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Mike Ball gave an illustrated Zoom talk about his local patch in south-east Somerset.  This was a personal look at birding his Templecombe patch through the seasons, highlighting changes over the year and some of the more surprising species he has encountered close to home. 

Please note that it is an incomplete recording; the first circa 20 minutes were not recorded.

Link to the Mike Ball Illustrated Zoom Talk

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Somerset Ornithological Society Annual General Meeting held at Cheddon Fitzpaine Memorial Hall At 2pm on Saturday 15 November 2025.

Key documents related to the meeting:

Download the 2025 AGM meeting minutes

View the Treasurer’s Annual Report 2025

Read the Membership Report for 2025

Download the BTO report for 2025

2024 AGM - Minutes

2024 AGM - Agenda

2024 AGM and Members Day

2023 AGM - Minutes

2022 AGM - Minutes

2021 Agenda

2021 AGM - Minutes

2021 Financial Statement

2021 Elections

Somerset Birds 2021 will be sent out to paid up members in the next few weeks. So if you not yet paid your subscription, perhaps you should do so!
The annual subscription is £18.

The Society and BTO are carrying out a joint survey of Rookeries in the county between 1st March and 30th April.

Somerset is a well-wooded county with plenty of livestock farms, suggesting that Rooks should be a relatively common farmland bird in the county. During the Somerset Atlas of breeding and wintering birds 2007 – 2012, confirmed breeding records of Rooks were received from 53% of tetrads in the County.  However, since then records of rookeries reported in Somerset Birds are very few and far between. Are we failing to record most of our Rookeries, or have they simply vanished from the County?  We need to check, so here is the BTO Somerset & SOS Rookery Survey! 

For further details, go to https://somersetbirding.org.uk/surveys