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This coming Saturday 6 October 2018 is Birdwatch Day throughout Europe; Luxembourg's leading nature and wild bird conservation organisation natur&emwelt is running a special event at the national conservation centre Biodiversum, located between Remerschen and Wintrange.

From 10:00 until late in the afternoon, there will be a wide range of walks, displays, stands, activities for children, an organic farmer's market and plenty to eat and drink.

Come and join in one or more of the events, especially the English-language walk, which will include a visit to the bird-ringing station, and the chance to see birds in the hand as well as through binoculars and spotting scopes. The programme of walks is as follows:

08:00 Specialist birders' walk

09:30 For families, in Luxembourgish
10:00 English language
14:30 German language
16:30 French language

In addition, there will be a walk in German, with German-language signing, at 14:00, and special guided tours for photographers at 09:00 and at 16:30 (the photographers' events are the only ones requiring advance booking).

Apart from the food and drink, all events are free of charge, as is admission to the Biodiversum visitor centre. Meeting point is the entrance to the Biodiversum visitor centre. Parking is plentiful. If you prefer to use public transport, your stop for the 185 bus is the old school in Remerschen ('Al Schoul'). Biodiversum is signposted from the Route du Vin just outside Remerschen. The address is 5, Bréicherwee, L-5441 Remerschen. Tel:236090-61-24

The picture of a Bee-eater at its nesthole - Bee-eaters are unlikely to be present on Birdwatch Day - is because the ornithological news item of the summer has been the first successful Bee-eater brood in Luxembourg since 2002, which was itself the first ever. A pair raised five young in the centre of the country, at an undisclosed site, in a riverbank.  Climate change and all that...

Venue: the national conservation centre Biodiversum, located between Remerschen and Wintrange

Organiser: natur&emwelt i

Price: n/a

Reservations: see above