Sunday 27 April  –  11:00am:     Pulborough Brooks RSPB Reserve    TQ062164
We hope to see and hear some early spring migrants, including nightingale.  Meet in the RSPB Reserve car park (Free parking; toilets).  Bring lunch and RSPB membership cards.

Sunday 18 May  -  11:00am:     Stodmarsh   TR221608
Another visit to this English Nature Reserve, situated in the lower regions of the north Kent plain within the Stour valley.  Hoped-for birds include bearded tit, Cetti’s warbler, swift, hobby and marsh harrier.
Directions: Take the A257 out of Canterbury.  After about 1½ miles take a left turn into a minor road to Stodmarsh.  In the village turn left up a track immediately beyond the Red Lion.  Meet in the car park (Free parking; toilets).  Bring lunch.

Friday 6 June – 8.30pm:   Darwell Wood    TQ696196
Our usual visit to look for nightjars, woodcocks, glow-worms etc.  We shall only go if the weather is appropriate.  Meet at the entrance to the wood.  (Free parking.  No toilets.)  (David Gasson will lead walks here on Fridays 30th May, 13, 20 & 27 June and 4th July all at 8pm. Members are welcome to join any of these walks.)
Directions: Take the B2096 from Battle, turn right at the crossroads at Darwell Hole and the car park is a few hundred yards on the right.

Sunday 15 June - 10.00am:   Old Lodge Nature Reserve, Ashdown Forest    TQ469306
With open vistas of heather and areas of pine woodland, this Local Nature Reserve set in the Ashdown Forest is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Protection Area.  Will we be lucky and see wood lark or Dartford warbler?  Last year we also saw spotted flycatcher, redstart and tree pipit.  Meet in the Nature Reserve Car Park on the B2026, 5km north of Maresfield and 5km south of Hartfield.

Saturday 12 July  -  2:00pm:   Malling Down    TQ434116
A walk around the Sussex Wildlife Trust Reserve to look for butterflies, flowers and birds. There are some steep slopes and fairly rough walking involved.  Meet in the layby on the B2192 about ½ mile west of the road to Glyndebourne.

Saturday 9 August - 2.00pm:  Pett Pools, Elms Farm & Queen’s Head   TQ900143
Meet at Pett Pools for our annual anniversary afternoon (our 35th) (Free parking. Toilets in Pett Level Village). We shall take the path beside the Royal Military Canal to Elms Farm, where we will visit the hide, before walking back to Pett Level.  We shall end the day with a meal at the Queen’s Head.  Anyone joining at the pub should aim to get there at about 6.30pm.

Sunday 7 September – 11.00am:    Oare Marshes     TR012645
We hope to see an excellent variety of waders here.  The possibilities include green, wood, common & curlew sandpiper, greenshank, snipe, golden plover, black-tailed godwit, ruff and whimbrel.
Suggested route: After Ashford take A251 which crosses M2 and joins A2, where turn left and, after a mile or so, turn right onto road signposted Oare.  In Oare turn into the Harty Ferry Road at Three Mariners pub.  Continue to end of road.  Bring lunch. No toilets. (For toilets - after left onto A2 turn immediately right into Faversham, follow road to left then right. Immediately after going under railway bridge follow car park signs on left.  Rejoin A2.)

Sunday 19 October – 10:00am:     Birling Gap    TV555959
Meet in the car park at Birling Gap.  (NT car park which may charge non-members;  toilets.)  We should see lots of hirundines and, hopefully, peregrine.  Bring lunch as, weather permitting, we shall visit another site in the afternoon.