Our AGM and Members' Day takes place this Saturday, 28 March, at St Swithun's School, Winchester. Join us for a great variety of talks including Roy Dennis on "A Lifetime of Rewilding". Free for members, £10 non-members. No need to pre-book
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We were delighted to help finance a new Sand Martin bank at Hampshire Wildlife Trust's Testwood Lakes reserve
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Super article in December @britishbirds.bsky.social detailing use of passive bioacoustic recorders to detect Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - thanks to @lesserspotnet.bsky.social @simongillings.bsky.social @hosbirding.bsky.social et al
A glimmer of hope? 🙏
Read here:
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We are very honoured. To everyone in HOS who has helped us in any way in recent years, we thank you for making us the best that we can be.
Marking the award, Juliet Vickery, Chief Executive of the BTO, particularly highlighted HOS’s work with young people, and its determination to increase female involvement alongside excellent fieldwork.
HOS team members have been in London this week to receive a national award recognising excellence in local ornithology. Every year the Marsh Charitable Trust and the British Trust for Ornithology select a local organisation to receive the distinction based on their achievements.
Bonaparte's Gull (centre) accompanied by Black-headed Gulls
I was about to give up in the miserable weather on Saturday when I noticed an unusually large roost of gulls on Keyhaven Lagoon. Persistence led to patch gold - Bonaparte's Gull! Appears to be the 1st for the reserve. #patchbirding #ukbirding #hantsbirds
The latest sightings for May are now on the HOS website
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Hi Chris, yes it is - during the summer large numbers of Med Gulls come inland to feed over farmland and downland sites. The peak is usually in mid to late June. Three figure counts are not uncommon
Adult ringed plover, ringed on the 16/05/2024, and back in the nesting enclosure this year
A ringed plover nest on bare shingle
An incubating bird, nestled down on its eggs
Ringed Plover R//WW ringed on the 16/05/2025 last year in the same nesting enclosure
It’s looking good this year for Ringed Plovers on Hayling Is in our enclosure. We’ve now found 5 nests and yesterday had our first chicks, the earliest by about 3 weeks since we started the project. Fingers crossed they’ll fledge!! @rspb.bsky.social @wordsfromwez.bsky.social @btoengland.bsky.social
Fantastic new tower at HIWWT Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve to encourage nesting #swifts and house martins! 🙌 👏 💚
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Thankyou to the 430 people who attended our recent Members' Day. If you couldn't make it or want to relive the day, all of the talks are now available to watch on our website www.hos.org.uk/welcome-to-t...
A pre-dawn start this morning for the 1st day of the @hosbirding.bsky.social New Forest breeding wader survey. A Curlew on territory was the prize for the early alarm. The supporting cast included Redstart, Cuckoo & Tree Pipt NFY plus Woodlark, Raven & 3 spp of woodpecker.
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Image of a Woodlark on the ground alongside the wording: Heathland Birds Survey. www.bto.org/heathland-birds-survey. BTO logo sits top right of image. Image credit reads: Woodlark © Liz Cutting/BTO
1/ Can you help us survey Woodlark for our Heathland Birds survey? Monitoring has started for this species, so visit our website to sign up. ➡️ www.bto.org/heathland-birds-survey #Ornithology #UKBirding
Point blank views of this Spotshank and Greenshank duo at Keyhaven on Monday @hosbirding.bsky.social #ukbirding #patchbirding #hantsbirds
Our AGM and Members' Day will be taking place this Saturday, 29 March, at St Swithun's School, Winchester. Great variety of talks including on Woodlarks, Roseate Tern breeding and an update on White-tailed Eagles. Free for members, £5 non-members. No need to pre-book
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