We're delighted to share details of the meetings season (September 2024 - April 2025) for members to enjoy. The full list, which will be held as a hybrid (online/in-person) programme, will be added to the website in due course.

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:

7.30pm

Tue 10 Sep
Mike Thornton Spring Birding in Lesvos, Eastern Mediterranean

Wed 18 Sep
Jonathan Meiburg – The Caracaras would like to meet you: introducing the world’s smartest and strangest birds of prey (online)

Tue 8 Oct
Paul Hackett – An introduction to phonescoping

Wed 16 Oct
Dave Parish, NatureScot – Stepping up efforts to save Scotland’s critically endangered Chough (online)

Tue 12 Nov
Gavin Ross, NWCU – National Wildlife Crime Unit investigations

Wed 20 Nov
Ian Thomson, RSPB – Ending raptor persecution on Scotland’s grouse moors? (online)

Tue 3 Dec
Sarah Robinson The history of the Scottish Beaver reintroduction

Dates for January-April 2025 will be announced in due course.

Contact:

David Parmee, mobile 07769 704821

Venue for in-person meetings:

The Cornerstone Centre, St John's Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4BJ (click here for a map of the venue and surrounding area). *12 March meeting only venue: SOC, Waterston House, Aberlady, EH32 0PY.