Sunday 10 May Come and meet friendly, like-minded Local Walk: Dawn Chorus. Broxbourne Woods people in the S.E. Herts RSPB Local Meet at 5.00am in the Hoddesdon Civic Hall car park. Postcode: EN11 8BE. Group, while learning more about Thursday 14 May birds and wildlife. Car Outing: College Lakes and Reservoirs. A full day’s walk around these two wetland sites. Indoor Meetings are held at The United Meet at College Lakes Visitor Centre. Postcode Reformed Church Hall, Mill Lane, Broxbourne, HP23 5QG (T) Car park charge applies. EN10 7BG on the last Tuesday of the month. Tuesday 26 May (Wheelchair accessible) Doors open Indoor Meeting: Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust’s Sarah Perry presents...Living Rivers of 19.30 for a 20.00 start. Admission charge £3.00 . Plus bring and buy plant sale. RSPB members, £3.50 non-members. Refreshments are available. Parking in the car June park at rear of hall and in Mill Lane. Monday 8 June Local Walk: Discover the delightful countryside Group Leader is Stan Kitchiner. Email around Wheathampstead. Meet in the East Lane [email protected] car park. Nearest Postcode: AL4 8BS (T). Sunday 13 or 14 June Group Secretary is Dorothy Blatcher. Email Coach outing: Minsmere. The RSPB's flagship [email protected] reserve located on the Suffolk coast. Coach departs Broxbourne 7.30, Ware 7.45 (T). 100 Club Organiser is Lyn Horsley. Email Tuesday 30 June [email protected] Indoor Meeting: Wildlife Photographer Tom Way presents...’My Love of Africa. From the Bwindi Coach Outings organiser is Steve Kiln. Email Mountains in search of gorillas to meerkats in the [email protected] or book at group Kalahari’. meetings. We split into groups, each with a July leader. Price £22, under 18’s £12. Friday 3 July Local Walk: Connaught Water, Chingford Plain Local Walks organiser is Mike Oakland. Email and Epping Forest. Meet in the Rangers Road car [email protected] park at 7pm. Postcode: E4 7QH. Car Outings organiser is Stan Kitchiner. Email (T) = toilets available on or near site [email protected].

For more information, please visit: NOTE: that local walks, coach or car outings may South East Herts be cancelled in very bad weather conditions. rspb.org.uk/groups/ Please bring food, drink, waterproofs and suitable SouthEastHertfordshire footwear. Meet at 9.30. unless otherwise stated. Local Group Wednesday Walks. Leader is Geoff Brown. facebook.com/SEHertsRSPB Walks in and around the Lea Valley area. Meet at 9.45am for a leisurely 3 hours. For more Programme of events Twitter:South @sehertsrspb East Herts information, email [email protected] ‘Wednesday Walks’ in the subject line. and speakers 2019-20 Cover image: Red Kite courtesy of Andy Johnson

September 2019 Tuesday 26 November Sunday 23 February Sunday 1 September Indoor Meeting: Writer Derek Niemann presents... Car Outing: Beached Bird Survey at Tollesbury. Local Walk: Hatfield Forest/Stansted Airport ‘Birds in a Cage’. The true story of four young Essex. The group has been carrying out these Lagoons. Meet in the Green Man pub car park, men held as POWs in Nazi Germany, who kept surveys since the 1970’s. Come along and see Takeley.Nearest Postcode CM22 6QU. their sanity by watching birds. what we do. Meet in the car park at 11.00. Tuesday 17 September Details from Ted Bell on 01920 467809 (T). Car Outing: Two Tree Island. Autumn migrants December Tuesday 25 February and seawatching. Meet in Belton Way by Leigh- Saturday 7 December Indoor Meeting: Paul Roper presents... ‘Gulls - On-Sea train station.Postcode SS9 2GB. Local Walk: A full day walk, / HMWT what a load of rubbish’ Tuesday 24 September Amwell, A walk around both reserves finishing by Indoor meeting: RSPB’s Stephanie Winnard viewing the Amwell gull roost. Meet in Rye Meads March presents…‘Saving the Albatross: Conservation reserve car park. Postcode: SG12 8JS (T). Thursday 5 March Action on the High Seas’. Tuesday 17 December Local Walk: Stanstead Innings. The lakes next to Sunday 29 September Indoor Meeting: Christmas Party! Rye Meads reserve looking for wintering wildfowl Celebrate 50 years of RSPB Members’ Groups. This meeting features a ‘bring and share’ supper, and other winter visitors. Meet in Rye Meads car Open day at Rye Meads reserve together with our own members showing their pictures and a park. Nearest Postcode: SG12 8JS (T). other local groups from 10.00 – 16.00. Lots of fun fun quiz. Always popular so come and enjoy the Tuesday 10 March activities for both adults and children. festivities! Car Outing: RSPB Rainham Marshes for Sunday 29 December wintering birds. Meet in the reserve car park. October Our traditional post Christmas walk. This year at Postcode RM19 1SZ (T). Wednesday 2 October Abberton Reservoir. Bring your leftover Christmas Tuesday 31 March Local Walk: Hanningfield Reservoir. Meet in the fare for lunch. Meet on the Layer Breton Indoor Meeting: Colin Kirtland presents.... ‘India: visitor centre car park. Postcode: CM11 1WT (T). causeway off the B1026.(T) the wonders of Rajasthan, its people and birds’. Sunday 6 to Wednesday 9 October Group Holiday: Explore the North Norfolk Coast! January 2020 April Join us for a three day wildlife break during the Sunday 19 January Friday 3 April most exciting month of the Norfolk birding year, Car outing: HMWT Stockers Lake. Wintering Local Walk: Tyttenhanger gravel pits. A chance staying at the Le Strange Hotel, Old Hunstanton, wildlife and often other rarities. Meet Aquadrome to see late leaving winter and early arriving Norfolk. Contact Phil Blatcher on 01992 441024. car park on Frogmore Lane. Nearest Postcode: summer migrants plus resident birds. Meet at the Sunday 27 October WD3 1NB (T). top end of Church Lane by the Model Railway Coach Outing: Rye Harbour. For late summer and Tuesday 28 January enclosure. Nearest Postcode: AL4 0NH. early winter migrants. Coach departs Ware 7.30, Indoor Meeting: RSPB’s Head of Ecology Graham Saturday 25 or Sunday 26 April Broxbourne 7.45. (T). White presents...’ Managing RSPB nature Coach Outing: RSPB Dungeness. An excellent Tuesday 29 October reserves for the future – a look at climate change reserve on the Kent coast for early arriving Indoor meeting: Wildlife Author Conor Jameson issues and new colonists’. summer migrants and sea birds. Coach departs presents... ‘Looking for the Goshawk – the lost Ware 7.30, Broxbourne 7.45 (T). raptor’’. February Tuesday 28 April Saturday 1 February Indoor meeting: Join us for our AGM and November Quiz: Our annual quiz in aid of the RSPB. Venue RSPB’s Local Groups Officer, Drew Lyness Tuesday 5 November URC hall. 7.00 for 7.30 start. Includes supper but presents…’Saving Nature Together’ Local Walk: / Grey’s Farm. BYO drinks. £72 for table of eight. Looking for farm land birds and raptors. Park in Sunday 2 February May the farmyard. There will be an introduction from Local Walk: RSPB Fowlmere Reserve for Tuesday 5 May – Friday 8 May the owner. Nearest Postcode: SG8 9NW roosting wintering passerines. Meet in the reserve Group Holiday: Mid / North Wales. Join us for car park at 1pm. Nearest Postcode: SG8 7SH (T). Saturday 16 November three days to explore the best of Welsh wildlife. Car Outing: Wood Walton and Holme Fens. A Saturday 15 or Sunday 16 February Further details will be made available through great site for water birds and raptors. Meet at the Coach outing: Hunstanton Cliffs and RSPB the Groups normal communication channels. end of Chapel Road (becomes rough track). Titchwell. For Fulmars and winter birds. Coach Postcode PE26 2RS (T). departs Broxbourne 7.30, Ware 7.45 (T).