Speaker: Nick Acheson
Reporter: Sue Gale

There was so much information packed in to the one and a bit hours of this riveting Zoom presentation that it is pretty much impossible to summarise. What can I leave out? Nick took us at breakneck speed through the 7 main landscape types found in Norfolk, telling us something of their history and evolution as well as describing the types of flora and fauna associated with each. And one of the 7 was subdivided into 3!

Speaker: Dr Dave Horsley
Reporter: Sue Gale

Dave is a fan of birding in the Spanish Steppes, parts of Spain close to the Portuguese border and very much inland. They are between 600-900 metres above sea level, so the numbers of large raptors that we often associate with mountains are not too surprising. Also, some of the passerines like the lovely Rock Bunting he showed us. The Southern Steppes identified by Dave were in Extremadura, and many of the areas were familiar to those club members who travelled to Spain in 2019, bringing back happy memories.

Speaker: James Robinson
Reporter: Sue Gale
James Robinson is lucky enough to work for the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust (WWT) at Slimbridge, although like most of us he is spending more time at home than at Slimbridge at the moment. WWT has been a leading partner in the international efforts to save the Spoon- billed Sandpiper from extinction, so who better to tell us the story and give us the latest update?

​Speaker: Lizzie Bruce, RSPB Warden
Reporter: Alan Hughes​
Lizzie Bruce is the RSPB Reserves Warden responsible for 2 sites that she correctly
assumed most of us were familiar with – Titchwell and Snettisham – plus 2 confidential sites in NW Norfolk (interesting….did I notice some ears pricking up at the mention of those?), and she treated us to a look at the reserves through the seasons of the year – although 2020 turned out to be like no other, of course.