North East Norfolk Bird Club

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Membership Renewal - Subscriptions for 2025

Jan 24, 2025 Carol Thornton

Membership Renewal - Subscriptions for 2025
 
We hope you will continue to support the club in 2025, our 10th Anniversary Year, by renewing your membership with us. The subs, which were due on 1st January, remain the same as last year: 
 
2025 calendar year membership of £15 per household to include a copy of the club’s printed 2024 Annual Bird Report which we hope will be ready for publication in the summer, or £12 without the report. 
 
Our preferred method of payment is by standing order, but one-off payments can be made electronically to the club account (Account Number: 20842968 / Sort Code: 30- 94-34; TSB) or by posting a cheque to the membership secretary Colin Blaxill at Caitlins, Bernard Close, High Kelling, Holt NR25 6QY. Cheques need to be made payable to “North East Norfolk Bird Club” and not NENBC. If you want to pay by cash then catch Colin or one of the other Committee Members at one of our events.
 
Many thanks for your continuing support and engagement.

The BTO 2025 Heathland Birds Survey

Jan 24, 2025 Carol Thornton

SURVEY SITES AVAILABLE IN OUR AREA IF YOU ARE INTERESTED .....

The BTO 2025 Heathland Birds Survey will survey Nightjars, Woodlarks and Dartford Warblers, in all habitats, throughout the UK and Channel Islands in 2025. 

This will provide much needed population estimates since the previous survey around 20 years ago.

In addition to known sites, a sample of nearby suitable habitat will be covered to assess range expansion. Along with heathland, other sites will also be surveyed, such as clear-cut areas in commercial forests, moorlands, and coastal scrub, as they too are home to a similar selection of key species.

Twelve other important heathland bird species will be recorded, including Hobby, Long-eared Owl, Linnet, Tree Pipit and Grasshopper Warbler.

This survey, funded by Natural England and Defra, will be coordinated by BTO in partnership with RSPB. 

The online survey is open for registration and volunteers can sign up and request their survey squares for each species. All survey sites will be provided as 1-km squares, and volunteers will need to make a minimum of two visits to survey each species. 

Survey periods are 15 February to 31 May for Woodlark, 1 April to 30 June for Dartford Warbler, and 25 May to 15 July for Nightjar. 

For more information and to find out if sites are available near you, please head to: https://www.bto.org/our- science/projects/heathland- birds-survey

Best wishes
Jon Carter
Media Manager
 

Nature, Climate and the Church of England: The Bishop of Norwich in conversation with Nick Acheson

Jan 24, 2025 Carol Thornton

Nature, Climate and the Church of England: The Bishop of Norwich in conversation with Nick Acheson
When: Thursday March 13th 18.30
Where: Church of St Andrew the Apostle, Church St, Holt, NR25 6BB
Ticket price: £11.50

Tickets for the March 13th conversation between the Bishop of Norwich and Nick Acheson are now available and are selling fast, so go to https://felbeckfundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk They are only £11.50 and profits will go to Felbeck Trust.

The event will start at 18.30 with drinks available in the Meeting Room next to the church (not included in the ticket price), with the conversation starting at 19.15 and finishing, after a Q and A session, at 20.45. 

As you may well know, the Bishop, the Rt Rev Graham Usher, is the Church of England's lead on the environment and sustainability - and a keen beekeeper. Many of you will have met Nick or heard him talk, and will know what a stimulating and well-informed speaker he is. If you haven't read it, read his wonderful book, 'The Meaning of Geese'. He is also a patron of Felbeck Trust.

So, don't waste any time: go ahead and purchase a ticket or two - or more!

NENBC Newsletter - January 2025

Jan 15, 2025 Carol Thornton

Here is the January 2025 edition of the NENBC monthly e-newsletter.

We don't currently have all of the past newsletters available on the website but if you are interested in any of them, please get in touch and we can email you a copy. If you are a club member and you aren't receiving a monthly email from us (usually the 2nd week of most months) please get in touch so we can look into what the problem may be.

NENBC Newsletter - December 2024

Dec 15, 2024 Carol Thornton

Here is the December 2024 edition of the NENBC monthly e-newsletter.

We don't currently have all of the past newsletters available on the website but if you are interested in any of them, please get in touch and we can email you a copy. If you are a club member and you aren't receiving a monthly email from us (usually the 2nd week of most months) please get in touch so we can look into what the problem may be.

NENBC Newsletter - November 2024

Nov 19, 2024 Carol Thornton

Here is the November 2024 edition of the NENBC monthly e-newsletter.

We don't currently have all of the past newsletters available on the website but if you are interested in any of them, please get in touch and we can email you a copy. If you are a club member and you aren't receiving a monthly email from us (usually the 2nd week of most months) please get in touch so we can look into what the problem may be.

NENBC Newsletter - October 2024

Oct 14, 2024 Carol Thornton

Here is the October 2024 edition of the NENBC monthly e-newsletter.

We don't currently have all of the past newsletters available on the website but if you are interested in any of them, please get in touch and we can email you a copy. If you are a club member and you aren't receiving a monthly email from us (usually the 2nd week of most months) please get in touch so we can look into what the problem may be.

NENBC Newsletter - September 2024

Sep 11, 2024 Carol Thornton


Here is the September 2024 edition of the NENBC monthly e-newsletter.

We don't currently have all of the past newsletters available on the website but if you are interested in any of them, please get in touch and we can email you a copy. If you are a club member and you aren't receiving a monthly email from us (usually the 2nd week of most months) please get in touch so we can look into what the problem may be

The NENBC Bird Report 2023 is back from the printers ..

Sep 1, 2024 Carol Thornton

... we are just getting them sorted and packed up so if you requested one with your membership renewal this year, expect your copy to drop through your letterbox in the next couple of weeks.

The Pied Flyer - August 2024

Aug 17, 2024 Carol Thornton


Here is the August 2024 edition of the NENBC monthly e-newsletter.

We don't currently have all of the past newsletters available on the website but if you are interested in any of them, please get in touch and we can email you a copy. If you are a club member and you aren't receiving a monthly email from us (usually the 2nd week of most months) please get in touch so we can look into what the problem may be.