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Coach Trips:
Depart from Bickley Station leaving promptly at the
time stated in the programme. Please book Coach Trips early contact
Jim Fillery with the full fare. Early booking is essential if we are
to avoid cancelling the coach.
Car Trips: We will be meeting at the venue at the time stated in the
programme. Every effort will be made to ensure that people without cars
have a lift but this cannot always be guaranteed anyone needing a lift
will have to arrange this. Please listen for announcement at the
meetings or in the newsletter.
Remember that:
Coach
and car trips are all day affairs and members must be self sufficient.
Ensure that you have protective clothing, appropriate footwear, a flask,
sandwiches etc, and have RSPB, WWT or other membership cards when
visiting their Reserves. A contribution to driver's costs on car trips
and on wet days, please avoid muddying car interiors.
Local Walks:
All local walks start at 9:30am at stated meeting point and
usually end between 12:30pm- 1.00pm
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Local walk
Jubilee Country Park (Bromley)
Thursday 11th January
Meet at
Blackbrook Lane car park 9:30am
Leader:
Bob Land
Click on link below for location map
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This
walk is at one of
LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY
Local Nature Reserve
consist of mainly
woodland with some grazed areas For
more information about Jubilee Country Park Click on link
above.
Target Species: Common woodland birds with highlights
in the past being Bullfinch and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.
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Car Trip to Barn Elms (W.W.T)
Sunday 14th January
Meet at Barn Elms Car Park
Click on link below for location map
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Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust reserve. Wetland complex of lagoons,
scrapes and wet meadows and also a collection of international
wildfowl. Large numbers of over wintering ducks. Please
note: Admission Charge applies to non WWT members
Target Species: Over wintering ducks and geese,
possible bitten
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Local Walk
Cudham area (Bromley)
Saturday 17th February
Meet at Cudham Recreational Ground
car park 9:30am
off Cudham Lane South, Cudham
Leader: Derek McWalter
Click on link below for location
map
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The
Cudham area is a mixture of woodland, open grazed fields and
country lanes. For more
information about the Cudham Area
Click on
London Borough of Bromley.
Target Species: Winter Thrushes Redwing, Fieldfare and hopefully
Kestrel and Sparrowhawk as well as the usual assortment of
woodland and farmland birds like the Chaffinch, Skylark,
Meadow Pipit, Yellowhammer.
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Local Walk
South Norwood Country Park (Croydon)
Friday 16th March
Meet at Elmers End Road (A214) entrance 9:30am
Leader: Bob Francis
Click on link below for location
map
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South Norwood Country Park is an old sewage farm on the borders of Bromley and Croydon
boroughs and a designated Local Nature Reserve which has various habitats from wet grassland
to willow scrub and a large lake. The country park covers an area of
over 45 hectares (115 acres) which is a haven for wildlife an an
important site for nature conservation and in the past has have some
interesting birds such as Long eared Owl, Bullfinch, Redpoll, for
further details you can find out what has been sighted by clicking
on the links below. Unofficial South Norwood
Country Park website :
http://www.freewebs.com/southnorwoodcountrypark/index.htm
Target Species: Jack snipe, Common snipe, Kingfisher,
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Car Trip to Northwood Hill RSPB Reserve & Egypt Bay (Kent)
(TQ784759)
Sunday 18th March
Meet at Northwood Hill RSPB Reserve car park
Click on link below for location
map
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Northwood Hill consist of
deciduous woodland of ash, oak and maple with elm scrub and dense
thickets of hawthorn
& Britain's largest heronry then we continue on to Egypt Bay
which is salt-marsh with tidal flow from the Thames estuary.
Target Species: Long-eared owl, Over
wintering Woodcock, Pintail, Berwick & Whooper Swans,
Brent Geese and possible White-fronted Geese and Gadwall.
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Local Walk
Ruxley Gravel Pits
Site of Special
Scientific Interest (S.S.SI)
(Bromley)
Saturday 14th April
2006
Meet at the Main Entrance 9:30am
Edgington Way (A223)
Off Sidcup Bypass (A20) (Crittall's
Corner)
Parking on Dirt Track
underneath Sidcup Bypass
Leader: Richard Herbert
Click on link below for location
map
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This oasis of
11 hectare complex of lakes, islands
and promontories, The open water and
marginal swamps provide a rare
habitat for many wetland birds,
plants and invertebrates amongst the
surrounding built up area of
housing, industry and roads. Over
500 species of plants have been
recorded and new bird records are
been added almost every year
The reserve is normally closed to
the public. The Site is managed by
Kent Wildlife Trust
Click link for further details.
Target Species:
Overwintering waterfowl, Grebes,
Geese, Ducks also Kingfisher,
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Coach Trip
Please
note: Change of venue from originally
published
on Bromley RSPB Website
Minsmere RSPB Reserve (Suffolk) (TM452680)
Sunday 15th April
Meet at Bickley
Railway Station Car Park
Southborough
Road, Bickley
Off Bickley
Road/Bickley Park (A222)
Coach Leaves at
8:00am prompt
Click on link
below for location map
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The RSPB's perimeter reserve with
with excellent visitor centre, restaurant, shop and toilets with an
scrape area of brackish water, mud and islands as well as extensive
reedbeds with meres, heathland, woodland grazing marshes the sand
dunes of nearby National Trust Dunwich Heath. Click on
Minsmere RSPB Reserve For
more details.
Target Species:
Garganey, Hobby, Whimbrel, Green & Wood Sandpiper, Spotted Redshank,
Greenshank, Breeding Avocet, Little, Common & Sandwich Terns,
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Cuckoo.
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Local Walk
Sydenham Hill Wood Local Nature Reserve
(Southwark)
(London
Wildlife Trust)
Thursday 10th May
Meet outside the Dulwich Woodhouse
Public House 9:30am
Sydenham Hill and
Junction of Crescent Wood Road opposite Wells Park Road
Sydenham SE26
Leader: Bob Francis
Click on link
below for Location Map
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Sydenham Hill Wood combined with
the adjacent Dulwich Wood forms the largest remaining tract
of the old Great North Wood which once stretched from
Deptford to Croydon. consisting of Victorian extensive
gardens were established in Sydenham Hill and the wood is
now a unique mix of old woodland, Victorian garden survivors
and recent woodland. The wood is rich in wildlife been the
home to over 200 species of trees and flowering plants
including wild garlic, early dog violet and bugle. A
multitude of fungi, rare insects, birds including declining
species like Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and Bullfinch and
elusive woodland mammals are also present. The
London Wildlife Trust began
managing the wood in 1982, after a campaign by local people
to stop it been redeveloped it remains a valuable reserve
for the continued benefit of wildlife and people. Cox's Walk
is an old avenue lined with oaks that support nuthatch and
green woodpecker.
Please Note:
There is no Toilet Facilities on site.
Target Species: Common
Woodland birds Great spotted, & Green Woodpeckers sometimes
Bullfinch & Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (both a declining
species) as well as the summer migrants warblers Chiffchaff,
Blackcap and possible Garden Warbler.
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Coach Trip
Please
note: Change of date & venue
Fingringhoe Wick (Essex) (TM041195)
(Essex Wildlife Trust)
Sunday 27th May
Meet at Bickley
Railway Station Car Park
Southborough
Road, Bickley
Off Bickley
Road/Bickley Park (A222)
Coach Leaves at
8:00am prompt
Click on link
below for location map
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Once a farm then a gravel pit the site today supports a wealth of
wildlife in a wide range of habitats that have evolved since the
Essex Wildlife Trust acquired the worked out in 1961. There is a range of
habitats from heathland, scrapes and
reedbeds to the important feeding grounds for waders of
the Colne
estuary.
with a well stocked visitor centre, information centre &
toilets.
Target Species:
Nightingale, Turtle dove, Sedge & Willow warbler, Black-tailed
godwit & Curlew possible Hen harrier.
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Local Walk
Footscray Meadows
Local Nature Reserve (LNR) (Bexley)
Thursday 14th June
Meet at Church Road
Off North Cray Road (A223)
by footpath to Five Arch Bridge
9:30am
Leader: Bob Land
Click on link
below for location map
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This
Bexley Council
site of around 97 acres of a good mixture of habitats from woodlands, wetlands
to wildflower meadows with the chalk base River
Cray flowing through the middle which holding good numbers of the
endangered Water vole & White-clawed crayfish as well as the usual waterfowl and maybe a
Little egret might drop in. For further details click on the
following link
Friends of Footscray Meadows
Target Species:
Kingfisher, Little egret, Garden & Willow warbler, Lesser
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Car Trip
Farnham Heath
Sunday 17th June
Meet at Farnham Heath Car Park (Surrey)
(grid reference SU859433)Follow the B3001 south of Farnham in
the direction of Tilford. Just outside Tilford village there is
a sign to the Rural Life centre. Follow these signs.
Click on
link below for location map
Mutimap to Farnham Heath
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Farnham is one of
the RSPB’s newest reserves, The car park and toilet facilities are
shared with the Rural Life centre, It can be found just outside
Tilford village in Surrey. The reserve is an area of heath and
woodland with Wooded area with coniferous trees under a ten year
program of clearance to revert back to heathland,
come
and join us at this new venue-if you need a lift to the site please
contact us and we will endeavor to put you in contact with someone
near you .Target Species:
Tree pipits, woodlarks and on a warm spring evening listen for
nightjars and woodcock.
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