INDOOR MEETINGS
Our indoor meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month from September to May and are held at St Andrews Church Hall, Newmarket Street, Skipton BD23 2JE. starting at 1930.
There is ample free car parking in the main car park behind Skipton Town Hall to the north as well as the small car park to the east of the hall and on Newmarket Street itself. Car parking in front of St Andrew's Church Hall is limited and will be restricted to disabled persons, our speaker and those needing close access e.g. with boxes etc. If you need to drop someone off, please remove vehicles as quickly as possible. Please respect these requests.
You will be made very welcome whether or not you have been before. If it's your first meeting please introduce yourself to any one of the committee members. It's nice to see new faces and meet new friends!
Entrance Fees: Adults £3.00 Children 50p
Tea/coffee/soft drink and maybe a biscuit included at indoor meetings.
Below is a list of our meetings in the current programme.
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September 14, 2011 |
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David is the treasurer of the Macclesfield RSPB Local Group and received the RSPB President's Award in 2008. He is involved with the East Cheshire Barn Owl Group and has won various local and national wildlife photography competitions. He has visited Shetland on nine occasions between 1998 and 2011. This talk not only covers the wildlife including pictures of birds, flowers and mammals, but also the sights of Shetland and its people, starting on Fair Isle and finishing with a view of Out Stack, the most northerly part of Britain. |
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October 12, 2011 NB: RSPB Sales table available at this meeting by courtesy of Airedale and Bradford Local RSPB Group |
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At the heart of Green Spain there is a place that takes you back in time to a world before artificial fertilizers and modern farming. That place is the biologically diverse, scenically stunning Picos de Europa. To get there you cross the Whale and Dolphin-rich Bay of Biscay. This story is told by Jeff Clarke who has worked in the natural environment for over 25 years. These days he is a freelance ecologist and environmental educator, running courses and wildlife tours, several of them to the Picos. |
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November 9, 2011 NB: RSPB Sales table available at this meeting by courtesy of Airedale and Bradford Local RSPB Group |
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This talk aims to provide us with an overview of the main conservation issues associated with agriculture in the UK and what the RSPB is doing to address them. It will look specifically at farmland conservation and at a ground-breaking project that is bringing the farming community and conservation closer together. |
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December 14, 2011 |
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Stuart is a former employee of the RSPB, the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust and also the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, spanning 35 years in total. He is now proprietor of the Fylde based wildlife holiday company "Ribble Bird Tours" and has led tours to 40 countries on 6 continents. His talk covers not only well known sites such as Martin Mere and Leighton Moss but also a wealth of other excellent Lancashire birding locations from the Fylde coast estuaries to the mosses and moorlands of Bowland and beyond. |
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January 11, 2012 |
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Ian says he's been fortunate to work for the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority since 1996, firstly as Species Officer and since 1999 as Wildlife Conservation Officer. He is also a licensed ringer and the VC64 bird recorder for the Yorkshire Naturalists Union. His talk will highlight the importance of the Yorkshire Dales for a wide range of nationally important birds and will also discuss the management work that is being undertaken to conserve and protect some of these key upland species. |
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February 8, 2012 |
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Phil has been a tour leader for the Yeadon based "Bird Holidays" for 12 years and has been to many arctic regions including Greenland, Siberia, Alaska and even the North Pole. This talk follows the Barnacle Geese from the UK to Spitsbergen where they survive with predators like Arctic Fox and Polar Bear. Only the toughest birds survive and the birds we think of as living in the Arctic are maybe different to the ones here. |
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March 14, 2012 |
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This will be the fourth time Paul has visited our group. He is now a full time wildlife photographer and is a staff photographer for Natural England. His photographs have been published in BBC Wildlife Magazine, Bird Watch and Birdwatching and he writes regularly for "Derbyshire Life". In 2008 he was voted Wildlife Photographer of the year and in 2010 won the Man and Nature category in the European Wildlife Photographer of the year completion. "The Wood" takes a look into birds and animals that inhabit all types of woodland in the UK including both broadleaf and conifers. Paul thinks that woodland is our ancestral home, our natural habitat, yet we are only left with 9% woodland coverage. That he says is not natural but he still feels that woodlands have a bright future. |
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April 11, 2012 |
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John, who is a regular attendee at our meetings, grew up in Liverpool but moved south to work. On retirement he moved back north from where he has developed a great love of South America which he has visited seven times. This talk will describe a birding visit to the Pantanal in south-west Brazil, which is the largest wetland in the world. It will examine the unusual features that create this unique environment and the threat it faces from the increasing commercial pressures in the area. It will look at what it is like to visit the Pantanal and some of its teeming birds and wildlife. The talk will finish by visiting Iguaza Falls on the Brazilian/Argentinian border, one of the great falls of the world. |
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May 9, 2012 |
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This is a DVD transferred from the original 16 mm film taken in the 1960's. It was filmed by James Munroe with sound by John Kirby, the same team who made the film "Where the Curlew Calls" which thrilled us in 2009 with its slightly dated treatment but nonetheless relevant content. It shows Teesmouth before the large scale industrial development of today. It is, however, none the worse for that and shows some very interesting bird activities. A bit of nostalgia for those who knew Teesmouth of old and a good reminder to the rest of us that we don't know all there is to know about bird behaviour. |
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING |
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Non-members are welcome at all our events.
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