LOCAL OUTINGS MAY 2017 TO AUGUST 2017
SUMMER MIGRANTS AT FLATTS LANE COUNTRY PARK MIDDLESBROUGH
Tuesday 9th May 2017
Meet in the car park at 9.15 a.m. at Flatts Lane Visitors Centre for a walk in search of summer migrants and other resident birds with Geoff Myers,who knows this area very well. Hopefully summer visitors should include the usual warblers including Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap and possibly Garden Warbler and Grasshopper Warbler. Many other resident woodland species should also be present.
Leader: Geoff Myers Tel: 01642 461850
NIGHTJARS
June 2017
It is hoped that the Nightjars will be back at Guisborough Forest this spring. If they are, it is intended to visit here on a June night. Seeing and hearing them is very much influenced by the weather. It is therefore the plan to advertise this walk at a later date on the website whenever the weather conditions look favourable.
RSPB SALTHOLME WILDERNESS WALK
Saturday 15th July 2017
Meet in RSPB reception at 10.00 a.m. and join Chris Sharp for a walk around the perimeter of the Reserve. A good selection of summer visitors should be present. Sedge, Reed and Grasshopper Warblers are almost guaranteed. The first returning waders should also be passing through.
Leader: Chris Sharp
SEATON SNOOK
Sunday 27th August 2017
Meet at the end of the Zinc Works Road at 9.00. Join Graeme Joynt for this outing which has been arranged to coincide with the incoming tide. Hopefully good numbers of passage waders should be present. Whimbrel, Grey Plover, Knot, Ringed Plover and Dunlin are amongst the targets but something scarcer may be present amongst the large numbers of the smaller waders which are often present here at this time of year. The Snook should also hold several species of tern at this time.
Leader: Graeme Joynt