We're delighted to share details of the meetings season (September 2024 - April 2025) for members to enjoy. This year's programme will be held as a hybrid (online/in-person) programme.
More information about each talk will be emailed to members around a week in advance of the event. To receive these emails (including Zoom joining instructions for online meetings), you must be signed up to the Branch News & Events - Talks & Workshops mailing list.
When:
7.30pm
Wed 18 Sep
Jonathan Meiburg – The Caracaras would like to meet you: introducing the world’s smartest and strangest birds of prey (online)
Thu 10 Oct
Martin Cook and David Law, Moray Bird Club – Spotlight on Speymouth
Wed 16 Oct
Dave Parish, NatureScot – Stepping up efforts to save Scotland’s critically endangered Chough (online)
Thu 14 Nov
Bob Swann – Shorebirds of the Moray Firth
Wed 20 Nov
Ian Thomson, RSPB – Ending raptor persecution on Scotland’s grouse moors? (online)
Thu 12 Dec
Anthony Wetherhill, BTO – Tracking Goosanders
Dates for January-April 2025 will be announced in due course.
Contact:
Chris Thomas, email
Venue for in-person meetings:
Elgin Library, Cooper Park, Elgin IV30 1HS (click here to view a map of the venue and surrounding area).
We hope that the branch provides an opportunity for those who share a common interest in birds to meet for regular social occasions. At our indoor meetings we usually have a speaker and the emphasis is on local birds and birding – with plenty of time to get to know those whose names we may recognise but faces we do not!
In addition to evening meetings between autumn and spring, we have regular outings through the year, and offer the opportunity for club members to get involved in some surveys of our local birds. All are welcome to attend these activities, including non-members of the Club. If you are not yet an SOC member and are interested in finding out more information about joining, please email us or visit our Join us page.
