Reports from our outdoor trips. Like to find out more? Join us on our next outdoor trip.
14 of us met in the crowded car park and we were delighted to welcome two new friends to our group. There were many birdwatchers – no doubt on the quest to find the rare long-billed dowitcher which had been seen on the east flood around 8 o’clock in the morning and for a few days previously. […]
Ten members of the Group met at this relatively new site which we have only visited once before. Created on the site of Mucking Landfill Site, there are still memories of the history of the site, with domed grass and flower meadows, created from the capped landfill and metal cranes which were used to offload […]
A large group of members and non-members met at Cliffe Pools RSPB reserve. Some were hoping to see the black-winged stilts that I had mentioned in a previous post and some had heard rumours of a marsh sandpiper…….Inside information sources (ie Norman) had, however, advised me that both of these species were just beyond our […]
On Sunday 16 July the group visited Elmley NNR reserve. It was a warm, dry if humid day where a hat and sunscreen were the order of the day, together with provisions and drink as it is a mile long walk from the car park to the first of the hides around the scrape. With […]
On a fresh, cloudy day, fourteen of us gathered in the car park at Dagenham Chase, ready to explore this new venue. Having crossed the road, we first looked at the Eastbrook Pond. There were Egyptian geese, mute swans, mallards, common terns and coots with their chicks. Our walk took us between the lakes, where […]
On Tuesday a large group of members and non-members gathered by the visitor centre at Lullingstone Country Park for our latest Tuesday nature “ramble”. It was pleasantly warm but rain was forecast from 1.00pm. One of the first birds that we saw was a yellowhammer (and we heard its song, “a-little-bit-of-bread- and-no-cheese”). It was sitting […]
On Saturday our group visited Minsmere RSPB reserve in Suffolk. A really smooth coach journey and nice sunny weather set us up for a great day. On arrival the group seemed to explode in all directions – some going straight to the Island Mere hide in search of Savi’s warbler, some to the reed bed […]
Set in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Beauty near to Tunbridge Wells, Broadwater Warren was taken over by the RSPB in 2007, when it was a large conifer plantation with just a few remnants of heathland surviving. Much of the restoration work has already taken place, restoring the open landscape of the Weald. The […]