Welcome
Welcome to the website of the RSPB Sheffield Local Group. RSPB local groups are a great way to meet friendly, like-minded people in your area while discovering more about birds and wildlife.
We hold our indoor meetings on the first Thursday of most months and run frequent midweek and weekend walks in and around Sheffield as well as coach trips to nature reserves further afield.
A key objective of our group is to raise money to support the RSPB’s work – on a local, national and even global scale.
Our upcoming events
Join us at one of our indoor meetings with their variety of talks or on one of our local walks or coach trips to places further afield. Most of our activities have now finished for the summer but our programme of walks, talks and coach trips will be back from September.
Latest news
Back in the Botanical Gardens
It was great to be back with our May event in Sheffield Botanical Gardens after an absence of two years. This year’s event ran over…
How to use our new website
We are pleased to announce that we have a new RSPB Sheffield website as a home for all our news, information on upcoming events and…
Our coach trips
Our coach trips are great value for money and run most months on a Sunday to nature reserves and other wildlife sites an hour or…
Our local walks
Our local walks are led by members of our group who take us to one of their favourite places. They offer a great way of…
From the blog
Rutland Water – 12 June 2022
As with most of the reserves we’ve visited this year, it was three years since our last trip to Rutland Water to see the ospreys….
Tideswell Dale – 1 June 2022
Fourteen of us, led by Helen Foley, set off in lovely bright sunshine with the birds in full song. The predominant songsters were chaffinch, blackbird,…
Burbage – 18 May 2022
We had perfect weather for our walk across the wild, boulder strewn moorland of the Upper Burbage Valley, dominated by the imposing grandeur of Higger…
Attenborough – 15 May 2022
We arrived at Attenborough just after 9am and the weather gods were again kind to us as the forecast rain failed to materialise. Instead, we…
This month's local wild place
This month’s featured wild place is Lathkill Dale.
It’s a great time to explore this beautiful valley, especially the top half with its amazing limestone grassland flowers including Jacob’s ladder. Birds that you might spot include redstart, wheatear and spotted flycatcher.
