Clive Lovatt Memorial Lecture

15.10.2025

***Please note change of venue!*** Tim Rich will speak on the topic ‘Alpine Woundwort in England and Wales – native or introduced?’. Alpine Woundwort Stachys…

Urban Botany – Castle Park to Redcliffe

19.10.2025

City botany is always tombola of curios and around Bristol’s historic centre there can be rich pickings late into the autumn and early winter. With…

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…

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…

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…

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