We're delighted to share details of the meetings season (September 2023 - April 2024) for members to enjoy. This year's programme will be a held as a hybrid (online/in-person) programme.
More information about each meeting will be emailed to members around a week in advance of the event. To receive these emails (including Zoom joining instructions and workshop booking information, where applicable), you must be signed up to the Branch News & Events - Talks & Workshops mailing list.
When:
All of the online talks start at 7.30pm.
Some of the in-person meetings will be held in the morning, making it easier for members to attend when driving long distances on twisty country roads, often in bad winter weather:
- 11 April in-person meetings: evenings at 7.30pm
- 15 February and 14 March in-person meetings: mornings at 10.30am
Talks:
Thursday 15 February 2024
Stan da Prato – Warbler identification by sight and sound Workshop (in-person, NB 10.30am). Booking required - places limited
Stan da Prato will help you to identify the warbler species that breed in Scotland. We’ll listen to their songs and calls, and learn a little about how they live and their migrations.
Wednesday 21 February 2024
Ros Green, Claudia Tapia & speaker TBA – Tracking birds' movements (online). For further information, please click here.
Thursday 14 March 2024
David Pickett – A wilder, wetter Caerlaverock (in-person, NB 10.30am)
WWT Caerlaverock Site Manager David Pickett has been managing nature reserves and working in the countryside for 38 years, 26 of them in Scotland. How are the WWT developing the management of the reserve to increase wetlands and biodiversity - on large and small scales - in the face of a changing climate.
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Dr. Phil Atkinson, Dr. Jude Lane & speaker TBA (NatureScot) – Avian flu (online). For further information, please click here.
Thursday 11 April 2024
AGM and Simon Wotton/Dr. Leah Kelly (TBC) – AGM and Results of the 2023 Hen Harrier Survey (in-person)
Once widespread in the UK, the long-suffering Hen Harrier has fallen victim to habitat loss, land use change, and persecution. The sixth national Hen Harrier Survey is hot off the press, and our guest speaker consider the results. How is the species fairing in Scotland and the rest of the UK, and what has changed since the first survey of 1988-89?
Wednesday 17 April 2024
Helen Aiton, Michal Jezierski & Kevin and Mike Sinclair – SOC Endowment Fund Projects (online). For further information, please click here.
Contact:
Joan Howie
01644 420 280
Venue for indoor meetings:
Village Hall, Balmaclellan DG7 3QE (two miles east of New Galloway - click here for a map of the surrounding area)
