Meetings
Indoor meetings are held on the second Monday of the month starting at 7.30pm, at The Banbury Cricket Club, White Post Road, Bodicote OX15 4BN. View map
Directions to outdoor meetings and start times are pubished in the Newsletter and on this website.
9 April 2018 - Indoor Meeting
Wader Quest – Supporting Shorebird Conservation - Rick & Elis Simpson
Rick and Elis Simpson are a husband and wife team who dedicate their lives to promoting wader conservation. Rick is a lifelong birder, writer and artist and worked for some time as a bird guide in the UK, Spain and Brazil. Elis is a keen photographer whose main interest is birds and wildlife in general.
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Outdoor Meeting: on 11 June 2018 @ 7pm
Details of the venue will be published in the newsletter prior to the meeting. Read more ...
Outdoor Meeting: on 13 August 2018 @ 7pm
Bicester Wetland Reserve
Outdoor meetings start at 7pm so we can have as much daylight as possible. Please car share where possible as parking is sometimes a problem. Rain does not deter us from our outdoor meetings. It’s a great opportunity to meet other members and hopefully see a few birds.
The postcode for the Thames Water Site is OX25 2NY; the entrance to the reserve is immediately past the EXIT of the Bicester Avenue Retail Park/Garden Centre on the edge of Bicester just off the A41. Drive through the open gates of the Thames Water site for around 300 m and park on the left by the tower hide. Read more ...
10 September 2018 - Indoor Meeting
Silent Spring revisited - Conor Jameson
Conor last visited the BOS in May 2016 to talk about his book Looking for the Goshawk. This time Conor will talk about what inspired him to write his new book, and what he discovered when he looked into Rachel Carson's impact at the time of her era-defining book, and whether her warnings have been adequately heeded, acted upon, and remembered. Read more ...
8 October 2018 - Indoor Meeting
Marsh Tits: Ecology of a declining woodland bird (15 years of Marsh Tit and woodland studies) - Richard Broughton
Richard Broughton the Higher Scientific Officer within NERC's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford. He is an ecologist and GIS specialist with particular interests in landscape ecology and the behaviour and habitat selection of birds and mammals. Read more ...
12 November 2018 - Indoor Meeting
Five go to Taiwan!! - Colin Wilkinson
In autumn 2017 The Franklins, The Lewises and Colin spent two weeks travelling round this interesting and picturesque island just off mainland China to seek out the many and varied birds and other wildlife - not least the 27 endemic birds. Read more ...
10 December 2018 - Indoor Meeting
The AGM and Quiz.
Yellowhammer Survey 2018
The BOS is conducting a survey of Yellowhammers in the first 2 weeks of July 2018 to determine their population abundance, distribution and breeding status. All members and the general public are invited to participate. Read more ...
Random Square Survey: 24 or 25 November 2018
A survey where observers are each given a randomly selected 1km square and record all species and numbers of each for a minimum period of 2 hours between 9am and noon. Read more ...