This month's club meeting is a bumper two-part matinee session exploring the musical world of bird sounds and is based in and around Leighton Moss. Join us for a relaxing yet sonically-stimulating afternoon. Meet LDBWS guides at 2PM for listening sessions around the reserve. We'll tell you exactly what you're hearing as we quietly walk
Pic by Craig Bell Our president John Wilson and his son Jonty will help you get the most out of this beautiful spot in the north of our recording area. We hope to find a host of woodland, upland and riverine species including Redstart, Pied Flycatcher, Wheatear, Ring Ouzel and Dipper. For more
Join Alasdair and Andrew for a walk round Foulshaw Moss, one of the largest peat bog restoration projects in Britain and home to a wealth of wildlife. As well as the famous Foulshaw Ospreys, we have a good chance of seeing and hearing warblers, Tree Pipit, Tree Sparrow, Lesser Redpoll, Stonechat and a fair chance
Meet Luke Hawkins for an informal yet informative walk in which we hope to see and hear lots of great wetland and farmland songbirds including Reed, Sedge, Grasshopper and Cetti's Warbler, both Whitethroats, Tree Sparrows and Reed Buntings. Watch Common Terns and Avocets at close quarters with other target waders including Bar-tailed Godwit and Little
Join National Trust Ranger Rob for a walk down to the wetland that was created in 2014. Recent highlights include marsh harrier, great white egret and booming bittern. This the fourth time bittern has been recorded there and the first that is properly booming! We will discuss how the site was made, its birdlife, the
LDBWS Summer Bird Quiz Online July 25th 7:30 - 8:30PM Join quizmaster Dan Haywood for an educational yet humorous quiz on summer birds. This will be a multiple choice quiz with questions for all including a few to test even the most knowledgeable birders. Spot prizes will be handed out as well as special prizes for
LDBWS Summer Social on Friday August 12th. It will be held in a beautiful wildlife-friendly garden literally overlooking the Lune estuary. Summery food and drink will be provided gratis. The site is a real hidden gem and will be our midday base for walks around a nearby private land with kingfishers and an egret colony and for passage wader and warbler-watching
The next meeting at Hornby - starting at 7:30 - features an illustrated talk from our Secretary all about how he has made a (modest) living as a bird surveyor for the past 20 years. The speaker will lift the lid on the agonies, ecstasies, tips and traps of this shadowy world-- the rarities found,
Although best known for its Ospreys, Foulshaw Moss is home to a wealth of other wildlife. The ever eloquent and effortlessly effervescent Alasdair McKee (Cumbria Wildlife Trust Volunteer Warden and friend to LDBWS) will introduce us to some of the reserve's special residents in an entertaining illustrated talk.
Our November meeting will feature a talk from Kevin Briggs entitled 'A Walk in the Woods'. Kevin's presentation will focus on the nesting behaviour of four species; pied flycatcher, nuthatch, blue tit and great tit. Based on many seasons of his in-the-field monitoring and shot through with over fifty years of the speaker's ornithological nous,