Herts Bird Club

Registration is now open for the Herts Bird Challenge 2020 taking place on Saturday 25th April 2020.

There are two events on the day:

24 Hour County Bird Race for teams of 3 - 4

Site Challenge

Go to REGISTER NOW to find out more and to register.

Every year in Spring there is an optimal few weeks when our wintering birds still linger and

Thank you to everyone who took part in the Herts Christmas Bird Count, both out finding and counting birds and sending records to the website. Subject to any late additions or changes, 111 species were recorded from 25th to 31st December 2019, two more than the same period in 2018; a great effort. A full list a species recorded can be viewed here: Christmas Bird Count.

A special thanks to all those who went the 'extra mile' targeting species that, as the period progressed, hadn't yet been recorded. By close of play on 29th Dec the total had reached the same as 2018, 109, and with no additional species recorded on the 30th nor throughout much of the day on the 31st it looked like we were going to end on the same number. But then, at 3.06pm on 31st Dec, a tweet came through from Murray Orchard that he was out looking for one Herts resident species yet to be recorded.....

Read Murray's excellent account of what happened next below....

"As the year was drawing to a close I’d been trying to make the most of opportunities to catch up on a few birds I’d not seen in 2019. This involved a couple of trips to Kent at the expense of more local birding over the festive period, and helping with the Herts Christmas Bird Count. I had tried to add Hen Harrier to the list