Category: Events

Come and meet Nick Baker at the NHBS Stand: Marquee 2, Stands 15, 33 and 34

NHBS Ambassador Nick Baker will be visiting the NHBS Stand on Saturday 20th August between 12pm and 1pm, and on Sunday 21st August between 10am and 11am.

Come and talk to Nick about the wonderful world of bugs, the secret life of a TV wildlife presenter, and just how good those chair hides really are! Nick will also be signing copies of his books, including the new Nick Baker’s Bug Book: Discover the World of the Mini-Beast! which will be available at the stand.

We look forward to seeing many of you at Rutland Water over the course of next weekend!

Find out who else will be signing their books with NHBS at Birdfair 2011 here.

NHBS would like to thank all our customers at Birdfair 2010 who helped make it a great escape from the office and a lot of fun!

And we would like to thank the organisers for giving us 1st Place in the Best Stand Awards – commercial (see picture below).

We enjoyed meeting you and we hope you enjoyed browsing our books and wildlife equipment – it was a busy and interesting weekend – made all the more interesting by some classic British weather! – and we hope most of you found what you were looking for.  Remember to get in touch if there’s anything you wanted that we were unable to bring with us…

Here are some pictures of NHBS at Birdfair 2010. Click on the images below to enlarge:

We still have a limited amount of signed copies of the following books available:

Field Guide to the Birds of Colombia by Miles McMullan, Thomas M. Donegan and Alsonso Quevedo

Atlas of Rare Birds by Dominic Couzens

RSPB Gardening for Wildlife by Adrian Thomas

Please specify that you would like a signed copy when you place your order so that we can let you know if they are still available, thanks.

We also received brand new copies of the new Helm Field Guide to the Birds of the Middle East by Richard Porter and Simon Aspinall which you can buy from NHBS today…

… and don’t forget Nils Van Duivendijk’s bestselling Advanced Bird ID Guide – no more signed copies available, unfortunately, but plenty in stock!

Thanks again and see you next year!

We are at the National Bat Conference this weekend at Reading University. There’s a packed programme:

Saturday 13th September
Assessing species diversity of bats in woodlands (David Hill, University of Sussex & Frank Greenaway)
Ideal homes for lesser horseshoe bats (Henry Schofield, Vincent Wildlife Trust)
A contractor’s view of mitigation for bats (David Mason, Skanska)
Autumn swarming and the implications for the restoration of underground sites (Jon Flanders, University of Bristol)
Building a future for bats (Amy Coyte, BCT)
Bats in Greece: past, present and future (Eleni Papadatou, University of Leeds)
Modelling the distribution of rare species: an example with barbastelles in Portugal (Hugo Rebelo, University of Bristol)
Plants that echo in the night: sensory ecology of bat pollination (Mark Holdereid, University of Bristol)
Dumfries and Galloway nightjar radio-tracking project (Stuart Spray, Stuart Spray Wildlife Consultancy)
Social calls in brown long-eared bats (Stephanie Murphy, University of Sussex)
Why bats should join CPRE (Tom Oliver, Campaign to Protect Rural England)
Annual General Meeting of the Bat Conservation Trust
Conference dinner and ceilidh
Sunday 14th September
Count Bat and engaging new groups in bat conservation (Dan Merrett, BCT)
The Isles of Scilly Bat Group – a voyage of discovery (Mike Gurr, Isles of Scilly Bat Group)
Bat rehabilitation – why bother? (Gail Armstrong, North Lancs Bat Group)
Latest developments in BCT conservation work and NBMP (Karen Haysom, BCT)
Bat activity patterns and habitat use in agricultural landscapes (Danielle Linton, WildCRU)
Bat conservation management in agri-environment schemes in Wales (Ann Humble, Welsh Assembly Government)

The Bat Conservation Trust publishes the Bat Surveys: Good Practice Guidelines. You can find out more about joining the Bat Conservation Trust on their website.

The equipment bestsellers at this year’s Birdfair were small items for entomology:

Bug Box Magnifying Pot – great for freshwater sampling, examining insects and other invertebrates.

Entomological Collecting Pots – for holding small invertebrates for examination, they also fit our Pooter so you can swap pots as you collect things. Sold as singles, or in packs of 5.

Pooter – for collecting small arthropods for identification and examination. An entomology essential!

Several authors signed copies of their books on our stand:

Simon Wood signing copies of the newly published Birds of Essex with Wildlife presenter Nigel Marven at the NHBS stand at the British Birdfair.Click here to browse the full range of books we took to the Birdfair.

We are preparing for the 2007 British Birdfair at Rutland Water. As always, we have a large range of books on ornithology, British wildlife, travel and conservation. Click here to browse the full range of books available on the NHBS stand. Our stand is numbers 15 & 38 in Marquee Two. We look forward to seeing you.