Chew Valley Lake

08.11.2025

Meet for a 10 a.m. start at Bristol Water’s Woodford Lodge (Grid Ref: ST565607, ///subjects.selling.deeds) which is located off the B3114 road between Chew Stoke…

Trekking and Birding in the Everest Region

12.11.2025

A Zoom Talk. In 2017, Sara spent 3 weeks trekking to Everest Base Camp and around the Gokyo Lakes – an adventure she still remembers…

Restoring an Urban Stream. The River Trym, Bristol

19.11.2025

Venue: Create Centre. Peter Coleman-Smith is an active environmentalist with a passion for water and its wildlife who writes: I’ve felt closely connected to nature,…

Bryophytes of Trooper’s Hill

23.11.2025

This site is a fine example of acid heath and grassland, with areas of bare ground, all of which are rare habitats in our region.

RSPB NEWPORT WETLANDS

06.12.2025

Meet at the RSPB car park Postcode NP18 2BZ at 10am. We will be looking for winter thrushes, migrant raptors and passerines; Cetti’s Warbler, Marsh…

The BTO/JNCC/RSPB Breeding Bird Survey in Avon and beyond

10.12.2025

Speaker: David White, BTO David has worked for the BTO for much of the last six years. His current role involves trying to encourage more…

The ecology of electricity: pollination, parasitism, and predator-prey interactions

17.12.2025

In this talk, Sam England will take us on a journey through the often unnoticed ecological role of electrostatics in nature. He will discuss recent…

STONE CURLEWS

14.01.2026

A Zoom talk. Speaker: Keith Betton Details to come…

RSPB Greylake

17.01.2026

Located in the heart of the Somerset Levels and Moors, Greylake shows what the Levels must have been like before extensive agricultural drainage. Thanks to…

The State of Nature in the West of England

21.01.2026

All you ever wanted to know about biological recording but were afraid to ask! Details to come Speaker: Ray Barnett Venue: The Create Centre…

BROWNSEA ISLAND – A YEAR IN THE LIFE

11.03.2026

An illustrated talk meeting some of the island’s feathered, furry and fork-wielding inhabitants with Jonny Owen, former Brownsea resident conservationist. Brownsea is nationally important for…

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