Calling Herts Larophiles! Survey volunteers needed. Just 3 counts 2024/5. 1st count c. Jan 21st 2024. Principle sites: Tring Resvrs, Hilfield/Aldenham Resvrs and Lea & Colne Valleys. Please see link & sign up to help. Local teams will be organised. Herts Bird News Lee Valley Park

The official results for the UK and England Wild Bird Indicators have been released Find out what's happening in our latest blog by Fiona Burns community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scie… #Ornithology 📷Mark Eaton

We've just launched our Winter 2023 Surveys & Monitoring Appeal, to help support and sustain our core work. For more information and to make a donation, please visit: bto.org/surveys-appeal… #ornithology

Please consider taking on a stretch of waterway in Herts for this very rewarding survey. Read the thread for more info and follow the link. There are vacant sites near Tring, Hemel Hempstead, Rickmansworth and Cheshunt.

Our third #ExploreYourArchive theme is Big. The biggest collection in the BTO Archives is the maps produced during the Common Birds Census (1962-2000). There are roughly 250,000 maps from nearly 1,500 sites! These show important changes in UK bird populations. #EYABig

Our latest observations blog post is available now! Check it out at rmrg.org.uk/observations/ RSPB Rye Meads, Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust, BTO Hertfordshire, Herts Bird News, HNHS & Herts Bird Club

Great paper by Ken & Linda studying the movements of Herts Green Sandpipers and where they breed. Our wintering birds represent quite an international gathering!

Team Hilfield Reservoir (Herts) completed WinGS count today, just ahead of Isha!😬 Strong wind not too bad and rain started just as we got back to cars! 1000’s of mostly BHG and HG. Await final counts from Team Leader Tony Blake Thanks to all & Tony for organising👏 #WinGS BTO

Date for the diary! Hertfordshire Bird Conference, 2 March, 2pm-5.30pm. Tickets on the door. hnhs.org/meeting/hertfo… BTO Hertfordshire HNHS & Herts Bird Club Herts Bird News #hertsbirds

Brilliant talk by James Heywood on Breeding Bird Surveys past, present and future. Huge thanks to all the amazing volunteers over the last 30 years, the fantastic Regional Network and the previous BBS Organisers for making BBS such a successful monitoring scheme. #BTOConf24

2/2. Delighted to be out today with Rye Meads Ringing Group ringing Jack Snipe (under BTO licence), still thrilling after all these years……..

From exotic beginnings on Maui with Wedge-tailed Shearwater, to Manx Shearwater on Lundy, & now Black-headed Gulls at an inland site in Herts, Jess has discovered seabird monitoring & there is no turning back! #MondayMotivation Discover more at bto.org/smp

Please help Graham and others with this important effort to monitor the status of Herts Swifts - and keep submitting complete BirdTrack lists too in order to monitor occurrence patterns. Some interesting comparisons here for Herts, Cambs, Essex & Kent for week 22.

Please help with this simple survey if you can. Only requires a 15 min period of garden observation each week. Important to monitor the spread and effect of this disease on our beloved Blackbirds, so please sign up!

Well done Graham for your part is pushing for these requirements in the StA local plans👏 Let’s hope they’re fully adopted for the sake of our Swifts👍

A big thank you to the Rye Meads Ringing Group who showed us another 10 Jack Snipe yesterday afternoon. They spoke about how not much is known their migration so hopefully ringing will help us learn. Once released one stuck around. Can you spot it? Let us know in the comments. #hertsbirds

Lots of Colne Valley lakes not yet covered if anyone would like to check for or count any roosting gulls. Please register as below and request site from the map. Counts can be made a week either side of Jan 19th (12th - 26th). Thanks, and Happy New Year!

Great to see Rye Meads featured with lovely account of Com Tern & B/H Gull breeding histories at the site. It would be great if regular observers at our other gull/tern sites (Stockers, Maple Lodge, Amwell and Hilfield) could sign up to SMP and submit data🙏 Thanks😊 @smp_seabird

Would you like to learn more about bird ringing and talk to the team who have been doing it at Rye Meads for over 50 years? We have a couple of tickets left for our ringing event with Rye Meads Ringing Group. For more information and tickets, follow the link below: events.rspb.org.uk/events/108035?…

BTO Ringing Report for 2024 now on-line. New longevity record for Green Sandpiper. Oystercatcher is still the 'grand-daddy'. Updated WaderTales blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/wad… Link to BTO report: bto.org/get-involved/v… #ornithology