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
17 April - Futurescapes +AGM - Alan Johnson
15 May - A Year in Wormwood Scrubbs - David Lindo
19 June - Kruger National Park - Don Wilks
17 July - Wildlife of the South East - Jodie Randall
Outdoor Visits (Walks)
Thursday 22 March - Oare Marshes KWT Reserve -
9.30 am
Saturday 31 March - Hothfield Common LNR - 10.00 am
Sunday 15 April - Rye Harbour/Fore Wood RSPB - 10.00 am
Sunday 22 April - Great Bustard Proj. - Wiltshire
Coach Trip.
Wednesday 25 April - Smokes Wood, Hucking Estate, Hollingbourne - 9.30 am
Saturday 28 April - Northward Hill RSPB - Dawn Chorus Walk - 5.30 am
Wednesday 9 May - Chattenden Woods, Nightingale Walk - 9.00 am
Sunday 20 May - Stodmarsh/Grove Ferry - 9.00 am
Sunday 27 May - Weeting Heath/Lakenheath Fen RSPB Coach Trip
Sunday 10 June - Bough Beech Reservoir - 10.00 am
Saturday 16 June - Nightjar Watch - Venue & Time to be Confirmed
Sunday 24 June - Nashenden Valley KWT - 9.00 am
Wednesday 4 July - Isle of Oxney Farm Walk -
9.30 am
Sunday 8 July - Samphire Hoe - 10.00 am
Wednesday 18 July - Bluebell Hill/Burham - 10.00 am
Public Events
Saturday 23 June - Twydall Schools Summer Fete, Twydall. ME8 6JH. (MLG).
Sunday 24 June - Open Day, Friends of Broomhill Park, Strood. ME2 3LZ (MLG).
See the Meetings pages for more details
For details of coach trips planned for 2012 click here
