North-East London RSPB Local Group

If you have no plans this evening, why not pop along to the North-East London RSPB local groups monthly indoor talk - Details below.

Indoor Talk by Chris Goodie on "Finding Jewel Thrushes".

Date:  Tuesday 7th May at 7.15pm
Location:  Snaresbrook Primary School, Meadow Walk, South Woodford, E18 2EN
RSPB Members £2.00, non-members £2.50, school children free

Chris Goodie's recent book describes (with great charm) his unique feat of successfully seeing within one year all 32 species of Pitta Thrushes. They usually live on wet forest ground in Asia, Africa and Australasia - not that in a dark forest they are particularly easy to see, despite the varied and brilliant colours of their feathers that makes them something of an obsession with birdwatchers.

You may like to put in your diary the next meeting, on Tuesday 12th June when Richard Pople introduces us to the "Birds of Morocco".

Perhaps we can remind you of the coach trip to the RSPB reserve at Pulborough Brooks, organised by the Havering RSPB Group on 26th May. It is a large and varied reserve with a particular civilised visitor centre and the water meadows should be just the place for waders and wildfowl, with the summer migrants now back in the woodland. The coach costs £15 and leaves Romford at 7.30am, returning at 7pm, but you have to book in advance if you want to get on, so telephone 017 0855 8399 or 075 2300 7282 or email thewriter27@hotmail.com to fix a place for yourself.

David Littlejohns
Publicity Officer, NELondon RSPB Local Group