UPDATE 22 April 2017
RSPB are now running a website page ‘National Nightingale Festival’ which includes EVENT LISTINGS – visit https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/events-dates-and-inspiration/events/national-nightingale-festival/
as the RSPB have the resources to do this I am no longer updating this page. You can contact Adrian Thomas at the RSPB here
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Update April 30 2016 – if you go out and hear a Nightingale why not do your own broadcast and give Nightingales a voice ! See how to blog
Update 30 April 2016 – note that the below events are for 2015. I’m sorry but I’ve not had time to update this but have left these listed as many events run every year. Check the sources, visit @NgaleNights and search tweets for reports or search twitter itself.
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All the below are events organised to try and hear singing Nightingales. Please check first with the organizers (not us) before setting out. Most require advance booking, prices vary, and most take place in the evening but the birds also sing in the day. Of course you can also find your own Nightingales – see Places.
Do you know about another Nightingale-related event … whether going to hear them or something else. ? Please let us know and we will try to post it here.
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Addition: Knepp Nightingale Safaris, Knepp rewilding project, Sussex, April 23 to May 21 RH13 8NN
18 April – Dawn Chorus RSPB Pulborough Brooks reserve, Sussex
19 April – Dawn Chorus Walk at Dinton Pastures with FoLL, Wokingham, Berks; FoLL
25 April – Fingringhoe Wick Reserve, Nightingale Walk Essex (families); Essex Wildlife Trust
26 April – Bough Beech Reservoir (morning walk), Kent; Kent Wildlife Trust
26 April – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
27 April – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
28 April – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
28 April – Glapthorn Cow Pastures, Guided Nightingale Walk Northants; Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire
29 April – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
29 April – Lackford Lakes Suffolk; Suffolk Wildlife Trust
29 April – Highnam Woods Glos, RSPB
30 April – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
1 – 4 May, Nightingale Festival, Pulborough Brooks reserve; RSPB
2 May – Nightingales on Blindley Heath, Pirbright, Surrey; Surrey Wildlife Trust
2 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
2 May – Lackford Lakes Suffolk; Suffolk Wildlife Trust
(! 3 May is International Dawn Chorus Day, wherever you are, check the website for more events)
3 May – Whisby Nature Park, Lincoln Early Nightingale Walk; Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
3 May – Lower Woods Dawn Chorus Walk, Wickwar, Glos; Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
3 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
4 May – Whisby Nature Park Evening Nightingale Walk; Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
4 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
5 May and 7 May – Paxton Pits Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire (St Neots) ; Huntingdonshire District Council and Friends of Paxton Pits
5 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
6 and 13 May – Bookham Commons, Surrey National Trust; more from National Trust on this site
6 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
6 May – Lackford Lakes, Suffolk; Suffolk Wildlife Trust
7 May – Danbury Commons and Blake’s Wood Nightingale walk and nature trail tour; National Trust
7 May An Evening With Nightingales – Woods Mill Reserve, Sussex; Sussex Wildlife Trust
7 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
8 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
9 May – Sutton Hoo Nightingales, Suffolk; National Trust
9 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
10 May – Linking the Landscape: Bird Walk at Crookham Common, Berks; Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust
10 May – Highnam Woods Dawn Chorus & Nightingales, Glos; RSPB
10 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
11 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
11 May – An Evening With Nightingales – Woods Mill Reserve, Sussex; Sussex Wildlife Trust
More from Sussex Wildlife Trust on this site (Henfield)
12 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
13 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
14 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
15 May – Bridge Wood, Orwell Country Park, Nightingale Walk (no need to book); Suffolk Wildlife Trust
16 May – Sutton Hoo Nightingales, Suffolk; National Trust
16 May – Fingringhoe Wick, Nightingale Walk Essex; Essex Wildlife Trust
23 May – Bookham Commons, RSPB group