Help to Conserve Dorset's wild birds.

Join and support the Dorset Bird Club.

Contact: Diana Dyer, The Cedars, 3 Osmay Road, Swanage, Dorset.
or via e-mail to Diana Dyer
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or by phone on 01929 421402

Our Next Field Meeting

Saturday 13th February – Blashford Lakes (SU151082) 9.30am – meet at the Wessex Water Treatment Works off Ellingham Drove – 2 miles north of Ringwood Leader Trevor Thorpe

For more information contact our outdoor meetings officer Trevor Thorpe by e-mail
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Our Next Indoor Meetings

Saturday 27th March 2010
Dorset Bird Club A.G.M 19:00hrs
Wareham Methodist Church Hall

20:00hrs talk by Mike Bailey of Chew Valley Ringing Group on behalf of the BTO on 'A Hundred Years of Ringing' to celebrate the BTO Centenary.

e-mail - Ian by Clicking Here

Your Help is Required

BTO Atlas

Fieldwork for the Atlas started on 1st November. Two types of records are requested - Roving Records aim to capture all kinds of distribution records, from species lists for grid squares to one-off records of hard to find species, and anything in between.

Timed Tetrad Visits (TTVs) are principally concerned with discovering the broad patterns of relative abundance. A TTV involves walking around a tetrad, birdwatching for 1 or 2 hours and recording everything you see and hear.

To see if there is a Tretrad near you to survey or one you would like to survey:-Click Here

If you would like any information regarding the Atlas survey, eg allocation of tetrads etc, then please do contact the BTO at The Nunnery. Dawn Balmer or Simon Gillings will be pleased to help and to answer any queries you may have or e-mail the BTO by Clicking Here

Now Available the 2007
Dorset Bird Report

There are limited numbers of the Dorset Bird Reports which are available to non-members each year. For more information and to see availability of back copies. Click Here

Wind Farm

Keep up with the proposed Wind Farm, mapped out for the Isle of Purbeck, to learn more Click Here