Dorset Bird Festival
(at RSPB Arne)
SEPTEMBER 2024

🗓️ Saturday 21st – Sunday 22nd September 2024

The RSPB at Arne is offering the chance for visitors to get to know more about the fascinating world of birds through a weekend of conservation talks, guided walks, bird-ringing demonstrations and binocular and scope sessions.

There’ll also be cider and gin-tasting and a chance to sample a range of delicious locally-sourced food including pies, pasties and sausage baps.

  • Entry: Normal admission applies / Free for RSPB members

Saturday 21st September

  • 8am – 10am: Bird-ringing demonstration (booking essential)
  • 10.30am: Birds of Arne talk, with RSPB senior site manager
  • 12pm – 2pm: Behind the Scenes guided walk
  • 12pm: The Poole Harbour Osprey Project talk, by Brittany Maxted
  • 1.30pm: Inspiring the Next Generation talk, with Mya Bambrick

Sunday 22nd September

  • 8am – 10am: Bird-ringing demonstration (booking essential)
  • 10am – 12pm: Behind the Scenes guided walk (booking essential)
  • 10.30am: Inspiring the Next Generation talk, by Mya Bambrick
  • 12pm: Wild Woodbury: 3 years of re-wilding talk, by Daisy Meadowcroft
  • 1.30pm: Isle of Wight White-Tailed Eagle Reintroduction Project. A talk by Imogen Lloyd
  • 3pm: Birds of Poole Harbour: Inspiring Hope for Nature talk, with Sam Ryde

Find out more and book onto individual events on the RSPB website: https://events.rspb.org.uk/events/83942