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Before leaving the car park on a blustery October morning, Georgia Gmytrasiewicz, our student friend from Illinois who is a ringer in USA, was presented with a BOC club beanie as a ‘thank you’ for joining us and sharing her birding experiences with us over the past three months. Georgia, you will be missed. 27

Nineteen members braved the rain for the walk at Leap Valley and over to Moorend – they must have heard it was Graham’s 100th consecutive Tuesday walk. Despite the drizzle the walk started well with a noisy Great Spotted Woodpecker (two in total for the day), 31 Long-tailed Tits (in total), a Chiffchaff, three Goldcrests

Andy, who had not seen my texts of doom, was the only person to join Anne and me at Herriott’s. To keep our optics dry in the rain, one person held a large umbrella over the scopes while the other searched. We noted three Shelducks, nine Black-tailed Godwits, two Snipe and some Common Gulls. There

Thirty of us started the walk in dampish and dull weather which brightened as the walk progressed. Near the start we began to see birds which included some House Sparrows chattering in a hedge. As we walked across fields several Wood Pigeons, a Magpie and a Robin made themselves known. Walking along a hedge lined

Around 17 members met in the Natural England car park in Steart village on a beautiful autumn morning, a light breeze, no rain and a high spring tide. The walk along the King Charles lll coastal path was uneventful, just a few pairs of Stonechats, an odd Chiffchaff and later a singing Cetti’s Warbler. The

Nineteen of us met on a cool and cloudy morning and headed north. The first excitement was two Roe Deer running across our field to the sounds of Jackdaw, Robin, Long-tailed Tit, and Wrens. A sole Moorhen was heard from the hidden pool. Next, with some tits, were two Nuthatches, a Dunnock and 30 Mallards

Six intrepid members met in the car park in the midst of Storm ‘Amy’. We waited until a short sharp hail shower passed over to walk onto the reservoir banks. The wind was so strong we could only identify the closest birds, which were flocks of Mallard and Coot and a few Pied Wagtails. Cheddar

Eighteen members including seven new ones, turned up for a chilly walk at New Passage and along the Wetlands. With quite a few binoculars we soon spotted 200 Dunlin, 100 Oystercatchers, Canada Geese, and 40 Redshanks, and a flock of 60 Lapwing. With the scopes two Peregrines were spotted on the ground, along with a

Sixteen of us met at the church in Tickenham and we couldn’t have wished for a better day for autumn birdwatching. Crisp and cool with a beautiful blue sky. Even waiting by the cars we got off to a good start with a Buzzard, a Grey Heron and a Song Thrush. We set off on