Links to Local Sites

Here are a few links to local Essex wildlife websites plus other sites of interest:

The website for the Friends of the Wick Country Park can be viewed by following the link below. If you have never visited this site there is a surprising amount of wildlife here in the middle of the Wick housing estate and is well worth a visit at any time.

Here is the Southend RSPB website, which contains some very useful information on local reserves and sightings. If you have been out and about in Essex and seen something interesting you can record it here. Also, contains details of events and field trips.

This is a new website (Jan 2010) for the River Crouch Conservation Trust who's aim is to clean up the river of rubbish and to bring the river back to a quality which will benefit all forms of wildlife, from water voles, fish to invertebrates and for the pleasure of the general public.

The Essex Birdwatching Society website contains details of local sightings over the previous month and their events and field trips.

Britain's premier site for "What's on" events in your area. Click link below and enter your town or a place you are visiting / on holiday to see what events are taking place in that area. They advertise our WWS meetings on this site!

Before you ask, this is not my own site!! Although it is not a local site it provides links to masses of worldwide birdwatching websites. If you are planning a trip abroad or elsewhere in the UK and need some birdwatching information this is the site to go to. Also contains loads of other info on the latest sighting and birding issues. Always look here before you go on holiday.

Greenman Bushcraft Ltd, PO Box 9137, Chelmsford, CM1 9FY, 08456 036 255

A local company teaching outdoor and conservation skills based in Chelmsford, often working in or around Wickford.

www.greenmanbushcraft.co.uk

11. John Muddeman - Iberian Wildlife Tours

Now for those of you looking to do some birding on your Spanish holidays I can thoroughly recommend a guided day with John Muddeman. John is from East Anglia but now lives in Madrid and is one of the best "bird finders" and all around naturalists I have met. You will see some spectacular wildlife and be entertained too - the only problem will be that no day will be long enough. Check out the links below:

http://www.iberianwildlife.com/central-spain/birdwatching-trips-central-spain.htm

http://www.iberianwildlife.com/blog/entry.aspx?ref=65

http://www.iberianwildlife.com/blog/entry.aspx?ref=66

12. Italian Wildlife Tours - Marco Valtriani

I don't know this chap but he is a freelance biologist who works as nature-birding guide in Italy. My experience of such guides is that while they seem expensive, they will show you all the sites you would never find yourself and you will see far more birds (especially the rarer species) than you would by trying to "do it yourself." If you are planning a trip to Italy - check out the links below:

http://www.walkinginetruria.com/

Email address - marco@walkinginetruria.com