On 27th April 1947 the year’s first great tit egg in Oxford University’s Wytham Woods was counted. The hugely influential Wytham Great Tit Study is the longest continuous study of an individually marked animal population in the world. It plays a key role in scientist’s understanding of how populations change in response to the environment […]

It has become something of a tradition that at this point in the year Brian gives us the lowdown on his two very different reserves. One, a wooded slope on his doorstep in Derbyshire and the other a wetland area in Lincolnshire. We’ll learn of ‘his’ birds’ past year’s breeding attempts. This will be followed […]

Visiting us for Surrey, Dave is a member of the Wildlife recording society. He has travelled to Sweden, Hungary, Spain and Poland in pursuit of his craft over the past 40 years. His recordings tonight will predominantly feature birds of Britain and Europe, but with some rather unusual additions included.