Carsington Bird Club

Website Re-designed

Welcome to the new-look Carsington Bird Club website.

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The website has been completely re-written, for easier maintenance of posts and pages, together with the ability to pre-post updates and set them to appear at specific dates/times.

The new site continues to provide all those familiar features you like, such as the on-line sightings board and Roger Carrington’s excellent monthly round-up of bird sightings at the reservoir. It also has the ability to allow users to catch-up on any content missed at publication time, such as newsletters, features, etc.  If you missed a post, or would just like to look at previous postings, simply click on the Archives and review them month bv month.

The website has been written to accomodate a minimum screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels, however most modern PCs and laptops exceed this value by far. Anyone using this site with an 800×600 pixel screen will still be able to use it, but may have to scroll right-left for some of the content.

All your familiar links are there, as well as some new ones. there is also a “tag” list down on the right-hand-side. This allows users to find a page or pages which have a particular word or phrase, for example click on “Osprey” to locate some content containing that word. Alternatively enter your search criteria in the Search” box at the top of the screen. The post/pages retrieved are shown,  subject to a maximum of 5, to keep load-time to a minimum.

Selecting the “Categories” link on the right allows users to focus the content on a particular subject matter, such as Newsletters or News – however the default category for the homepage resets itself each time you visit.

Wherever you find yourself on the website, you can always return to “Home” by either clicking the “Home” button at the top, or by clicking the “Carsington Bird Club” header text.

Have a look round and if you have any questions please ask – we value your feedback.

Use the Contact Us page, or simply click here.


CBC – Outdoor Events Programme for 2011/12

 

Tuesday September 20th 2011 – Hognaston Village Hall from 7.30pm

‘The History of Birdwatching Part 2 – 1939 onwards’ by Peter Gibbon (the ‘long-awaited’ sequel !!)
Entrance £2 members and £2.50 non-members.

 

Tuesday 18 October 2011 – Hognaston Village Hall from 7.30pm

Joint Carsington Bird Club/Derbyshire Ornithological Society.
Graham Appleton, Director of Communications, BTO presents “Four years of Atlas Work”.

All welcome:  £1 members, £1.50 non-members, includes refreshments.

Further details of this and all indoor meetings and Field Trips on our website www.derbyshireos.org or emailp.bingham@clara.net


 

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Peak District Online

This website brings you information on everything to do with the Peak District and its surrounding areas.  This section of the website looks at Cycling facilities at Carsington Water. Click here for more.

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The Knockerdown Inn

The Nock-a-down as it was affectionately known, opened as a beer house in 1838. Its official name was the Greyhound, this dog being the family crest of the Gell family, who owned the property. In 1848 the Inn was granted a full license and has traded ever since.

For more information click here.

 

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Carsington Bike Ride

Carsington Water, at the heart of the route, was opened in 1992 and is one of the largest reservoirs in England. The visitor centre tells the story of the reservoir and the surrounding area in a display aimed largely at children who visit on school trips. The reservoir covers an area of 741 acres (300ha) and is just over 100ft (30m) at its deepest. Its location, high up above major river catchments and close to limestone uplands (although the site itself is on impermeable sandstones and shales), means that most of its water is pumped up from the River Derwent at Ambergate, which is over 6 miles (9.7km) away and is 430ft (131m) lower than the average water level in the reservoir. Click here for more details.

 

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