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                Welcome To The Official Website

            For The Burbage Birders Travel Club

                                                   INC BURBAGE BIRD CLUB

                                    The Leicestershire Lowlisters?          

                                               The Montague's Story!

                                                   Thekla Lark Clip!

                         Fantastic Pic's from The Members! & Brain Pollard!

 

 

Is this the Leicester Tigers front row ?

Or has Joan just dropped 5 pence!!!!

No it's 3 members searching for Orchids in

Magical Majorca 2009.

 

 

 

 

Hands up all those who thought Majorca was parched

and brown. Well you're wrong, as this picture of the Albufreta

quite clearly shows.

Birds around this area were- Purple and Squacco Herons,

Eleonoras Falcon, Purple Swamp Hen and Kentish Plover

Picture Ken Reeves 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Red Breasted Sapsucker  Taken by Brian P during his visit

 to Vancouver Island  in 09.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once again Brian Pollard's picture of a Kingfisher @ Venus Pool

makes the home page. To view the  pics sent in by BB members

go to the pictures page.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                  Latest daily bird news from LROS

UK TRIPS!- 

The Sensational Scillies!-

8 Days around the stunning islands of the Scillies. St Marys, Tresco, St Martins, Bryher and St Agnes.

These islands over the years have produced some of the rarest birds that have graced our shores.

Yellow bellied Sapsucker, Northern Parula and Black and White Warbler to name just a few.

Dumfries and Galloway!-   

Long weekend November 2009 27th,28th &29th

All trips in 2009 are being concentrated on the UK mainland & islands

CONTINENTAL TRIPS !-

 TARIFA & SOUTHERN SPAIN 2010 TBA

NORTHERN GREECE 2010 TBA

SHORTCUTS !-

MAJORCA Trip Report 08!                       Jan 1st Trip Report 2008!                   Parakeet REPORT !

Latest Florida pic's 07                                Monthly Local Walks!                         Scilly's Report 2006 Now !

Natures Calendar Filming!                       Yellow Wagtail ID !                            Burbage Bird Club info!

                    Nest Building @ the Common!            EXTREMADURA Trip Report 08 (new)

RECOMMENDED PLACES TO STAY WHEN BIRDING  ( all tried by ourselves )!

   

 

 

View from farmhouse yard at the entrance to the Bocquer valley

taken by Janet Southwood on her first birding holiday to Majorca.

 

 

                    

                                                                             

 

The Bocquer Valley path. Well known to every birder who visits

Majorca. These rocks are the home of a confiding Blue Rock Thrush

Janet Southwood Again!

 

 

 

 

Taken from the 6th floor of the superb Pollensa Park Hotel in

Puerto Pollensa. From here Bee-eaters hawk the town and Ospreys

fish the bay

Janet Southwood yet again. I think Janet and her long suffering

husband David will be here again.

 

   

 

 

 

        Bob Lodge looking towards his return trip

           to the magnificent Island of Majorca.

 

                           

 

BIRDWATCHING FOR BEGINNERS!

An intensive but lighthearted course teaching you how to identify birds to a standard
you never thought possible
Your Tutors will be author and birder Neil Glenn plus forty years birder and twitcher
Ken Reeves Both have extensive knowledge throughout the UK , Europe and North America
The course lasts for 4 weeks and two daytime field trips are included
so come along and let us teach you all we know .

For full details contact  01455274173 or 07900334371

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