland and willow, birch and alder woodland.
The Dockens Water stream flows through the reserve which is bounded by ancient woodland of Oak and Beech.
Sunday 27 February 2011
Moor Green Lakes, Blackwater Valley
Meet 10am in reserve car park.
Near Sandhurst, west of A321. The reserve, opened in 1993, has been
established through the careful restoration of gravel workings. Covering 36 hectares it
is an important site for breeding and wintering birds and there are three lakes with gravel islands that attract wildfowl for breeding and loafing.
A number of scrapes have also been created to attract wading birds.
Sunday 20 March 2011
London Wetlands Centre
Coach trip with Oxford RSPB Group. The best urban wildlife site in Europe. Located next to the Thames it is close to the heart of the capital
but when you enter, you leave London behind. Spot wildlife such as kingfishers and bitterns and explore attractions that include the ‘bird airport’
observatory.
Sunday 17 April 2011
Frensham Country Park Farnham
Meet 10am in car park by visitor centre.
Frensham Common is a fine example of open Surrey heathland. It consists of dry and wet heath, some woodland,
scrub and ponds. It is of great importance for heathland insects, reptiles and birds, such as the Nightjar, Stonechat and Whinchat.
Sunday 22 May 2011
Nagshead and Highnam Woods
Pick up arrangements to be announced.
Coach trip with Oxford RSPB Local Group. Nagshead has one of the most impressive lists of breeding woodland birds anywhere in the UK.
Summer visitors such as wood warblers, pied flycatchers, redstarts and nightjars join scarce resident species such as lesser spotted woodpeckers,
woodcocks and hawfinches.
Sunday 12 June 2011
Langford Lakes, Wylye Valley (Wilts)
Meet 10am in car park.
Langford Lakes Nature Reserve (Wiltshire Wildlife Trust) consists of three lakes and a half-mile stretch of the River Wylye.
The reserve has four fully accessible bird hides overlooking the lakes and a Visitor Centre with toilets.