slide show and for allowing the use of the facilities
at the Centre with acknowledgements also to the
London Borough of Newham.
Ron Allen
Birds heard or seen:
Crow Chiff chaff Pheasant
Jackdaw Willow warbler Mallard
Starling Garden warbler House sparrow
Jay, Magpie Black cap Linnet
Hawfinch Mistle thrush Spotted flycatcher
Greenfinch Song thrush House martin
Lesser redpoll Blackbird Swallow
Bullfinch Robin Swift
Yellowhammer Dunnock Wood pigeon
Tree sparrow Wren Turtle dove
Huthatch Cuckoo
Tree creeper Greater and Lesser spotted
Woodpeckers
Great, coal, blue and marsh tits
Green woodpecker
Total: 41
25-28th May 1973 BRISTOL Geology Group Weekend
For this year's Geology Group Weekend, new
ground was broken, especially by those with geological
hammers! The venue was Bristol and the surrounding
district. Nearly thirty members came on the trip
and were housed in the Hotel Clifton, a comfortable
place not far from the famouse bridge, over which
we both walked and drove in due course.
Saturday's outing started off at Aust Cliff,
just under the Somerset end of the Severn Road Bridge,
and here we found exposures of the Triassic beds,
Rheatic and Lias, and thick strata of Keuper marls
both red and green. Soon specimens of the rocks and
their mineral and fossil contents were being taken,
and there was much discussion of the geology.
After lunch, taken in the sunshine by the road-
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