Gt Spotted Woodpecker Photo: Wildlifer84 Matt Newman Nov 2010

The Amersham Birdwatching Club

Our aim is to share and foster an interest in and enjoyment of birds and their environment.

We will be glad to see you at any of our monthly meetings when we resume

Our meetings which start at 7:45pm are usually on the third Friday of the month and take place in the Barn Hall, Chiltern Avenue, Amersham, HP6 5AH

Enquiries: Text 07958 792 488

NEXT Indoor MEETING:

All indoor meetings cancelled for the forseeable future

A Zoom Meeting ( probably about 1h long) is to take place instead of the normal February 2021 meeting on the 19th at 19:30.

This will be a talk by Annette Fayet on " Why are seabird numbers declining"

Annette , who is a Junior Research Fellow at Queens College ,Oxford spoke to us a year or so back and will update us on the work she is doing on her investigations into Puffins and Tropic birds. She recently was on BBC talking of her work with Puffins at Skomer and the role of miniature tracking devices now being employed in the study of the Atlantic Puffins breeding there.

Please let the secretary know if you want to take part.

email secretary@amershambirdwatchingclub.co.uk

Outdoor meetings

These are a gentle stroll with plenty time to stop and take in the scenery and wildlife.

We are continuing to have outdoor meetings whenever the regulations allow.

If you want to take part in any outing send an email in the first instance to the secretary for further details.

The proposed dates for the outings are:-

December: Date to be decided because of Covid Restrictions Venue Stockers Lake

January: 4th Monday am Venue Chess Valley

23rd Saturday am Lemsford Springs, Herts

February: 17th Wednesday all day London Wetland Centre This is a Wednesday meeting to avoid weekend crowds

March: 24th Wednesday am Jubilee River, Bucks

April 17th Saturday all day Paxton Pits, Beds

May: 26th Wednesday am/day Otmoor, Oxfordshire

June: 20th Sunday am / day Panshanger, Herts

July :17th Saturday Totternhoe Knolls SSSI, Beds

Some birds seen locally in the Witton's garden Little Chalfont

seen locally.....Photos by Linda

Crossbill caught in netting in David and Linda's garden Little Chalfont

Dunnock in Linda's garden

From Linda's garden

Snettisham birds just to get away from it all

Edward Mayer who was due to give a talk to us on Swift Conservation has a very interesting 1h20m programme on youTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUlz-U_gX20

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LOCAL SIGHTINGS gathered from Twitter, Goingbirding etc

12/2 10 Common Crossbill, Penn Wood

10/2 Goosander Marsworth Reservoir

8/2 Grey Wagtail Hughenden Church

7/2 Flock of Linnets Featherbed Lane Holmer Green

Photo by Linda Witton

We look forward to welcoming you to any of our meetings. We will continue to do our best to keep you updated on our programme & activities together with any updates to our web site

Feeding Kestrel

This photo of a feeding Kestrel was taken by Linda Witton while we were at Farlington Marshes, Portsmouth on a 3 day trip to the South Coast.

A few of our members like taking photos. If you find this of interest please contact us for further details or just to chat.

Field Trips

Field Trips are a regular feature of our activities many being local but a couple of times a year we go further afield for a few days residential to places such as Titchwell in North Norfolk, Minsmere in Suffolk, Portland Bill or North Kent Marshes. We had hoped to go to Exmouth this year 2020 but Covid intervened

This site was last updated on 14th Feb 2021