Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club

02/04/2026

Our next indoor Meeting is on 9th April at the Northern Rugby Club, Gosforth. Rob Jordan will present the results of the NTBC Photographic Competition. Doors open 1830, presentation begins 1915. Latest reports from the Recorder, Tim Dean. Coffee, tea & biscuits available and the Terrace Bar upstairs. Hon sec

04/03/2026

Our next Indoor Meeting is on Thurs 12 March, the speaker is Cain Scrimgeour on "Wild Ouseburn". Sense 2024 Wild Ouseburn has undertaken an urban rewilding project. Join Cain to discover the project and hear about some of the highlights – from a Yellow Browed Warbler to nesting sand martins to the use of acoustic monitoring.
PLUS - we are expecting to have our Annual Report BIRDS IN NORTHUMBRIA 2024 available that evening so please come along to pick your copy up (and as usual take a few to deliver). We are at Northern Rugby Club, McCracken Park, Gosforth, doors open 1830 for tea/coffee, talk starts 1915. Hon Sec

26/02/2026

The Eider Aware Project are seeking volunteers for Eider counts along the Northumberland coast in 2026.

11/01/2026

10/01/2026

Our next Indoor Meeting will be on Thursday 12th February at the Northern Rugby Club, McCracken Park, Gosforth. Club member and Recorder Tim Dean will be speaking and explaining why he rates Colombia as his best ever foreign birding destination. Doors open at 6-45, talk begins at 7-15. Tea coffee and biscuits available, and the Terrace Bar too. Non members welcome. Hon Sec

06/01/2026

Our next Indoor Meeting will be at our usual venue of Northern Rugby Club, Gosforth, on the 8th January 2026. Our guest speaker will be Club member Tim Daley on "Ducking and Diving - and a bit of Swanning around". He will be telling us about his work on looking at some of the duck populations in Northumberland (remember his work in the bulletins), plus an update on the Whooper Swans in the county with the International Swan Census coming up on the 17th January 2026.
Tea, coffee and biscuits available and a chance to socialise, and recent reports from the Recorder.

31/12/2025

Wishing our members and all birders visiting Northumberland a bird-filled 2026.
If you have outstanding records for 2025 please submit to our county recorder Tim Dean as soon as possible ([email protected]).
NTBC are supporting the International Swan Census in Jan - details on website.

12/12/2025

We took our Indoor Meeting programme ‘on the road’ last night with a visit to Morpeth Golf Club and were thoroughly entertained by Tom Cadwallender presenting the birds of his Alnmouth patch of the last 36 years to a full house.
Club Chairman Martin Davison was especially happy with three owl species on his return journey west!

03/12/2025

Next Thursday (11 Dec) our final Indoor Meeting of 2025 will be a one off at Morpeth Golf Club (NE61 2BT)as we rotate venues around the county and will be a lively pre-Xmas affair with a talk from the legendary Tom Cadwallender on ‘Birds of Greater Alnmouth’. All welcome! 19:00 for a 19:15 start.

13/11/2025

Our speaker tonight at our usual venue is Nick Whitehouse, his subject will be "Spurn Bird Observatory". All welcome, tea, coffee and biscuits available and the Terrace Bar too.
Please note the change of venue for the meeting on 11th December to Morpeth Golf Clubhouse, Loansdean, Morpeth NE61 2BT.

15/09/2025

We had an interesting and engaging start to our annual Indoor Meeting Programme last week, our guest speaker Javier Caletrio author of the Low Carbon Birding book attended and delivered a detailed talk that covered the early years of his birding and the genesis of his ideas surrounding birding and climate change along with a deep dive into some of the science behind climate change and what Low Carbon Birding means for us as individuals and actions we can all take. A lively discussion post-talk with many questions from the floor was testament to the interest generated.

23/07/2025

The Indoor Meetings programme for 2025/26 begins on Thursday 11th September at our usual venue, Northern Rugby Club, McCracken Park, Gosforth. The speaker will be Javier Calestro - "Low Carbon Birding". Hon Sec.