Friday, 2 April 2021

March Zoom Meeting Review - Des Sussex - The Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area

Heading south-west from London on the M3, through a region subject to huge developmental pressures, one also passes between some rich wildlife habitats subject to the highest levels of environmental protection. This informative, well-illustrated talk gave us a very fine summary. More...

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Have you voted yet?

Choose which statue you think should honour the RSPB's founder - Emily Williamson of Didsbury. The winning statue will stand in Fletcher Moss Park, Didsbury, Emily's former home, and site of that first Society for the Protection of Birds meeting in 1889. To vote, visit the website below and click on the live poll button More...

Wednesday, 24 February 2021

Review February Zoom Meeting - Simon Gillings - Nocturnal Migration

In marked contrast to the trip to New Zealand that featured in last month's talk, this month's excellent presentation was centred on data collected from a garden shed in north-east Cambridge; this opened up a fascinating topic, the scale of which few of us probably realised. More...