Common Yellowthroat. Photo: Max Hellicar
Young Ambassadors
Meet our Young Ambassadors. These budding naturalists will use their powerful voices to help us engage with children and teenagers, sharing their passion for the natural world.
Young Nature Blog
In Search of a Richard's Pipit
By: Tommy Saunders
12 October 2018
Early morning on Saturday 15th September,I was hoping to go birding and saw that a Richard's Pipit had been reported at Pennington Marshes. I thought I might as well go down and have a look for it and maybe catch sight of a Spotted Crake.
I was …
eBird and Bird Track- Bringing ornithology into the 21st century
By: Amy Hall
14 September 2018
Ornithology is an ancient practise, reflecting a long held fascination in the avian aspect of our natural world. Look at early art from almost any culture, and there will be a depiction of a bird, or several. The winged wonders of the world, it is …
Fair Isle: Dream Isle
By: Elliot Montieth
11 September 2018
Fair Isle; it’s a small isolated island no more than three miles long and a mile wide situated in the North Sea just 24 miles south of mainland Shetland. For those reading this who are Birders then this isle of legend needs no introduction, …
HOS Young Birders Camp 2018
By: Tommy Saunders
17 August 2018
This year was the first year that HOS, together with The Cameron Bespolka Trust, organised a wildlife and nature camp for young birders and naturalists in the New Forest. After three years of the BTO running their young birders camp up in Thetford, …
Cornell Trip Report
By: Elliot Montieth
1 August 2018
For the past 2 years now The Cameron Bespolka Trust has awarded a scholarship for one young British ornithologist to attend a young birders event at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York state. For the first time in 2016, Hampshire& …
