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| Day, Date & Time | Event | Venue (Grid ref. & map link) |
Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday 2 October 2009 7:30–9:30pm |
WMBC Solihull Branch indoor meeting | Guild House, 1715, High Street, Knowle, Solihull B93 0LN (SP183768 ) |
Brian Draper: The River Avon Another in Brian's enjoyable series of river journeys. |
| Sunday 4 October 2009 10:00am–1pm | WMBC Solihull Branch field trip | Brandon Marsh . (SP386758 ) |
There is always a good variety of birds at Warwickshire Wildlife Trust's flagship reserve. (Approximate driving time from Solihull 25 minutes) |
| Sunday 4 October 2009 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. |
| Tuesday 6 October 2009 7:30–9:30pm |
WMBC Stafford Branch indoor meeting | Perkins Sports and Social Club , Tixall Road, Stafford ST16 3UB (grid reference: SJ937231 ) |
Photography Open Evening Members, and non-Members, are cordially invited to bring along their photographs which will be shown during the evening, along with a couple of reports of projects and other items of Staffordshire interest. We expect to have a digital projector and laptop available for this meeting which will allow photographers to show their better shots. Please have your photos available on a memory stick, and ideally contact the chairman so that a running order can be arranged. |
| Sunday 11 October 2009 7am–8:00pm (approx.) Postponed until 1 November! |
WMBC Birmingham Branch field trip | Gibraltar Point NNR , Lincolnshire (TF556581 )
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Mix of fresh and saltwater marshes, sand dunes and shore on the edge of the Wash and North Sea attracts waders, wildfowl, seabirds as well as passage migrants and vagrants! Cost £18.00 |
| Friday 16 October 2009 7:30–9:30pm |
WMBC Tamworth Branch indoor meeting | Philip Dix Centre , Corporation Street, Tamworth B79 7DN (SK206041 ) |
Mike Leach: The Complete Owl. |
| Sunday 25 1am GMT |
End of British Summer Time. | clocks go back one hour. | |
| Tuesday 27 October 2009 7:30–9:30pm |
WMBC Birmingham Branch indoor meeting | Unitarian New Meeting , 31 Ryland Street, Ladywood, Birmingham B16 8BL (SP056863 ) |
Graham Bell: Bird Nesting Habitats Past, Present and Future |
| Wednesday 28 October 2009 7:30–9:30pm |
WMBC Kidderminster Branch indoor meeting | St. Oswald's Church Centre, Broadwaters Drive, Kidderminster DY10 2RY (SO841779 ) |
Tim Appleton: Greenfields to Ramsar: The story of Rutland Water. |
Ornithology in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire & the West Midlands county, since 1929.
Fetched from http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/2009/10 on Wednesday 17 March 2010 19:49:30
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