We are very honoured. To everyone in HOS who has helped us in any way in recent years, we thank you for making us the best that we can be.
18.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Marking the award, Juliet Vickery, Chief Executive of the BTO, particularly highlighted HOS’s work with young people, and its determination to increase female involvement alongside excellent fieldwork.
18.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
HOS team members have been in London this week to receive a national award recognising excellence in local ornithology. Every year the Marsh Charitable Trust and the British Trust for Ornithology select a local organisation to receive the distinction based on their achievements.
18.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Bonaparte's Gull (centre) accompanied by Black-headed Gulls
I was about to give up in the miserable weather on Saturday when I noticed an unusually large roost of gulls on Keyhaven Lagoon. Persistence led to patch gold - Bonaparte's Gull! Appears to be the 1st for the reserve. #patchbirding #ukbirding #hantsbirds
01.09.2025 16:33 — 👍 69 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The latest sightings for May are now on the HOS website
www.hos.org.uk/welcome-to-t...
11.06.2025 17:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hi Chris, yes it is - during the summer large numbers of Med Gulls come inland to feed over farmland and downland sites. The peak is usually in mid to late June. Three figure counts are not uncommon
11.06.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Adult ringed plover, ringed on the 16/05/2024, and back in the nesting enclosure this year
A ringed plover nest on bare shingle
An incubating bird, nestled down on its eggs
Ringed Plover R//WW ringed on the 16/05/2025 last year in the same nesting enclosure
It’s looking good this year for Ringed Plovers on Hayling Is in our enclosure. We’ve now found 5 nests and yesterday had our first chicks, the earliest by about 3 weeks since we started the project. Fingers crossed they’ll fledge!! @rspb.bsky.social @wordsfromwez.bsky.social @btoengland.bsky.social
02.05.2025 14:49 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Great Crested Grebe on a lake by Tom Streeter/BTO. Wording above reads: Ornithology Awards. Marsh Award for Ornithology. Marsh Award for Local Ornithology. Marsh Award for Young Ornithologist. The Bernard Tucker Medal. The Jubilee Medal.
Voting is open! 🎉Do you know an inspiring ornithologist or birder? Nominate them for a BTO or Marsh Award. 🐦 Check out the categories and nominate on our website ➡️ bit.ly/BTO_awards #Ornithology
02.05.2025 18:00 — 👍 22 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
YouTube video by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
New nesting tower at Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve
Fantastic new tower at HIWWT Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve to encourage nesting #swifts and house martins! 🙌 👏 💚
youtu.be/4FdHY0CziQQ
29.04.2025 18:44 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
A pre-dawn start this morning for the 1st day of the @hosbirding.bsky.social New Forest breeding wader survey. A Curlew on territory was the prize for the early alarm. The supporting cast included Redstart, Cuckoo & Tree Pipt NFY plus Woodlark, Raven & 3 spp of woodpecker.
#ukbirding
10.04.2025 09:20 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Image of a Woodlark on the ground alongside the wording: Heathland Birds Survey. www.bto.org/heathland-birds-survey. BTO logo sits top right of image. Image credit reads: Woodlark © Liz Cutting/BTO
1/ Can you help us survey Woodlark for our Heathland Birds survey? Monitoring has started for this species, so visit our website to sign up. ➡️ www.bto.org/heathland-birds-survey #Ornithology #UKBirding
17.02.2025 16:59 — 👍 37 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 5
Members' Day 2025 - Hampshire Ornithological Society
HOS Members’ Day 2025 will be held at St Swithun’s School, Winchester SO21 1HA, on Saturday March 29th. It includes the HOS AGM – details of which can be downloaded here. Admission is free for HOS mem...
Our AGM and Members' Day will be taking place this Saturday, 29 March, at St Swithun's School, Winchester. Great variety of talks including on Woodlarks, Roseate Tern breeding and an update on White-tailed Eagles. Free for members, £5 non-members. No need to pre-book
www.hos.org.uk/welcome-to-t...
25.03.2025 21:08 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
The Local Environmental Records Centre for Hampshire.
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Anything but Mike. Poole-based, retired from the NHS, with birdy, movie, music and politics interests 🏳️🌈🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️. Ex-Labour now Green. Ex-union rep (Unite). PhD in neutron physics.
Full bird list on eBird.com
Films: https://boxd.it/mBT
Like to watch birds but also keen on butterflies and moths . Volunteer around my local area.
BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
CEO of @SussexWildlife, President @SussexOrnitholo, trustee South Georgia Heritage Trust and Enovert Community Trust. Ex-RSPB and Birdwatch Ireland
Birder, Patch Watcher. Birds, Art, Music, not always in that order or priority. Hants UK.
gardener and lover of birds, moths, orchids, butterflies, dragonflies and well most wildlife tbh
Amateur field ornithologist/pro desk-based ornithologist. Fan of owls, waders and sewage farms
Interested in all things in the natural world, and worlds beyond
Birder, Moth'r , Interested in Natural History , jack of no trades and certainly master of none.
Wildlife photographer, moth-er and birder. Mainly focusing on moths in North Hampshire and occasionally elsewhere in the UK and Belgium. Always my own photographs except where stated.
28, from Hampshire, UK. I'm into watching and photographing birds, butterflies, flowers, landscapes and more, anything wildlife and outdoors really. All photos posted are mine apart from reposts.
Drawn to a patch and vis mig.
Yorkshire born, retired to Hampshire coast. Family, Birding / butterflying, RSPB volunteering and Pompey FC take up most of my time.
Birding noob (Worcestershire and Hampshire)
Birder from Hampshire. Enjoys seawatching.
