SEPTEMBER 2016 Tuesday 31st: Group Meeting –We welcome John Watkins who Tuesday 25th: Our short Annual General Meeting,followed by ” Tuesday 27th: Our first Group Meeting of the new season, we will give an Audio Visual presentation “What a Wonderful World” Paul Stancliffe from the BTO with “Follow that Cuckoo - satellite welcome back Bruce Bennett, with his talk on ‘Seychelles-The ======tagging of Cuckoos. Please support our Plant Bring ‘n Buy Amazing Wildlife’ – featuring the stunning bird life and scenery - FEBRUARY 2017 tables tonight. not forgetting the giant tortoises ======Saturday 4th: Annual General Knowledge Quiz in the URC ======hall - 7pm for 7.15pm start. Book early, this is always a very MAY 2017 th OCTOBER 2016 popular evening - £72 for a table of 8, supper incl. but bring Saturday 6 Local walk LVRP Fishers Green (Nightingale st Saturday 1 :Local walk Walthamstow , Meet your own drinks! Tickets on sale from October 2016 from walk) LVRP Fishers Green car park, Stubbins Hall Lane, Waltham Walthamstow Reservoirs car park off Ferry Lane, Walthamstow Steve Kiln on 01992 552562, email [email protected] or at Abbey - toilets. Nearest postcode: EN9 2EF: Leader Stan (A503) - toilets. Postcode: N17 9NH.Leader Mike Oakland (T) group meetings. Kitchiner

th th Sunday 16 October for 2 or 3 nights Our annual Group Holiday Sunday 12th Local walk HMWT , Welwyn G Saturday 20 : Coach trip to RSPB Pulborough Brooks, Sussex to the coast. Staying at the Le Strange Hotel, Old C.On road parking in Lemsford Village near reserve entrance. for resident birds and spring migrants, Visitor centre and shop. Hunstanton. Cost £122 (if sharing) Single £182. Booking details Nearest postcode: AL8 7TN Leader Steve Kiln Coach departs Ware 07.30, Broxbourne 07.45. : from Phil Blatcher - 01992 441024 Leader Barrie Stockwell th rd Sunday 19 ; Car Trip to RSPB Ouse Washes for wild swans and Sunday 23 :Car trip to RSPB Rainham Marshes for wildfowl, other wildfowl, waders and raptors. Meet at 09.30am at the Visitor Tuesday 30th: Group Meeting – Regular speakers Ann and Phil waders and raptors, Visitor centre and shop. Meet at 10am in the Centre, Welches Dam (TL471860). Leader Ruth Shinebaum. Farrer return to give us an insight into “Birding in Ethiopia” reserve car park. Leader TBA (T) ======Sunday 26th: The Annual Beached Bird Survey, monitoring a JUNE 2017 Tuesday 25th: Group Meeting –The Lodge, Past and Future, stretch of the in , at Tollesbury. More th Peter Bradley RSPB, Senior Site Manager The Lodge and details from organiser Ted Bell on 01920 467809 (T) Sunday 4 Local walk. . Meet at car park off Fowlmere Beaumont Park Drive, Roydon. Postcode: CM19 5HB. Leader Tuesday 28th: Group Meeting – Tom Lancaster from the RSPB Ted Bell ======will update us on “Farming, Birds and the Countryside” NOVEMBER 2016 Sunday 18thh: Car trip to RSPB Fen Drayton. No facilities at this th Sunday 6 Local walk RSPB & Stanstead Innings ======reserve. Meet at the carpark 09.30am : Leader Barrie Stockwell Meet at: RSPB Rye Meads, Hoddesdon - toilets. Postcode: SG12 MARCH 2017 8JS: Leader: Vicky Buckel Saturday 4th Local walk HMWT Amwell , Ware Tuesday 27th: At our final Group Meeting of the season we welcome for the first time Tom Way who will remind us of “Wildlife th Amwell Lane, near War Memorial, Great Amwell Nearest Saturday 19 : Coach trip to Rutland Water for winter birds and postcode: SG12 9SS Ruth Shinebaum on our doorstep” wildfowl. Entrance fee £4. Visitor centre and shop. Coach departs Broxbourne 07.30, Ware 07.45 Leader Mike Oakland (T) Saturday 18th: Coach trip to NWT Cley for a range of late winter Friday 30th Local walk Little Hadham Parish. Meet at Tesco’s Car Park, Note at 7.00pm, Bishops Park Centre, Bishops th and early spring birds on the Norfolk coast, Visitor Centre and Tuesday 29 : Group Meeting –We welcome back Andy Sands shop. Coach departs Broxbourne 07.30, Ware 07.45. Leader Stortford CM23 4DD, Jonathan Forgham (support leader TBA) with his intriguing title “While the Dormouse Sleeps” Steve Kiln (T) ======2017-2018 Programme ======Tuesday 28th: Group Meeting – We welcome Bill Coster who will DECEMBER 2016 SEPTEMBER 2017 rd explore the “Birds of Gambia and the spectacular animals and th Saturday 3 : Local walk LVRP Fishers Green Full day walk, landscapes of Namibia” Tuesday 26 : Our first Group Meeting of the new season, Chris Meet at LVRP Fishers Green car park, Stubbins Hall Lane, Ward, wildlife photographer returns to explore “Migration Waltham Abbey - toilets. Nearest postcode: EN9 2EF: Leader ======Mysteries”, Chris Ward Mike Oakland (T) APRIL 2017 Sunday 9th Local walk HMWT Panshanger Park, Hertford PLEASE NOTE: Tuesday 20th: Christmas Group Meeting with ‘bring ‘n share’ Thieves Lane car park, Hertford, off A414/Hertingfordbury Road supper plus Ted Bell’s talk on ‘South Georgia’. We will also Roundabout. Nearest postcode: SG14 2WN : Leader Barrie (T) in the text, indicates that toilets are on site or nearby have the Grand Christmas draw, our 6 monthly 100 Club Stockwell Local Walks start at 9-30 am unless otherwise stated draw, raffle and a fun quiz. Always a very popular festive evening. Sunday 23rd: Car Outing to EWT Fingeringhoe and Cudmore ======Grove CP on Mersea for Nightingales and other spring migrants. A local walk may be cancelled at the discretion of the walk JANUARY 2017 Visitor centre and shop. Meet at Fingringhoe at 10am. Leader leader if the weather is very bad, please take this into Saturday 7th: Annual visit to Abberton (T) then on to TBA consideration before joining any walk Tollesbury (T) with festive lunch at the point. Meet by 9.30am on the Layer Breton causeway, Abberton, off B1026 - (OS168 Mon 17th - 24th April 2017 Holiday on Skokholm, Cost about See over for further important information on membership, TL950165) Leader: Stan Kitchener £330 including accommodation, boat & food. Details from Phil meetings, trips and walks etc meetings, trips and walks etc Blatcher - 01992 441024