Field Trips depart from the bus bay beside the Copthorne Hotel, Paradise Circus, Birmingham (maps here 
) prompt at the times stated.
Food and drink should be brought and waterproofs. Appropriate clothing and footwear, to guard against the elements, is recommended.
Please note that the 48-seat coach can become fully booked, so non-arrivals on the day can deny those on the waiting list the chance to enjoy the trip. Please contact us — however late — if you cannot honour a booking. On Sunday morning call Ray Davis' mobile: 07762 061603 with any late cancellations. Thank you.
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| Day, Date & Time | Venue (Grid ref. & map link) |
Details |
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| Sunday 8 January 2012 7:00am– 6:30pm (approx.) |
Rutland Water , Rutland (SK879071 ) |
Prime inland reservoir with lagoons, marshy margins, fields and woodland to provide a wide range of species to start the year. Cost £16.00 which includes reserve entrance fee. |
| Sunday 12 February 2012 7:00am– 7:00pm (approx.) |
RSPB Newport Wetlands , South Wales (ST334834 ) |
A further visit to this developing wetland reserve. Start with a look over seashore and pools at Goldcliff Pools before moving on to the RSPB reserve. View waders on seashore, estuary and pools, seek Cetti's Warblers and Bearded Tits in reedbeds, passerines around scrub, fields and woodland and maybe find Little Owl. Cost £13.00 plus entrance fee for RSPB non-members — so bring your RSPB membership card! |
| Sunday 4 March 2012 8:00am– 7:00pm (approx.) |
Forest of Dean , Gloucestershire (SO620120 ) |
Our regular visit, at a time of peak activity offering prospect of displaying Goshawk, finding Hawfinch and Crossbill, admiring spectacular Mandarin and good views of Peregrine and other woodland species. Cost £12.00. |
| Friday 30 March to Sunday 1 April 2012 7:00pm– 6:00pm (approx.) |
Devon Weekend | Langstone Cliff Hotel , Dawlish Warren (SX975783 ) Travel by own transport. We will search for local specialities and lingering wintering species, as well as the first summer migrants and rarities that may be present. Book early for this popular weekend meeting. Cost £66 is per person per night for half board (no deposit); single supplement of £11.00 per person per night . |
| Sunday 22 April 2012 8:00– 7:00pm (approx.) |
Paxton Pits , Cambridgeshire (TL196629 ) |
Another visit to Paxton at a peak time for Nightingale activity, the arrival of summer migrant warblers, and real potential for Turtle Dove in an area offering scrub, woodland, pools and marsh habitats. Finish the day with a well-earned cuppa and a biscuit! Cost £15.00 |
| Sunday 13 May 2012 7:00am– 7:00pm (approx.) |
RSPB Ynys Hir (SN682961 ), mid-Wales. |
This prime attractive reserve in mid-Wales should yield Wood Warbler, Pied Flycatcher, Redstart and possibly Tree Pipit and Red Kite as well as other summer migrant warblers. Coastal birds add to the interest. Cost £14.00 |
| Sunday 10 June 2012 7:00am– 7:00pm (approx.) |
RSPB Bempton Cliffs , East Yorkshire (TA197738 )andRSPB Blacktoft Sands , East Yorkshire (SE843232 ) |
The spectacular cliffs at Bempton offer close views of nesting seabirds — Gannet, Guillemot, Puffin and Razorbill. Blacktoft offers estuary reserve good for waders, rarities, raptors, Bearded Tit and maybe Grasshopper Warbler. Cost £16.00 |
| Sunday 1 July 2012 7:00am– 7:00pm (approx.) |
Weeting Heath , Norfolk (TL756881 )and RSPB Lakenheath Fen , Suffolk(TL724866 ) |
In search of rare British breeding birds we start at Weeting Heath hoping for Stone Curlew and possibly Woodlark. In the afternoon we search Lakenheath RSPB for Golden Oriole in the poplar plantations and Common Crane and Bittern in the extended reedbeds. Cost £19.00 which includes reserve entrance fee. |
| Sunday 9 September 2012 7:00– 7:30pm (approx.) |
RSPB Titchwell Marsh , Norfolk (TF750438 ) |
Seek seabirds, waders, wildfowl and migrants at a peak migration time at a prime RSPB reserve. Our first visit since the major changes and improvements that have been made to combat effects of predicted higher sea levels and upgrade viewing facilities. Cost £16.00 |
| Sunday 7 October 2012 7:00– 7:00pm (approx.) |
Spurn Head (East Yorkshire, TA397109 )
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Jutting out into the North Sea, a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust-owned peninsula that attracts passage migrants and vagrants — expect anything! Cost £17.00 |
| Friday 9 to Sunday 11 November 2012 6:30pm– 6:00pm (approx.) |
Norfolk Weekend | The Cliftonville Hotel , 29 Runton Road, Cromer, Norfolk NR27 9AS (TG213423 )
Travel by own transport (car sharing on Saturday may be more practical to minimise convoy size). We will travel to visit Hickling Broad and Stubb Mill; Salthouse (Cley), Holkham and Titchwell — weather, tides and birds (of course) may decide detail. Waders, wildfowl and sea birds are certain, winter migrants — Snow Bunting, Shore Lark etc. perhaps… cranes, harriers, owls, who knows — tremendous potential. Cost: £65.00 per person per night. A deposit of £30 per person required with cheques made payable to The Cliftonville Hotel. |
| Sunday 9 December 2012 8:00– 7:30pm (approx.) |
RSPB Rainham Marshes , Essex TQ552792 ) |
Marshland habitat with reedbeds, pools, shallow scrapes, some woodland and grazed meadows by the Thames estuary offers wildfowl, waders, reedbed specialities and rare gulls. Cost £15.00. |
Ornithology in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire & the West Midlands county, since 1929.
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