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Our annual Wood Calamint working party will take place on Sunday 12th February at 10.00 hrs. Please come along if you are able to give a hand for a couple of hours clearing the bank in Rowridge Lane, the only place in this country where wood calamint grows. It worth bringing gloves an

Meet at 10am at Mottistone Manor car park to walk up to Longstone cottage and Castle Hill for survey planning.

Just 3 brave soles meet at the car park on a very wet morning. We decided on a quick visit to the field overlooking Causeway Lake before headed to the bird hide for shelter. We could see a few Teal, Wigeon, Mallard and Pintail, Oystercatcher, Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit from the field

No meeting this week.  Our next meeting will be the New Year lunch on Jan 4th, after which we will resume normal Wednesday meetings. Best wishes to you all for Christmas and the New Year.

Eight members met at Blackgang viewpoint car park for a walk led by Jim Baldwin. An overcast start with sunshine later in the morning although a brisk wind kept temperatures down. A Blackcap was heard in the car park before we set off along the path at Gore Cliff. A brief sea-watch at

Seventeen members joined Dave Fairlamb of Natural Links for an enjoyable morning’s birdwatching. Meeting at the start of the Yarmouth to Freshwater cycle track in Thorley Road, we immediately had signs of autumn with small groups of winter thrushes flying over, with at least 24 Redwin

This year’s New Year Plant Hunt will take place in Newport.

Sixteen members of IWNHAS joined Dave Fairlamb of Natural Links who led the walk on a lovely morning. Starting from the National Trust car park at the old chalk quarry near High Down, we walked along the main footpath on the northern slope of Tennyson Down and there were several Chiff

Walk to Longstone Cottage.  Meet at 10am in the National Trust car park in Mottistone, the one next to the manor.