Llanrhidian Roost Watch
Llanrhidian Swansea, Swansea, United KingdomEd Hunter will lead the first field trip of the New Year to Llanrhidian. This will be afternoon watch to look for harriers (hen, marsh and potentially pallid), egrets and falcons and what else comes into view (short-eared owl and … Read More
GOS Annual Quiz
St Paul’s Parish Hall De la Beche Road, Swansea, United KingdomOur own version of Anne Robinson (in the form of Heather Coates) will be the host for the annual Margaret Price Memorial Quiz. Expect wit, repartee, the odd scolding, and a mixture of easy, difficult and obscure questions. It is … Read More
Cilsan and Dryslwyn Field Trip
Dryslwyn Picnic Site Dryslwyn Picnic Site, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, United KingdomA venture over the border into Carmarthenshire with our leader Ed Hunter. The aim will be to search the area around the River Tywi for flocks of mute and whooper swans and geese (greylag, white-fronted and bean geese have all … Read More
Crofty Field Trip
Crofty Industrial Estate Crofty Industrial Estate, Crofty, United KingdomLeader Barry Stewart: 07730 502738 High tide watch to see waterfowl (egrets, brent geese, pintail, shoveler, etc.) and waders (oystercatchers, knot, dunlin etc.) at Salthouse Point together with waterbirds that may have drifted up on the high tide (such as … Read More
The Hen Harrier in Wales
Keith Offord, a raptor specialist who has spent decades monitoring the fortunes of the hen harrier in upland Wales will talk to us about one of our rarest raptors and most enigmatic breeding species. Keith’s experience includes systematically surveying large … Read More
Penllergaer Woods Field Trip
Penllergare Valley Woods Visitor Centre Penllergare Valley Woods Visitor Centre, Swansea, United KingdomA trip around Penllergaer Valley Woods with your leader for the morning, Rob Taylor. We hope to catch up with a range of woodland species, including goshawk, sparrowhawk, jay, siskin, marsh tit, woodpeckers, nuthatch and a variety of other species. … Read More
Reintroduction of the white-tailed eagle to Wales
St Paul’s Parish Hall De la Beche Road, Swansea, United KingdomSophie Lee-Williams, white-tailed eagle project officer for the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust will talk to us about all aspects of the proposed reintroduction of the species to Wales. Sophie has addressed us before and is an excellent and engaging speaker.
Field Trip to Ham Wall
RSPB Ham Wall Meare, Ashcott, Glastonbury, United KingdomA trip to Ham Wall to look for bittern, glossy ibis, egrets of three varieties, marsh harrier, bearded tit, plenty of wildfowl and some reed bed warblers. Contact Jeremy Jeremy@douglas-jones.biz if you are interested in coming along and would like … Read More