GBC Events during 2026

January 2026

• Earlswood Lakes, Warwickshire
• RSPB Rainham Marshes, Essex
  
• Gowy Woodland Park, Bridge Trafford, Chester
  
• Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire
  
• Lee Valley Park, Essex / Hertfordshire
• RSPB Fairburn Ings, West Yorkshire
• Montrose Basin, Angus

February 2026

• RSPB Saltholme, Stockton-on-Tees and locality
• Midweek Morning Meander Manningtree and Mistley, Essex
• Walthamstow Wetlands LWT London
• Marshside / Hesketh Out Marsh, Merseyside​

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March 2026

• Run along the North Wales Coast weekend
• Lochore Meadows Country Park, Fife
• Highland Fling weekend, Aberdeenshire & Moray
• RSPB Middleton Lakes, Tamworth, Staffordshire
• Wishmore Bottom, Camberley, Surrey
• Wat Tyler & Vange Marsh Habitat. Basildon, Essex​                                

April 2026

• RSPB Rye Meads, Hertfordshire
• Upton Warren, Worcestershire, Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
• Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve, Kent
• North Wirral Coastal Park
• Pulborough Brooks RSPB, West Sussex
• Coulter Glen to Cowgill, South Lanarkshire
• Totteridge Valley, Barnet, North London

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  May 2026

• Swettenham Meadows, Cheshire
• RSPB Minsmere Reserve, Suffolk
• Dowles Brook in the Wyre Forest, Bewdley, Worcestershire
• Knepp Wildland, West Sussex
• North Cave Wetlands & area, East Yorkshire
• Fingringhoe Wick, Fingringhoe, Colchester, Essex (Nightingale Walk)
  
• Rye Harbour, East Sussex​​​

June 2026

• Fowlshaw Moss, Cumbria
• Shirley Heath & woodlands, Croydon, London
• Farmoor Reservoir, Oxfordshire
• RSPB Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire
• South Wales Weekend, Bannau Brycheiniog Gorllewin / Brecon Beacons West
• RSPB The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire​

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July 2026​

• Carron Valley Reservoir, Stirlingshire
• Langford Lowfields RSPB Reserve, Cottage 
  Lane, Collingham
  
• Ryton Wood, Warwickshire. Butterfly event
• Summer picnic, social & stroll. Cudmore Grove Country Park, East Mersea, Colchester, Essex

August 2026

• RSPB Blacktoft Sands, East Yorkshire
• Ythan Estuary and Blackdog, Aberdeenshire
• Loch of Strathbeg & nearby sites​​

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September 2026

• London Wetlands Centre WWT, Barnes
• Cissbury Ring Walk / Buffet Lunch, West Sussex
• Aberlady, East Lothian
• Anglia Water Birdwatching Centre, Egleton, Oakham, Rutland
• Hilbre Island, Wirral Peninsula​

October 2026

• Oare Marshes, Faversham, Kent
• Tittesworth Water, Meerbrook, Leek, Staffordshire
• Yarrow Valley Country Park, Lancashire
• Abberton Reservoir, Essex​

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November 2026

• RSPB burton Mere, Wirral, Cheshire
• West Hanningfield Reservoir, Essex
• Warnham Mill Pond, West Sussex
• Slimbridge WWT, Gloucestershire
• Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve, Renfrewshire
• Staines Reservoirs & Staines Moor, NW London​

December 2026

• WWT Martin Mere, Lancashire
• Midlands Christmas Social, Lunch, & Birding, WWT Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, Coventry
• Aberdeenshire coastal birding weekend​

Links

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Gay birding and similar organisations

• GBNA - Gay Bird Watchers North America.

• The GAGGLE- a lesbian and gay birders group in Greater Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Well worth visiting if you are a lesbian or gay birder in the US.
• Gay Outdoor Club - home page for the popular UK-based club. Covers interests in walking, mountaineering, rock climbing, cycling, swimming etc.

UK birding links

• TideTimes - You can view today's tide times quickly and easily.
• Wildsounds - a company run by our own Duncan Macdonald. Wildlife books, audio and multimedia guides.
• Surfbirds - a great magazine site for UK/US birding issues, including some great I.D. features.
• The Fat Birder - a great site with all kinds of information for all levels of birding ability.
• Birdguides - A commercial site which includes regular updates of rare bird news. 
• Rare Bird Alerts - A UK bird news service.

UK ornithological and nature conservation organisations

• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - protects birds and wildlife sites in the UK on behalf of more than 1 million members.
• British Trust for Ornithology - a research organisation which coordinates a number of major surveys, including Atlases, Breeding Bird Survey, Wetlands Bird Survey etc.
• Wader Quest - ambassadors for waders/shorebirds. The Gay Birders' Club is a founder club sponsor.
• Worldwide Fund for Nature Global Network - an excellent site for this organisation devoted to wildlife conservation across the world.
• The Wildlife Trusts' Partnership - the umbrella organisation for the local nature conservation trusts.

• Great Bustard Group - restoring the Great Bustard in the UK.

Birding links for North America

• American Birding Association Online - a large organisation for field birders in USA.
• Audubon Society - large membership organisation geared to conservation of natural ecosystems.
• Peterson on line - an online magazine for birders. Many popular articles about birds.
• The Virtual Birder - another internet magazine for birders.
• Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology - sound recordings galore, mainly for North American birds, but the labs collect wildlife recordings from across the world

Worldwide birding links

• ​Where do you want to go birding today ? - Probably the most comprehensive set of links for birding sites. I doubt there is anywhere in the world that has been missed out

Seabird sites

• Ocean Wanderers - Angus Wilson's identification resource. Includes taxonomic list for all the seabirds and marine mammals.
• Brian Patteson Pelagics - a fantastic site giving a lot of information about pelagic trips organised off North Carolina. Lots of pictures, including a new species for the North American list.
• Shearwater Journeys Home Page – Debi Love Shearwater's site for pelagic trips out of Monterey Bay, California. Anyone with a name like this has to be into seabirds, big time.

Elsewhere in the world

• Australian Birding - a great starting point for information about birding in Australia and a good set of antipodean links
• New Zealand Birds - and the same for New Zealand.