Your leaders

GARY ELTON has served as warden of a local nature reserve on the outskirts of London, residing and birding in the capital for over 35 years, a former Herts Bird Club committee member and contributor to several birding publications. He now lives in Norfolk, playing an active part in birding there and is a trustee of a local conservation organisation, he is also a qualified ringer involved in running local constant effort ringing sites for the British Trust for Ornithology.

JACK FEARNSIDE is a co-editor of The Breeding birds of Hertfordshire and co-author of Birds at Tring Reservoirs. A former committee member of the Herts Bird Club, and a member of the Rare Birds Panel for the county, he is also involved in producing the Hertfordshire Bird Report. Jack is also a qualified ringer involved in running a local constant effort site and monitoring breeding birds on the site. Jack has extensive knowledge of birding in and around the London area and the south-east of England whatever the weather or season.