Cambridgeshire Bird Club
     

Welcome to our website

We record the county's birds in our Annual Report, so we need your Records. We have a stunning Gallery, so we need your photos. We discuss things on Cambirds, we do Research, we have indoor Meetings, we have a Partnership with an African bird-club and we inform you with our regular Bulletins and lots more.

You can see 'What's About?' and we urge you to report promptly interesting sightings to the County Recorder

We hope you enjoy your visit and come back soon.


Next indoor meetings:

Friday 10th May, Cottenham Village CollegePenguin

New Generation Techniques for Penguin Conservation by Tom Hart

Tom Hart is Post Doctoral Research Assistant at the Institute of Zoology, Univeristy of Oxford. His current research interests include the foraging ecology of Macaroni penguins and the population genetics of penguins in the Southern Ocean.

Maps of meeting sites


Latest News

The atlas production is well underway and expected to go to the printer in early April.


A message from the Wildlife Trust: Voluntary bird surveyor (Ecology Groups)

Join your local Ecology Group and help monitor local reserves using your skills to identify birds by their songs. Monitoring the structure of our nature reserves is of great importance to the Trust and just one way of approaching this is to focus on the wildlife using that structure. We are looking for new volunteers to join our existing teams, the Ecology Groups, to help carry out breeding bird transects annually, gathering data to sample the birds breeding in woodland and scrub habitats. Reserves currently in need of monitoring include Grafham Water, Waresley and Gransden Wood and other sites in northern Cambridgeshire as well.

Essential skills required include the ability to identify birds by their songs and calls. If you would be interested in joining us or would like further details about the Ecology Groups please contact me, Henry Stanier, Ecology Groups Officer at The Manor House, Broad Street, Great Cambourne, Cambridge CB23 6DH / email ecologygroups@wildlifebcn.org.


Volunteer swan feeders

The WWT Welney Wetland Centre is currently looking for friendly and enthusiastic people to become part of the team of swan feeders, delivering talks to visitors whilst giving food to the wintering wildfowl out on the reserve.
Further details can be found here:
General information
Full role description
For more information, and to apply for this volunteer position please contact Samantha Lee or 01353864027


Facebook

Cambridgeshire Bird Club now has a Facebook page.
Please take a look.


Do we have your email address?

The bird club bulletin is now available in an electronic format (pdf) that allows us to save paper and also includes enhanced content (such as colour images)
If you would like to receive your bulletin in this format instead of the paper copy please contact cbcbulletin@cambridgebirdclub.org.uk


Video site

The Cambridgeshire Bird Club now has a video blog site here.
Instructions on how to get your videos on the site are also on the page. We will not host videos due to space issues but can embed them if you sent a YouTube (or similar) link.


Black-necked Grebe

Picture of the month for April
Black-necked Grebe, Fen Drayton
1st April 2013 ©Yves Gisseleire
Picture chosen by Guy Belcher
"The April photo gallery was full of glorious images that really captured the excitement of the start of Spring. Breeding residents such as Simon's Great Crested Grebe on the nest and his incredible shot of the drumming Snipe were real contenders. As were the portraits of departing winter visitors such as Gary and Brian's Short Eared Owl and Peter's Fieldfare. The numerous warblers and other summer migrant shots showed Spring had finally arrived and the mixed flock images of passage waders in breeding plumage made me want to drop everything and head outdoors. However, I've chosen an image taken on the 1st April as this months winner. Yves Gisseleire composition of the Black Necked Grebe at Fen Drayton, shows the grebe in stunning breeding plumage, the bright red eye staring back at the observer. In my opinion a super image."

See all the pictures in the Gallery here
Previous Pictures of the Month can be seen here


2011 winner

CBC photograph of the year, 2012:
Waxwing,Oakington
30th November 2012 ©Garth Peacock
The Club's congratulations go to Garth.

2011 Runner up

CBC photograph of the year 2012, runner-up:
Tawny Owl, Cambs
2 April 2012 ©Garth Peacock


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