Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Local Group
Huntly Swift Group, by Cally Smith.
19:30-21:00, Thursday 16th January.
Third of our winter series of talks. Huntly Swift Group, by Cally Smith.
The Common Swift fills our summer skies with breath taking aerobatic displays, matched by no other bird.
Now in serious decline due to changes in urban building practices swift numbers have halved in the last 20 years and are now classified as endangered.
Please join Cally to find out more about this incredible summer visitor and how we can all help reverse its decline.
No Booking required. Please email
bookings@swtaberdeen.org.uk
All talks take place in the University of Aberdeen's Zoology Building, Tillydrone Avenue.
Further details contact: SWT Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire at:
bookings@swtaberdeen.org.uk
Guided outing to Marycoulter Woods.
10:30-14:30, Saturday 7th July.
The visit should be of broad interest: setting up a community woodland trust and aspirations for further improvements in biodiversity and for social and educational benefits. But there’s plenty of natural interest already and a geologist to answer any questions about the rock outcrops & land forms.
Meet at the forestry road access, Grid Ref. NJ 862 991. If coming from the South Deeside Rd, B9077 or Netherley Road, B979, drive south up the hill past the church to Kirkton of Maryculter. Just passed Oldman Rd on the right, take the next left turn. The meeting point is approx. 500 metres after the turn, passed the bridge over the Crynoch Burn on the right hand side. There is ample parking.
Booking required. Please email
bookings@swtaberdeen.org.uk
Further details contact: SWT Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire at:
bookings@swtaberdeen.org.uk
Welcome to the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Local Group of the
Scottish Wildlife Trust.
As a local branch, we organise a number of activities for members and the general public in the North East of Scotland.
In the Summer months, a number of outings. In the past these have included:
- Red Moss of Netherley.
- Glen Tanar Estate.
- An evening of Bats, Haddo House.
- Early Morning Red Squirel Watch.
In the winter months, a number of talks are given in Aberdeen University's School of Environmental and Biological Science (Formerly the Zoology Department). These have included:
- What makes our Citizen Science Buzz; photo submissions and online identification of our bumblebees.
- New Local Nature Conservation sites in Aberdeenshire.
- Pearls in Peril - securing the future of the freshwater pearl mussel.
- Wildlife surveying for everyone.
We're part of the Aberdeen Joint Winter Syllabus, who organise a wide range of events - please see
the syllabus programme for further information.
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