2011 Programme
Indoor meetings are held at Weston Longville Village Hall on the third Thursday of the month starting at 19.30. Field trips are generally the last Saturday or Sunday of the month. Click to download the WVBS 2011 Programme updated 12-04-2011, or viewed below.
See the ‘Latest News’ in the panel on the right hand side of the page for details. You can also click on the topic ‘Diary’ to get the list of event announcements.
The indoor meeting event reports for 2010 are here, for 2011 here, and reports on field trips here.
2011 Programme
| Date | Details | |
| January | ||
| Sun 9th | Field trip | Winter Count Richard Norris |
| Thu 20th | Talk | “A Breckland Farm” – Chris Knights |
| Sun 23rd | Field trip | Strumpshaw Fen, Buckenham Marshes & Corvid Roost – Leader Glen Collier |
| February | ||
| Thu 17th | Talk | “Lundy a personal view” – Richard Campey |
| Sun 27th | Field trip | “The Length of the Valley” Part 3 – Leader Andrew Brown |
| March | ||
| Thu 17th | Talk | “Dragonflies and other Wildlife” – Dr Pam Taylor |
| Sun 27th | Field trip | Walk in North Norfolk |
| April | ||
| Sat 16th | Field trip | (8.30a.m.) Visit BTO HQ and Nunnery Reserve |
| Thu 21st | Talk & AGM | AGM followed by BTO Nest Record Scheme – Dave Leech |
| Date tba | Field trip | Nest Finding & Recording with Dave Leech |
| May | ||
| Sun 15th | Field trip | Dawn Chrous and Bacon Butties; Sparham Pools – Leader Glen Collier |
| Sat 21st | (Diary Date) | Wild About the Wensum at Pensthorpe, Fakenham (diary date) |
| Sun 29th | Field trip | Suffolk Wildlife Trust Lackford Lakes Reserve – Leader Alec Waller |
| June | ||
| Thu 16th | Field trip | Nightjar evening – Leader Josh Leeder |
| Sat 25th | Field trip | Sennowe Park – Leader Steve Cale |
| July | ||
| Sun 24th | Field trip | Blakeney Point – Leader tba |
| August | ||
| Sun 14th | Field trip | RSPB Havergate Island Reserve, Suffolk – Leader Liz Bridge |
| Thu 21st | Indoor meeting | Summer Social Evening |
| Fri 19-Sun 21st | (Diary Date) | Bird Fair at Rutland Water, Leics (coach possible) |
| September | ||
| Thu 15th | Talk | “A thousand years of birdwatching in the Castle Rising area” – Professor Fred Cooke |
| Sun 25th | Field Trip | Breydon Water/Berney Marshes – Leader tba |
| October | ||
| Sat 15th | (Diary Date) | Wild about Norfolk Fair at Easton College |
| Thu 20th | Talk | “The Birds & Beasts of the Kruger National Park, South Africa” – David Pelling |
| Sun 30th |
Field Trip | North Norfolk Coast – Leader tba |
| November | ||
| Thu 17th | Talk | “A Fair Isle Season” – Rebecca Nason |
| Sat 26th | Field trip | Chris Skinner’s High Ash Farm, Caistor St Edmunds – Leader tba |
| December | ||
| Thu 15th | Indoor meeting | Christmas Social at Weston Longville Village Hall |