Events
Unless otherwise specified, you do not need to be a member of the RSPB (or the local group) to join us on our events, and birdwatching experience is not necessary. If you have any questions please call the contact number shown with the event details.
February 2012
Tue14
Talk on Everything you didn't think you needed to know about trees by Michael Walter
Location: Chaucer Social Club, behind the Canterbury City Council offices, off Chaucer Road. Turn right into staff car park, drive to top of hill, then turn sharp right and hall is black building ahead of you.
Postcode: CT1 1YW (Google map)
Michael has been managing woodland nature reserves since 1973, but will tonight be providing a fairly light-hearted introduction to tree identification, together with a look at some of the issues they face, such as disease and climate change, while also touching on their cultural value and aesthetics.
Time: 8pm
Price: £3
Telephone: 01227 450655
E-mail: cyasproul@yahoo.co.uk
Sun19
Walk at Oare Marsh
Location: Contact leader for details of meeting place
A morning visit to this Kent Wildlife Trust reserve, where the combination of freshwater scrapes and tidal estuary mudflats helps to attract a variety of waders and ducks.
Time: Contact leader for details of time
Price: Suggested donation of £1
Booking essential
Telephone: 01227 793131
E-mail: michael.walter@rspb.org.uk
Mon20
Walk at Conyer
Location: Meet at Conyer
All-day walk
Time: 9.30am
Price: Suggested donation of £1
Telephone: 01227 361362
E-mail: alan.prior7@btinternet.com
March 2012
Tue13
Talk on The Wildlife of Hothfield Heathlands by Ian Rickards
Location: Chaucer Social Club, behind the Canterbury City Council offices, off Chaucer Road. Turn right into staff car park, drive to top of hill, then turn sharp right and hall is black building ahead of you.
Postcode: CT1 1YW (Google map)
Ian is warden of this Kent Wildlife Trust reserve, the only surviving area of wet heathland in the county.
Time: 8pm
Price: £3
Telephone: 01227 450655
E-mail: cyasproul@yahoo.co.uk
Mon19
Walk at Elmley RSPB Reserve
Location: Meet at Elmley RSPB car park
An all-day walk looking for waders and wildfowl.
Time: 9.45am
Price: Suggested donation of £1
Telephone: 01227 361362
E-mail: alan.prior7@btinternet.com
April 2012
Sun1
Spring Walk
Location: Contact leader for details
Venue yet to be decided, but it will be a walk through varied countryside to enjoy the scenery and find some early spring migrants in full song.
Time: Contact leader for details of time
Price: Suggested donation of £1
Booking essential
Telephone: 01227 455972
E-mail: michael.walter@rspb.org.uk
Tue10
AGM + talk on Iceland - Land of Fire and Ice by Wendy Kennett
Location: Chaucer Social Club, behind the Canterbury City Council offices, off Chaucer Road. Turn right into staff car park, drive to top of hill, then turn sharp right and hall is black building ahead of you.
Postcode: CT1 1YW (Google map)
Wendy is our new Group Leader and also a keen photographer, so we can look forward to some stunning photographs of this unusual country.
Time: 8pm
Price: £3
Telephone: 01227 450655
E-mail: cyasproul@yahoo.co.uk
Mon16
Walk at Mote Park
Location: Meet at Mote Park
An all-day walk at Mote Park, on the outskirts of Maidstone. Always obliges with a good variety of birds, from wildfowl on the lake to tree creepers in the woodland.
Time: 10am
Price: Suggested donation of £1
Telephone: 01227 361362
E-mail: alan.prior7@btinternet.com
Sun22
Walk at Stodmarsh
Location: Contact leader for details of venue.
A morning walk in spring at this popular National Nature Reserve. There should be plenty of breeding activity, with migrants flooding in from Africa.
Time: Contact leader for details of time.
Price: Suggested donation of £1
Booking essential
Telephone: 07790 258213
E-mail: glynncrocker@hotmail.co.uk