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Eleven members of IWNHAS joined Dave Fairlamb of Natural Links for an Ornithology Group outing to Mottistone Down on 15 September. Swallows and House Martins flew over the Jubilee car park as we assembled for the walk and small numbers of mainly Swallows continued to pass overhead fly

This Wednesday 18th September we will meet to continue work with the excavation on field 9994. There will be opportunities for excavation, finds processing, auger sampling, record note-taking, photography and discussion. Meet on the field any time after 9:30 am. We will work through t

This Wednesday 4th September we will meet at Brook Bay car park at 10:00 am. We will walk from the car park along the top of the cliff for a distance of about 1 mile east, past Sudmoor Point, to the south of the site of the building we found in field 9994. The cliff here is notable fo

This Wednesday 28th August we will meet at the Society HQ at Cowes at 10:00 am. We can continue sorting and identifying the finds from our field 9994 dig. It will also provide an opportunity to speculate on the structure and purpose of the building, and how it may be related to other

Seven members meet on a lovely sunny morning at High Down Chalk Pit car park for a walk in the area. We saw three species of raptors during the morning with an adult and plaintive juvenile flying around overhead in the car park. Whilst we were waiting for the meeting to begin a Peregr

Ten members meet on a lovely, warm morning for a walk in the park. July is a quiet month for seeing birds and this is what we found during the morning. In the car park we could hear Long Tailed Tits and Blue Tits flitting in amongst the trees, Herring Gulls were flying overhead and Wo

This week we will complete our assessment of the barrows on Mottistone Down. Meet at the Jubilee Carpark on Lynch Lane at the top of Strawberry Lane for a 10:00 am start. Location – gridref: SZ 42013 84540, what3words: intruding.originals.rice From the car park to the barrows is

Please note that the 20th August visit to Ryde cemetery has limited numbers. Please book via Mary Edmunds, john.mary.edmunds@gmail.com . There will be no charge, just a donation please

Bill Shepard has died peacefully in his sleep at his care home at the remarkable age of 103. Bill was well known to very many people as a botanist, Newport historian and all-round naturalist. There will be a small, private family service. Bill was the longest standing member of our So