Marylebone Birdwatching Society

 

Indoor Meetings
September 2007 to June 2008

Our Indoor Meetings are on Fridays 7.15pm
(Doors open 7pm)
Non-Members £4 entry at the door. Members £2.
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coach outings
11th April “The Role of a Police Wildlife Crime Officer” Barry Kaufman-Wright
Barry comes from the Chilterns and took up his Police wildlife work after working in Jersey with Gerald Durrell. Now retired, he has time to talk about his former role.
9th May “The Languages of Birds” John Wyatt
A welcome return for John, who has worked with the BTO and for London Zoo, and co-authoring a bird sounds cassette series.
13th June
7pm walk from
Hampstead Heath
Railway Station
Our last "Indoor Meeting" is actually OUTDOORS - see Local Outings for an evening stroll on Hampstead Heath
Earlier this Season
SeptemberAward-winning photographer Bill Coster gave us an amazing digital audio visual presentation on
“South Georgia and Antarctica”.
October Intrepid explorer Glenda Law shared with us the “Beauty of the Swiss Alps” - the birds, flowers, animals and scenery of this mountainous region.
Thursday
25th October
Springett Memorial Lecture at Burgh House, New End Square.
"Birds and Climate Change" - Dr Dave Leech, head of the Nest Record Scheme at the BTO and deeply involved in studies of the way climate change affects birds.
November Many of us were inspired to visit “Scotland – The Wilderness on Your Doorstep” as a result of Ian Rowlands talk and wonderful pictures.
January Steve Carter showed us his slides of wildlife and scenery in “A Portugese village and a colony” before we held our AGM.
February Brian Barton and Clive Banks took us to southern India. They had given us a wonderful sound/vision talk two years earlier on the Natural History of Grand Union Canal nr Aylesbury and they didn’t disappoint with this new double-act.
March “Operation Osprey” with Ralph and Brenda Todd, was an update of a talk given 26 years ago!! Having taken us subsequently to Kenya, Iceland and the Pyrenees, the Falklands, the Galapagos and wintering in Africa, our old friends returned to give us a volunteer's-eye view of the history and developing story of the reintroduction of Ospreys to the British Isles.

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