Category Archives: Birds

anything to do with birds

There is no music in the nightingale

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A nightingale sang in Mayfield Square
Click on the bird for a full LAMBS report. The BBC has elicited a response from the ecowibble office at Mayfield Market Towns Limited:

We have already employed ecologists to carry out preliminary studies, and the next stage will be to conduct more in-depth ecological studies which we will be consulting on at a later stage. This is all part of the normal planning process and we wouldn’t be allowed to develop without showing that we have looked at our ecological impact.

[Title from Shakespeare, illustration by Henry Stannard]

Birdsong for Beginners

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Mike Russell Birdsong for Beginners

Tutor: Mike Russell
Venue: Woods Mill
Date: Wednesday 16th April
Time: 10:00 — 16:00

This course is aimed at those people interested in getting started in finding out about bird song and learning to recognise the song of a few of our common birds. It may also interest those who are a bit rusty on their bird song and would like a refresher.

** Booking and detailed course information sheet **

Beginning Nature Photography

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David Plummer Beginning Nature Photography
Tutor: David Plummer
Venue: Woods Mill
Date: Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th April
Time: 10:00 – 16:00 both days

A two day course for beginners with digital SLR cameras only. Day 1: Camera basics, manual control, manual metering, aperture priority and depth of field control. Day 2: advanced metering, composition, making a good shot better, fieldwork and supports, focussing and where it goes wrong, putting it all together.

** Booking and course information **

Follow that cuckoo ..

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Cuckoo trackingDr. Phil Atkinson of the British Trust for Ornithology is giving a talk entitled “Follow that cuckoo and other stories” in the Garden Room at The Henfield Hall at 7:30pm on Friday 28th February. The talk will cover the use of such things as geolocators and satellite tracking which have enabled us to learn much more about the movements of certain species of migrating bird once they have left our shores.

[Free for members of Henfield Birdwatch, £3.00 on the door for nonmembers.]

Have you lost a bird?

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Mike Russell Sussex Wildlife Trust

Mike Russell

Finding Birds in West Sussex

Sussex Wildlife Trust is offering a package of five field trips, from February to November 2014, led by Mike Russell, and including the Henfield Levels (February); The Burgh, Burpham (April); Stedham and Iping Commons (June); Chidham and Cobnor (September); and Amberley Wildbrooks (November). The subjects covered will include bird identification techniques; migration and seasonal factors in bird distribution; and habitats. This is a multi-session package: individual trips cannot be booked.

** Booking and detailed course information sheet **

Fulking Bird Watch

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Edward Lear birds
Bob Rowland’s invaluable record of Fulking bird sightings over two decades has a new title — Fulking Bird Watch — and some new reference content. You will find it as ‘Bird Watch’ in the sidebar menu under ‘The Environment’. Check it out and follow some of the links provided. And if you see something that isn’t on the list, then let Bob have the details.

Learn to twitch

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Mike Russell Sussex Wildlife Trust

Mike Russell

An Introduction to Birds and Birdwatching

Sussex Wildlife Trust is offering a five month course at Woods Mill, from January to June 2014, taught by Mike Russell, and involving both indoor sessions and outside field trips that will visit many top bird sites in Sussex. The course covers identification techniques, habitats, bird conservation and populations, migration and birdsong. Suitable for beginners and those with a little knowledge.

** Booking and detailed course information sheet **