NarVOS News
NarVOS News (February 2024)
Venue
The venue for NarVOS Indoor Meetings is the Assembly Rooms on the Market Place in Swaffham and the date for these meetings is the final Wednesday in each month [other than December when there is no Indoor Meeting].
Note: After a period in the alternative, Regency, room, NarVOS is back into the Ballroom which has been kitted out with the finest AV, sound and lights systems. The Iceni Management Team is to be praised for its speedy recovery of this all-important facility.
Easy access is available to the building, to all rooms and separate disabled toilets are provided.
Keep informed and keep informing NarVOS
Essential information is posted via email, with additional communications on this NarVOS website and the NarVOS Facebook pages. We will try to ensure that those who don’t have access to these facilities are kept updated by post.
NarVOS has a WhatsApp Site available only to Members. To join the NarVOS WhatsApp community please contact Alan Schpot on alan.schpot@talktalk.net
We continue to publish our monthly Newsletter, including Sightings, so if you have any information you’d like to pass on to fellow members, please send it to our new Newsletter Editor, John Fuller on johnfuller.narvos@gmail.com
Sightings should be entered via this Website.
Paul Fuller
Chair
Nar Valley Ornithological Society
NarVOS Meetings
Venue
Assembly Rooms, 1 Market Place, Swaffham, Norfolk PE37 7AB
Date and Time
Our meetings in the Assembly Rooms are:
7.30pm on the final WEDNESDAY of each month*
Health and safety matters are of paramount importance both to the Partnership and to NarVOS. We rely on our members and guests to comply with any regulations or instructions in place during meetings.
Members attend free of charge but are asked to register at the door; visitors are also requested to register with name and contact details and are asked to contribute £4.00 per person.
Refreshments will be available at a nominal cost.
PARKING: Car parking is available across the town centre or at Theatre Street CP. In the evening there is no requirement to display a ticket.
*NOT in December
Website Updates
Sightings
NarVOS List - this is the all-time list of species for NarVOS since its inception in 1976. The list was updated at the end of 2023. To access the List (a PDF document), go to either the Sightings or Birding main tabs where you will find the link.
NarVOS 2023 List - the full list for 2023 can be accessed via the Sightings tab
NarVOS 2024 List - the cumulative list for the current year is regularly updated, access as above, via the Sightings tab.
Photographs
The Gallery on our Home page is being updated regularly. Our thanks go to those photographers who provide such an array of beautiful pictures.
More photographs - Please allow us to display your photographs on these pages. Email, please, to our Recorder at recorder@narvos.org.uk.
Project News
Swift Awareness Project
The report has been updated to include NarVOS aspirations for 2022.
Mediterranean Gulls Project
Ringing and monitoring project, updated (11.03.2021) to include revised numbers and sightings data