Indoor meetings have resumed at Exeter Hall (details below), but some meetings will be held online using the Zoom video-conferencing system.
Attendance to Zoom meetings is limited to 100 on a first-come-first-served basis, and you must ensure that the membership secretary has your email address to that you can receive the link for each individual meeeting.
| 11/09/2024 (Wed) | Indoor meeting: Birds and Flowers By: Prof Jeff Ollerton |
| 15/09/2024 (Sun) | Outing to Farmoor Reservoir Walk led by Glen Pascoe around the reservoir and nature reserve |
| 09/10/2024 (Wed) | Indoor meeting: TALK CANCELLED The Darwin Tree of Life Project: An ambitious attempt to sequence the full genome of every British and Irish species'. IMPORTANT INFORMATION. PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED due to flood damage at Exeter Hall. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND |
| 12/10/2024 (Sat) | Outing to Tring Reservoirs (Hertfordshire) SATURDAY - Walk led by Glen Pascoe around the series of reservoirs and canal |
| 30/10/2024 (Wed) | Online meeting: Bernard Tucker Memorial Lecture: Honeyguide-Human Cooperation: The natural history of a human-bird mutualism By: Prof Claire Spottiswoode |
| 13/11/2024 (Wed) | Indoor meeting: Birdlife Preventing Extinctions Programme By; Dr Susan Waugh |
| 17/11/2024 (Sun) | Outing to Blenheim Park Walk led by Glen Pascoe using the public rights of way |
| 11/12/2024 (Wed) | Online meeting: The African Pygmy Falcon and its nesting associations with Sociable Weavers By: Dr Anthony Lowney |
| 15/12/2024 (Sun) | Outing to Eyebrook Reservoir (Rutland) Walk along the edge of reservoir stopping at various viewpoints |
| 08/01/2025 (Wed) | Online meeting: Birds and Pollution By: Dr Nina O'Hanlon |
| 19/01/2025 (Sun) | Online meeting: Outing to Dix Pit AFTERNOON walk and optional GULL ROOST count with Glen Pascoe |
| 12/02/2025 (Wed) | Online meeting: Protecting our Capercaillie By Carolyn Robertson |
| 23/02/2025 (Sun) | Outing to Middleton Lakes RSPB (Staffordshire) Walk through woodland and around lakes led by Glen Pascoe |
| 12/03/2025 (Wed) | Indoor meeting: Why Museums matter - the importance of bird collections in a changing world By: Prof Ken Norris |
| 23/03/2025 (Sun) | Outing to Port Meadow Walk led by Glen Pascoe around the flooded Meadow |
| 09/04/2025 (Wed) | Indoor meeting: Birds of the Mesozoic By: Dr Juan Benito Moreno |
| 19/04/2025 (Sat) | Outing to Keyhaven + Pennington (Hampshire) A Saturday morning around saltmarsh lagoons walk led by Glen Pascoe |
| 18/05/2025 (Sun) | Outing to RSPB Otmoor An early walk to hear Dawn Chorus led by Glen Pascoe |
| 15/06/2025 (Sun) | Outing to Wyre Forest (Worcestershire) Walk through ancient woodland led by Glen Pascoe |
| 13/07/2025 (Sun) | Birding by Bicycle A leisurely ride along the River Thames path from Oxford to Abingdon. |
| 09/08/2025 (Sat) | Outing to ... Full details to be confirmed |
Indoor meetings take place at Exeter Hall, Kidlington. Indoor meetings are free to members; non-members are invited to make a donation.
The start time is 7.45pm prompt and we finish at 10.00pm at the latest.
The Bernard Tucker Memorial Lecture is also held at Exeter Hall and admission is £2.00.
Full details will be published in OOS Bulletins and announced at preceding indoor meetings, or contact the OOS Field Trip Secretary. Unless otherwise stated, outdoor events are free of charge and are open to non-members.
If you use Apple Calendar or a similar application you can subscribe
to an automatically updating calendar of events by adding the URL
http://www.oos.org.uk/progics.php to your application.