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Date |
Group |
Title/Topic |
Speaker(s) |
Location |
Notes |
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October
2023 |
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Mon. 2 |
SOC |
Two Decades of Local Patch Birding at Girdle
Ness |
Andrew Whitehouse |
Kings Zoology |
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Mon. 2 |
RSGS |
Through the Eyes of Ospreys |
Sarah Dench |
Kings Meston |
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Wed.4 |
CgmClub |
Lowest to Highest Point in USA |
Clive Rowland |
Queens X CC |
£4 |
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Thurs. 5 |
Cults HWC |
Climate Change in Scotland’s Mountains |
Mike Rivington |
Cults Kirk Centre |
£3 |
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Tues. 10 |
RSPB |
Cairngorms Connect Predators |
Kenny Kortland |
Kings Zoology |
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Thurs. 12 |
FCBG |
Delightful, De-lovely and Deranged |
Nancy Stevens |
Kings Zoology* |
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Wed. 18 |
SOC |
Bringing species back from the brink:
Capercaillie & Corn Bunting case studies |
Allan
Perkins, Carolyn Robertson & Dr.
Alex Ball |
Zoom |
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Thurs. 19 |
SWT |
Identifying Britain’s Ferns: First Steps and
Dips into the Difficult |
James Merryweather
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Zoom |
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Tues. 24 |
NTSADMC |
Iona: Columba’s Sacred Isle, by Bike |
Gordon Casely |
Ab’Shire CC |
£5 , 2pm |
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November
2023 |
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Thurs. 2 |
Cults HWC |
Mesolithic Deeside |
Ali Cameron |
Cults Kirk Centre |
£3 |
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Mon. 6 |
SOC |
Ring Ouzels |
Innes Sim |
Kings Zoology |
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Mon. 6 |
RSGS |
The Island Munros Triathlon |
Alex Moran |
Kings Meston |
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Thurs. 9 |
SWT |
Journey of the Cuckoo |
Steve Willis, BTO |
Online |
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Thurs. 9 |
FCBG |
Kyrgyzstan – in Search of Wild Tulips |
Frazer Henderson |
Kings Zoology* |
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Tues. 14 |
RSPB |
Raptors in NE Scotland, Past, Present and
Future |
Ian Francis |
Kings Zoology |
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Wed. 15 |
CgmClub |
Upper Dee Flood Plain Restoration (after
AGM) |
Stephen Addy |
Queens X CC |
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Wed. 22 |
NTSADMC |
Craigievar Castle and the Family Who Lived
There |
Jim Fiddes |
Ab’Shire CC |
£5 , 2pm |
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Fri24-Sun 26 |
SOC |
SOC Annual Conference Talks |
Various
|
Zoom |
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Thurs. 30 |
CHWC |
Scottish Wildcats |
Andy Hayes
|
Cults Kirk Centre |
£3 |
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December
2023 |
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Mon. 4 |
SOC |
Seabird Atlas |
Daisy Burnell |
Kings Zoology |
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Mon. 4 |
RSGS |
Scaling New Heights |
Anna Taylor |
Kings Meston |
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Wed. 6 |
CgmClub |
Trekking in Dolpo Nepal:
the Land of the Snow Leopard |
Linda di Maio |
Queens X CC |
£3 |
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Tues. 12 |
RSPB |
AGM + “My Big Birding Year” |
Rob Leslie |
Kings Zoology |
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Wed. 13 |
SOC |
Lead from Ammunition: a
Toxic Problem |
Prof. Debbie Pain |
Zoom |
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Thurs. 14 |
FCBG |
Looking at Lichens: an
Introduction to Lichens and Their Ecology |
Andrea Britton |
Kings Zoology* |
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January 2024 |
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Tues. 2 |
RSPB/SOC |
How Birds Evolved from Dinosaurs |
Prof. Steve Brusatte
|
Kings Zoology |
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Mon. 8 |
RSGS |
Cycling Every OS Map: in Numerical Order! |
Mark Wedgwood |
Kings Meston |
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Wed. 10 |
CgmClub |
TGO Challenge |
Sue Chalmers |
Queens X CC |
£3 |
|
Thurs. 11 |
CultsHWC |
The Glen Tanar
Ranger Service |
Eric Blair |
Cults Kirk Centre |
£3 |
|
Thurs. 11 |
FCBG |
The Tangled Bank: Landscape change and
Garden Atmosphere |
Harry Watkins |
Kings Zoology* |
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Tues. 16 |
NTSADMC |
Numismatics and the Coinage of Scotland |
Douglas R. H. Nicol |
Ab’Shire CC |
£5 , 2pm |
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Wed. 17 |
SOC |
The Great Auk Q&A |
Prof. Tim Birkhead
& Prof. Neil Metcalfe |
Zoom |
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Thurs. 18 |
SWT |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
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February
2024 |
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Thurs. 1 |
Cults HWC |
Blue Green Algae |
Linda Lawton |
Cults Kirk Centre |
£3 |
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Mon. 5 |
SOC |
Sustainable Moorland Management etc. in the
East Cairngorms |
Jos Milner |
Kings Zoology |
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Mon. 5 |
RSGS |
People: We All Have That Something Within |
Joe Bunyan |
Kings Meston |
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Wed. 7 |
CgmClub |
TBA |
TBA |
Queens X CC |
£3 |
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Thurs. 8 |
FCBG |
Plants and Castles of Transylvania |
Razvan Chisu |
Online only |
|
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Wed. 14 |
NTSADMC |
Cruising Alaskan Coasts |
Finlay McKichan |
Ab’Shire CC |
£5, 2pm |
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Thurs. 15 |
SWT |
Importance of Ocean Life on Earth |
Colin Moffat |
TBC |
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Wed. 21 |
SOC |
Tracking Birds’ Movements |
Ros Green & Claudia Tapia |
Zoom |
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March 2024 |
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Mon. 4 |
RSGS |
The Life Cycle: Adventure in the Andes |
Kate Rawles |
Kings Meston |
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Mon. 4 |
SOC |
Short Talks: Goshawks and Forestry;
Monitoring Breeding Waders using Audiomoth
and BirdNet; Waterfowl and Crassula |
SRUC MSc Students |
Zoom |
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Wed. 6 |
CgmClub |
Members’ Night (slides etc.) |
Club Members |
Queens X CC |
£3 |
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Thur. 7 |
Cults HWC |
STEM Women Leaders in the Antarctic |
Clare Bond |
Cults Kirk Centre |
£3 |
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Thurs. 14 |
FCBG |
Cluny after Arwen |
John Mattingly |
Kings Zoology* |
|
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Wed. 20 |
SOC |
Avian Flu |
Drs. Phil Atkinson & Jude Lane
& speaker TBA |
Zoom |
|
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Thurs. 21 |
NTSADMC |
AGM, plus Update of Ongoing Changes at Drum
Castle |
|
Ab’Shire CC |
£5 , 2pm |
|
Thurs. 21 |
SWT |
TBC |
TBC |
TBC |
|
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April 2024 |
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Thurs. 4 |
Cults HWC |
The River Dee Trust |
Keilidh Ewan |
Cults Kirk Centre |
£3 |
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Mon. 8 |
SOC |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
|
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Thurs. 11 |
FCBG |
The Rocky Road to Chelsea |
David Rankin |
Kings Zoology* |
|
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Wed. 17 |
SOC |
SOC Endowment Fund Projects |
H. Aiton, M. Jezierski, |
Zoom |
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Thurs. 18 |
SWT |
TBC |
TBC |
TBC |
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May 2024 |
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Thurs. 16 |
FCBG |
Impressionists in their Garden: Living Light
and Colour |
Caroline Holmes |
Kings Zoology* |
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All 7:30pm unless specified. Talks marked * are expected to be hybrid
Legend
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CgmClub |
social@cairngormclub.org.uk |
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Cults HWC |
cultshillwalking@outlook.com |
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FCBG |
friendsofcbgmembership@gmail.com |
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JMT |
John Muir Trust
(NE Scotland Local Group) |
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NEMT |
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NTSADMC |
judithfalconer@rocketmail.com |
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RSGS |
enquiries@rsgs.org |
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RSPB |
tonichilton@btinternet.com |
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SOC |
grampian.secretary@the-soc.org.uk |
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SWT |
committee@swtaberdeen.org.uk |
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