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‘The Somerset Levels and Moors’, a talk by Simon Stennett
Simon is the RSPB Area Manager West Country. His job involves overseeing work, mostly on the Somerset Levels. Although this…
A morning walk from Shipley Bridge to Avon Dam
The group met at Shipley Bridge to beautiful blue skies and to the sound of the raging river Avon. Our…
‘Monitoring rare breeding birds in the UK: the work of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel’, a talk by Dr Mark Eaton
Mark is Secretary of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP). He began his talk by posing the question, why should…
A gentle morning walk to Bowling Green Marsh
Six of us met at the Holman Way Car Park in Topsham for our first ‘Gentle Walk’ with Helen as…
‘The secret lives of butterflies’, a talk by Dr Richard Fox
Richard began his talk by saying that a more appropriate title might be “Sex and Violence in the Garden”. Much…
A full day visit to Soar and South Huish Marsh
Ten of us met at East Soar carpark to start the morning walk. Having left Exeter in bright sunshine and…
A morning visit to Seaton Wetlands
Really this British weather is impossible. I had with me, in the car, a sun hat, a woolly hat, a…
A morning visit to Aylesbeare Common
The forecast a week before sounded promising: dry, sunny and a light wind. It sounded perfect for observing butterflies, dragonflies…
An evening walk to Mutter’s Moor, to see nightjars
It was a lovely dry evening with a clear moon. Once everyone had arrived, we set off across the moor’s…
A full-day visit to Challacombe Farm
The weather was cloudy with a cool breeze when 19 of us met in the car park. A redstart was…
A morning walk at Steps Bridge and Dunsford Woods
It was a rainy morning, and only three of us met in the Steps Bridge car park (Richard Farr, Yvonne…
‘Geology and wildlife of Namibia’, a talk by John Medlock
John started by introducing Namibia, predominantly a vast dry central plateau lying between the Kalahari and Namib Deserts. To the…
