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Same arrangements as last week. We will focus on recording and tidying up so garden tools shouldn’t be needed.

We will be working at the ruined cottage at Mottistone.  Meet at 9.30 in the car park next to Mottistone Manor. Anyone wanting a lift to the cottage should meet in the Strawberry Lane car park at 9.30. Please bring any of the following if you have them:  secateurs, gardening gloves, t

The Forthcoming Meetings page has been updated with the  Autumn/Winter programme, September 2023 to February 2024.

Meet on Castle Hill at 9.30 or soon after. We will continue with the geophysics with a small team and, if we have sufficient numbers, the second activity will be a short walk along the Greensand ridge to survey and photograph one or more barrows.

Field walking at Mottistone. Meet at 9.30 in the National Trust car park by Mottistone Manor. We will walk along a rough track to the field.

Eight members met at Blackgang viewpoint car park for a walk led by Jim Baldwin. An overcast start, plus a forecast of heavy rain later in the morning, along with a strong south-westerly wind no doubt deterred some members from attending while the passerines mainly stayed hunkered dow

Fourteen members of IWNHAS and the Facebook social media group Wight Swifts met for an evening Swift walk, coinciding with the start of National Swift Awareness Week, jointly led by Caroline Dudley and Jim Baldwin. Starting at Quay Street, Newport, the group observed a long establishe

Ten members met at the main car park at Parkhurst Forest for an evening walk. Although the prime site for Nightjar is now getting overgrown for this species, we were treated to some good views of at least four birds hunting for moths at around 10pm. They were typically using a dead tr

Saturday 6th May at Laundry Lane and Sunday 11th June at Mottistone Down Unfortunately, both of the walks were cancelled due to heavy rain and the forecast of further rain throughout the morning.