Raven culling
The BOC is concerned about reports of licensed culling of Ravens in our area. Natural England say that the newspaper reports were erroneous, that there… Read More
Give a Swift a home!
Can you help? We urgently need a few competent volunteers to fit Swift boxes. We would also like to work with roofing contractors or builders… Read More
Breeding Grebes Survey
Great Crested Grebes appear quite successful in Berkshire, but Little Grebes are in rapid decline. Help find out why by taking part in the BOC’s… Read More
Volunteers wanted – survey work on the Downs
The BOC’s conservation committee needs volunteers to survey curlews on the Downs.
Programme 2017-18
The new programme of indoor and outdoor events is now published, with all events listed up to July 2018. Indoor events include talks by some of… Read More
Bird flu 2016/7
Whilst there have not been a lot of wild birds found with the bird flu virus in the current (2016/7) winter, the cases have been… Read More
Theale Building Proposal – Thank You
Thank you to everyone who took the time and trouble to lodge objections to the proposed building plan around Theale Main Pit, whether by letter,… Read More
Photographic Competition 2016 – Results
As the judges said on the evening, the quality of the entries just keeps getting better and better, and certainly there were plenty of splendid… Read More
“Emptying the Skies” – Support LIPU
On Wednesday 20th January, Renton organized a screening of “Emptying the Skies” which exposes the wide scale killing of birds on migration through the Mediterranean,… Read More
BOC Recruitment Drive
The club has started a drive to recruit new members so we are asking existing BOC members to ‘bring a friend’ to BOC evening talks… Read More