Camp Avalon - The review and planning for 8/9/10 July 2016

Camp Avalon - A camp for young birders and inner city teenagers

Young Birder birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig filling bird feeders for Camp Avalon
Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig

Wildlife sighted on Camp Avalon

As compiled by Thomas Weston - let me know if anything is missing

Young Birder birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig, Thomas Weston and Daniel Burrows, Camp Avalon
Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig

Birds

1. Mute swan

2. Greylag Goose

3. Canada Goose

4. Pochard

5. Tufted Duck

6. Mallard

7. Gadwall

8. Shoveler

9. Moorhen

10. Coot

11. Little Grebe

12. Great Crested Grebe

13. Cormorant

14. Grey Heron

15. Great White Egret

16. Little Egret

17. Bittern

18. Sparrowhawk

19. Kestrel

20. Buzzard

21. Marsh Harrier

22. Hobby

23. Black-tailed Godwit

24. Lapwing

25. Black-headed Gull

26. Herring Gull

27. Lesser Black-backed Gull

28. Common Tern

29. Wood Pigeon

30. Kingfisher

31. Nightjar

32. Cuckoo

33. Swift

34. Swallow

35. House Martin

36. Great Spotted Woodpecker

37. Pied Wagtail

38. Robin

39. Blackbird

40. Song Thrush

41. Dunnock

42. Great Tit 

43. Blue Tit

44. Long tailed Tit

45. Bearded Tit

46. Blackcap

47. Chiffchaff

48. Reed Warbler

49. Cetti’s Warbler

50. Whitethroat

51. Wren

52. Greenfinch

53. Chaffinch

54. Goldfinch

55. Magpie

56. Carrion Crow

57. Jackdaw

58. Starling

59. House sparrow

60. Linnet

61. Bull Finch

62. Reed Bunting

Other species

• Black-tailed Skimmer

• Four-spotted Chaser

• Emperor Dragonfly

• Blue-tailed Damselfly

• Common Blue Damselfly

• Small Tortoiseshell

• Red Admiral

• Speckled Wood

• Small White

• Large White

• Meadow Brown

• Common Blue

• Roe Deer

• Marsh Frog

• Hornet

• Tree Bee

• Badger

Camp Avalon - 8/9/10 July 2016

We learnt a lot from Camp Avalon 2015 that will make 2016 better and easier for the organisers.

Chris Craig, Young Birder birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig, Mike Bailey from CVRS, Camp Avalon
Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig

We realised that we need the following help:

Experienced people to put up and take down the tents;

Help ferrying inner city young people and a parent between Bristol and the camp site and then between sites;

Two people to cook and wash up;

People with experience of working with inner city/ethnic minority teenagers, as without that experience it was hard to fully engage them;

People to help throughout the sessions (hopefully a few NGB) and will need to ensure that they are CRB checked;

For 2016 we need to: 

Raise money to provide grants to lower income young people and to pay expenses to people who come to help;

Try and get donations of tents, sleeping bags, air mattresses and loans of cameras.

If you can help in any way, please get in touch campavalonuk@gmail.com.

About the Writer

Young Birder Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig on Scilly

Photograph taken by and copyright Chris Craig 

Mya-Rose Craig is a 12 year old young birder, conservationist, writer and speaker. She is based near Bristol and writes the successful Birdgirl Blog, with posts about birding and conservation from around the world. She is looking forward to going Mountain Gorilla Trekking in East Africa in the summer and watching Penguins in Antarctica in December 2015, which will be her 7th continent. She has recently been listed with the singer songwriter George Ezra and actress Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones as one of Bristol's most influential young people. Please like her Birdgirl Facebook Page and follow her on Birdgirl Twitter