Alumni and guests are invited to join the Gloucestershire Cambridge Society for nightingales and singing in Highnam Woods.

Highnam Woods, an RSPB Reserve, is at the northwest edge of the nightingales’ range, and each year they come here to these Gloucestershire woods from their African wintering grounds to breed and raise their young. The males sing through the day and night. Guided by expert RSPB warden Hannah Booth, we shall (fingers crossed) have the pleasure of listening to these iconic birds as they strike up around sunset.

Please kit yourself out for the weather and possible mud underfoot on the woodland tracks. Sunset is 9 pm, which means we do spend part of the excursion in the dark on uneven ground.