Conserving British Owls – Ian McGuire

Title: Conserving British Owls – Ian McGuire
Location: Crown Room, Crown Centre, Devizes
Description: Ian, an owl conservationist, will offer a fascinating look at the owls of Britain, giving an insight into their lives, habitats and conservation.
Admission £2.00 to include refreshments
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2011-01-12

Raptor Camps of Malta and Sicily – Steve Dettmar

Title: Raptor Camps of Malta and Sicily – Steve Dettmar
Location: Crown Room, Crown Centre, Devizes
Description: Steve, a WOS member, has attended three Birdlife Malta and two Sicily Raptor Camps. The talk will illustrate what the camps are about and highlight the problems of illegal hunting.
Steve’s talk will be followed by the judging of WOS Annual Photographic Competition.
Admission £2.00 to include refreshments
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2010-12-16

Roof-nesting gulls in Wiltshire – Peter Rock

Title: Rood-nseting gulls in Wiltshire – Peter Rock
Location: Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes

Description: John Pollard Memorial Lecture
Peter has been studying Bristol’s roof-nesting gulls since 1980 and throughout this time has been involved in international gull research at a high level. For the last 15 years he has been the co-ordinator for the colour-marking of the large gulls for all of the Bird Ringing Schemes in Europe (Euring). He is the author of several scientific papers on the subject (including the Lesser Black-backed Gull pages in the Migration Atlas) and has acted as consultant to various authorities on roof-nesting gulls. WOS commissioned Peter’s surveys of roof-nesting gulls in Wiltshire in 2003, 2004 and 2009.
Admission £2.00 to include refreshments
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2010-11-17

RSPB Winterbourne Downs – the early years – Patrick Cashman

Title: Indoor Meeting: RSPB Winterbourne Downs – the early years – Patrick Cashman
Location: Crown Room, Crown Centre, Devizes
Description: Patrick, a WOS member & site manager at RSPB Winterbourne Downs, will detail why the RSPB bought a working farm in South Wiltshire, and will look at the progress and successes to date in establishing a new downland nature reserve.
Admission £2.00 to include refreshments
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2010-10-13

Tetrad Atlas Meeting

Title: Tetrad Atlas Meeting
Location: Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes, 23rd March
Description: OPEN MEETING TO REVIEW PROGRESS TOWARDS THE NEW WILTSHIRE TETRAD ATLAS

The meeting will begin with a review of progress so far on the atlas project, including a Power Point presentation showing some of the significant trends that have emerged after the third winter’s fieldwork, both nationally and at county level. We will also revisit the results from the first two breeding season’s surveys and highlight the areas we particularly need to focus on going into the third summer. This will be followed by a presentation by a member of the Wiltshire Tetrad Atlas planning group on the plans for the new county atlas.

If you have not previously been involved in the fieldwork for the atlas, this will be your opportunity to come along and see how we operate, what has been achieved so far and how you can play a part in this major new WOS project.

Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2010-03-23

13th January Indoor Meeting cancelled

We regret that, following fresh falls of snow and severe weather warnings for the south of England, we have decided to cancel the indoor meeting this evening on Conserving British Owls. Many apologies to all those who were hoping to attend.

CANCELLED

Title: CANCELLED
Location: Devizes Museum
Description: Conserving British Owls – talk by Ian McGuire
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Date: 2010-01-13

Executive Committee Meeting

Title: Executive Committee Meeting
Date: 2010-07-21

Executive Committee Meeting

Title: Executive Committee Meeting
Date: 2010-01-20

Ian Rowlands- Scotland – The wilderness on your doorstep

Title: Ian Rowlands – Scotland – The wilderness on your doorstep
Location: Wiltshire Heritage Museum, 41 Long Street, Devizes
Description: Speyside with its Caledonian pines, lochs, moors and Cairngorm mountains, home to Capercaillie, Golden Eagle, Crested Tit, Scottish Crossbill and many more. Then on to the coastline including the Moray Firth, the weed-strewn shores of the west coast and an island taster where seabirds, sea eagle and otters are the stars.
This is the John Pollard Memorial Lecture
Start Time: 19.30
Date: 2009-11-11

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