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Our arrival at the attractive church of St Quiricus and St Julietta coincided with a school harvest festival, thechildren’s yellow tabards echoing this year’s ubiquitous Clouded Yellow butterflies. 13 walkers set off up the hill to Cadbury Camp, with views of Kestrel and Buzzard, and a Pied Wagtail on a roof. In the woodland were

We met at Pensford village hall and 15 of us set out under very overcast skies. After leaving the village, the walk is quite arduous with much clambering up and down slopes. The terrain was mostly arable farmland with a woodland which we passed through. Robin song and alarm calls accompanied us everywhere and it

Having woken to a dreary rainy day, by the time 20 of us arrived at the car park, the sun was shining. It was high tide so we took a gentle stroll along the cycle path to the sluice. The high tide resulted in large groups of Herring Gulls (225), Redshanks (200) and Black Headed

To make the most of the early high tide, we opted to do a shorter circuit of RSPB Newport Wetlands. Sixteenmembers (including one Young Person) enjoyed viewing the Usk Estuary from the path towards the Lighthouse. As well as Mallard and Shelduck, the shoreline offered a useful size comparison between Great and Little Egrets standing

On a very wet morning 13 club members met at Bitton Station, having to don their wet weather gear after many months of heat and drought. We followed the footpath beside the heritage railway line for a short distance before turning off past St Anne’s Church and then down a delightful walled lane to a

The pleasant weather brought out 26 walkers including two new members for the first walk of the meteorological autumn. Setting off, we picked a route that would hopefully not disturb the Little Owl we hoped to see in a nearby barn, Swallows flew overhead. A Whitethroat was seen, a family of four Stonechats were spotted

Today’s walk was postponed from yesterday due to the wet weather. Seventeen of us met with cautious optimism of seeing target species of Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, Redstart and Yellow Wagtail, following a number of reported sightings during the week (and earlier in the morning!). As we set off towards the Common, we saw a Sparrowhawk

Even though the Kings Wood car park was packed with dog walkers we still managed to find room here and in various lay-bys for the 14 walkers that turned up for this walk. As we left the car park we went in the glorious summer woodland and first saw Nuthatch and Great Spotted Woodpecker. We

Our group birded from the Lodge to Top End hide and back from late morning to mid-afternoon. The passerines were certainly keeping their heads down, and there were very few birds on the water, although significant numbers of Mallards with some Gadwalls were loafing along the North Shore as they do during their moult. I

Not too hot, no rain, a slight breeze, perfect day for a walk, shame that only five people seemed to think so! It started very well with a Red Kite immediately above and flying so low we could see its perfect markings; a little further on and the cry of a Chaffinch, many Crows, Magpie