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| Day, Date & Time | Event | Venue (Grid ref. & map link) |
Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 03 October 2008 7:30–9:30pm |
WMBC Solihull Branch indoor meeting | Guild House, 1715, High Street, Knowle, Solihull B93 0LN (SP183768 ) |
Tony Wharton: Faces of Nature Tony's first visit to Solihull promises a wide range of wildlife photography subjects and techniques, covering many parts of the world. |
| Sunday 5 October 2008 7am–8:30pm (approx.) |
WMBC Birmingham Branch field trip | 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 £15.00 |
| Tuesday 7 October 2008 (note revised date) 7:30–9:30pm |
WMBC Stafford Branch indoor meeting | Perkins Sports and Social Club, Tixall Road, Stafford ST16 3UB (SJ937231 ) |
John and Tracy Langley: How do they do that? (bird & wildlife photography). |
| Sunday 12 October 2008 10:00am–1pm | WMBC Solihull Branch field trip | Shustoke Reservoir . (SP225910 ) |
An easy circuit of two small reservoirs. Interesting migrants such as gulls and waterfowl can occur. Resident species include Tree Sparrow. (Approximate driving time from Solihull 25 minutes) |
| Sunday 12 October 2008 9:30am |
WMBC Stafford Branch field trip | Berryhill, Stoke-on-Trent (SJ904464 ) |
Meet at the end of Arbourfield Drive. Easy walking. This return visit to the site should see a few late summer migrants still around and some of the winter migrants just arriving. Although a city site, its wide open spaces, and small stands of bushes attact a good variety of the more unusual birds, with recent visitors including Wryneck and Black Redstart and Red-backed Shrike. Leader: Nick Pomiankowski, Staffordshire County Recorder. |
| Friday 17 October 2008 7:30–9:30pm |
WMBC Tamworth Branch indoor meeting | Philip Dix Centre , Corporation Street, Tamworth B79 7DN (SK206041 ) |
Rob Fuller of the BTO: Changing Times for Woodland Birds. |
| Wednesday 22 October 2008 7:30–9:30pm |
WMBC Kidderminster Branch indoor meeting | St. Oswald's Church Centre, Broadwaters Drive, Kidderminster DY10 2RY (SO841779 ). |
Dr. Al: Birding The Great Silk Route We hope all of our local members will join us for this evening, which promises to give us an insight into birding in part of the world which few of us will have had the privilege to visit. |
| Sunday 26 October 2008 1am GMT |
End of British Summer Time. | clocks go back one hour. | |
| Tuesday 28 October 2008 7:30–9:30pm |
WMBC Birmingham Branch indoor meeting | Birmingham Medical Institute, 36 Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3AF (SP052858 ) |
John Wyatt: Pharaohs & Pratincoles |
Ornithology in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire & the West Midlands county, since 1929.
Fetched from http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/2008/10 on Thursday 09 February 2012 12:23:42
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