Useful Links

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Avon and Somerset     Regional      National
 

Avon & Somerset

Birding Sites

• Blagdon Lake Birds
• Catcott Nature Reserves
• Chard Reservoir Birds
• Chew Valley Ringing Station
• Clevedon Birds
• CVL Birds (Chew Valley Lake)
• Greylake RSPB Reserve
• Ham Wall NNR
• Ham Wall RSPB Reserve
• Shapwick Heath NNR
• Shapwick Moor NNR
• Swell Wood RSPB Reserve
• West Sedgemoor RSPB Reserve
• Westhay Moor NNR
• Weston Birds & Moths
• WWT Steart Marshes

RSPB Groups

• Bath & District                             
• South Somerset                                                              

Other Wildlife Organisations

• Somerset Environmental Centre (SERC)              
• Somerset Wildlife Trust

Blogs & Photo Sites

• Avon Birds (bird sightings)
• Bird Girl (Mya-Rose Craig)
• Carl Bovis Nature Photography
• Levels Birder (Jeff Hazell)
• Simon Thurgood Images
• The Somerset Birder (James Packer)
• Wildimaging (Tim Taylor)

BBC Weather

• Bridgwater
• Chard
• Langport
• Minehead
• Street
• Taunton
• Watchet
• Wiveliscombe
• Yeovil
• Coast and Inshore Waters

Tide Tables

BBC/UK Hydrographic Office                                                      

Other Sites

Avon & Somerset Police Wildlife Crime

Regional

Bristol

Bristol Ornithological Club

Cornwall

• Cornwall Birding (mainly sightings)
• Cornwall Birdwatching & Preservation Society

Devon

• Dawlish Warren Bird Sightings
• Devon Birds

Dorset

• Birds of Poole Harbour
• Christchurch Harbour Ornithological Group
• Dorset Bird Club
• Portland Bird Observatory
   

Gloucestershire

• Birds of South Gloucestershire
• Dean Birders  (Forest of Dean)
• Dursley Birdwatching & Preservation Society                                                              
• Gloucester Birder (Mike King)
• Severnside Birds
• Slimbridge Wetland Centre (WWT)

Wiltshire

Wiltshire Ornithological Society

National

• Barn Owl Trust
• Birders Against Wildlife Crime
• Birdforum (free discussion forum)
• Birding for All (for disabled birders)
• Birdwatchers' Code of Conduct
• British Bird List (BOU)
• British Bird Lovers (useful information on birding, especially for newcomers)
• British Birds Magazine
• British Birds Rarities Committee
• British Ornithologists Union (BOU)
• British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)
• Fatbirder (everything about birds & birding)
• Hawk & Owl Trust
• Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
• National Wildlife Crime Unit
• Raptor Rescue
• Rare Breeding Birds Panel
• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
• Surfbirds (Anglo-American, by birders for birders)
• Wildbirds and the Law (RSPB)
• Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT)