About the group
The group was formed in 1974 (over 35 years ago and still going strong) and was one of the earliest groups to be set up by the RSPB in the country with the aim of helping to further the work of the RSPB at a local level.
To that end we organise a programme of both indoor and outdoor meetings, assist on local reserves with work groups, attend local events selling RSPB goods and birdfood, and showing what a wealth of wildlife we have in North Kent.
We concentrate on the areas of North Kent that include the Hoo Peninsula, the Medway estuary, the Swale, the Isle of Sheppey and the North Downs, but our outdoor meetings have ranged from anywhere in Kent to, via coach trips, Slimbridge in the west, Titchfield Haven in the south, Fingringhoe Wick in the east and Titchwell Marsh in the north. Sometimes even France.
Our indoor meetings cover a range of subjects, not just birds. We have had speakers, with accompanying slideshows, talking about everything from hedgehogs to fungi to seals and to trees - and covering subjects from all over the world.
The indoor meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month, except August, and from September 2011 will be at Parkwood Community Centre, Rainham, ME8 9PN.
The doors open at 7:00pm and the meetings start at 7:30pm and finish at 9:45pm. Refreshments are free and there is a raffle, the proceeds of which go to the RSPB. Admission prices are £2.50 for group members and £3.00 for non-members
At our outdoor meetings (which are free) and coach trips we welcome anybody, novice or expert, member or not. If you see something that you don’t recognise there will be plenty of people willing to give a hand with identification, and not just with birds.
Indoor Presentations
20 December - Grumpy Birding - Bo Boelens
17 January - Unwrapping Raptors – David Darrell- Lambert
21 February - Swift Conservation – Edward Mayer
20 March - Travels with a Camera – Brett Lewis
Outdoor Visits (Walks)
Wednesday 16 November - Loose Valley - 9.00 am
Saturday 19 November - Palm Bay, Isle of Thanet
10.00 am (LT at 12 Noon)
Sunday 4 December - Dungeness RSPB Reserve - 10.00 am
Wednesday 7 December - Elmley Marshes RSPB Reserve - 9.00 am (HT 10.30 am)
Sunday 8 January - Northward Hill Corvid Watch - 3.00 pm
Sunday 22 January - Welney Wetland Centre - CT
Thursday 26 January - Elmley RSPB Reserve - 10.00 am
Saturday 4 February - Conyer Creek - 9.00 am
Wednesday 15 Feb - Bedgebury Pinetum -
12.00 Noon
Sunday 26 February - Dungeness RSPB Reserve - 10.00 am
Sunday 11 March - Grain - 10.00 am
Thursday 22 March - Oare Marshes KWT Reserve - 9.30 am
Public Events
Saturday 11 February - Sunday 19 February - DwN Riverside Country Park. ME7 2XH. (NKMRs & MLG)
See the Meetings pages for more details
For details of coach trips planned for 2012 click here
