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Bittern, Ian Barthorpe

RSPB Minsmere, a home for nature – A Zoom talk by Ian Barthorpe

Ian is the Visitor Experience Officer at Minsmere. Before taking us on a whistle-stop tour of the Reserve he gave…

Grey Seal on a pontoon

Exe Estuary boat trip

Twenty-one of us joined the Stuart Line Birdwatching cruise from Exmouth. Unfortunately, several people had had to drop out due…

View of Otter Estuary

The Lower Otter Restoration Project – a talk by Dr Sam Bridgewater

Sam Bridgewater is Head of Wildlife and Conservation at the Clinton Devon Estates and he is responsible for overseeing The…

Great Northern Diver eating a fish

Full Day Visit to Broadsands

After successfully navigating through the Brixham Road roadworks & diversion the group assembled at the Broadsands car park. Whilst there…

Turnstone

Gentle morning walk to Bowling Green Marsh

Eleven of us set off from the car park in freezing temperatures (well it was literally 0 degrees) to walk…

Avocet at Brownsea

Members’ Evening

Four members volunteered to give short presentations and Richard Swinbank also produced a quiz, Birds from Words. Cilla Ingram produced…

Little Grebes, Paul Bray

Visit to the Lower Otter Restoration Project

There was a good gathering of us risking the wind and the rain, to learn about this development at Budleigh…

Humpback Whale gulp

‘Up the creek and beyond’ – a talk by Rupert Kirkwood, alias The Lone Kayaker

If you didn’t get to this evening talk, then you missed something special. Rupert treated us to an amazing evening…

Rook

Morning walk from Powderham to Turf Lock

Nine hardy souls set out, some with umbrellas expecting some pretty foul weather. In the event it was not too…

Wigeon swimming

Open Morning at Bowling Green Marsh

On Sunday 30th October we held our Open Morning at The Lookout, Bowling Green Marsh. It was well attended and…

Blonde Hedgehog

‘Hedgehogs’ – a talk by Pat Morris

Pat has studied hedgehogs for some 60 years and his students at Royal Holloway College, London, undertook investigations to help…

Kingfisher amongst reeds

Gentle morning walk from Passage House Inn to Hackney Marshes

The weather was rather overcast when the group assembled at the Passage House Inn in Kingsteignton. Richard gave an update…