General Discussion

To help protect the birds we all enjoy, we ask everyone to follow the West Midland Bird Club's Code of Conduct and Ethical Bird Photography Guidelines.

Exercise caution before sharing sightings of rare, persecuted, locally scarce birds and birds listed in Schedule 1 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act, especially during the breeding season.  Please never publicly share nest locations, as this information could unintentionally put birds at risk from disturbance or harm.  If you're ever unsure, please consult the County Bird Recorder.

To help safeguard these species, we ask that:

Thank you to all of the WMBC for expressing interest and showing support to the LadyBirders! Whenever we're out and about we often get approached by WMBC members asking how we're getting on so here's a round up of some of the things we go up to in May: We had 9 scheduled walks and we visited places such as Earlswood Lakes, RSPB Sandwell Valley, Wyre Forest, multiple trips to the wonderful Belvide reserve for photography workshops with fellow LadyBirder Kerry France and we also visited our other the fantastic Ladywalk and Blithfield reserves. We also met up with one another for ad-hoc walks in local areas and reserves then a handful of us joined the WMBC coach trips to Minsmere and Ynys-Hir!We had a really exciting opportunity to be joined by ITV at Ladywalk for an interview that was aired on the local news (https://www.itv.com/watch/news/women-only-birdwatching-group-surges-in-popularity/82lp288) , we had a stal…

Are the hides at Blithfield owned/maintained by the Club? If so, are there any work parties scheduled? Some of the hides are the worse for wear and need some tlc.

Dave Brown

I had a fantastic time at the WMBC open day yesterday and I had lots of lovely people expressing interest in how the LadyBirders group is getting on and showing us lots of kindness and support so I thought I'd put a post up to show a brief summary of some of the lovely walks and places we visited throughout April!

We had 5 scheduled walks and we visited places such as Brandon Marsh, Kingsbury Water Park and had multiple trips to the wonderful Belvide reserve for photography workshops with fellow LadyBirder, Kerry France. We also met up with one another for ad-hoc walks in local areas and reserves ☺️ A handful of us joined the WMBC coach trip to Ynys-Hir and we also joined for the first West Birmingham branches walk at Sandwell Valley!  

Here is just a small selection of photos that some of the LadyBirders took during…