Nick started birdwatching as a child in Dorset and has since travelled widely but his roots are still firmly in Dorset. He ran a YOC group (now known as the RSPB Young Explorers) in Poole for 10 years with Jackie including taking a group of teenagers to Portugal on a Conservation Holiday for the RSPB. He is one of the regular leaders on the RSPB Birdboats round Poole Harbour. Nick has also been very involved with the Dorset Bird Club and is soon to take on a new role as Editor of their Newsletter.

Jackie began birdwatching over 25 years ago and ran a YOC group in Middlesex. After moving to Dorset in 1986 and meeting Nick, together they started up a YOC group in Poole, which they gave up when they moved to Fordingbridge, on the edge of the New Forest. Jackie is currently the Chairman of the Dorset Bird Club after two years as Editor of the Dorset Bird Report.

Together they have a wide interest in natural history but their main passion is birdwatching and passing on their knowledge, experience and enthusiasm to others. They also run adult education classes in birdwatching for Ringwood School and Poole Adult Education in the New Forest and Poole Harbour areas.

They have led many guided walks for the Poole & District RSPB Group and for Dorset Bird Club. Also organising and leading mini-breaks to birding hot spots around Britain.

With this experience, together with taking part in various bird census works for the RSPB and BTO, they have gained expert local knowledge of the Dorset, New Forest and West Hampshire and further afield. Their hobby has led to birding in Europe, North America, India and South Africa.