Winter Talks
2019 - 2020 Winter Programme at Stirling Indoor Bowling Club, Stirling - 7.30 PM
Next talks
Tuesday 1 October 2019
TBA - Watch this space
Tuesday 5 November 2019
Golf Course Ecology
James Hutchinson, BIGGA (The Greenkeepers' Association)
followed by:
Sustainability in Golf
Carolyn Hedley, Scottish Golf
Tuesday 3 December 2019
Ancient Woodlands
Richard Thompson, Forestry Enterprise Scotland
Tuesday 7 January 2020
The Work of the Scottish Raptor Group
Duncan Orr-Ewing, Head of Species and Land Management, RSPB, Scotland
Tuesday 4th February 2020
Our Catchment-wide Work on the Allan Water
Speaker from The Forth Rivers Trust
Tuesday 3 March 2020
A Talk about Moths or Dragonflies - TBA
Scott Shanks, Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
Tuesday 7th April 2020
Short AGM at 7.15 p.m. followed at 7.30 p.m.by
SWT Stirling and Clacks SWT - Looking Back Over the Last 20 Years
Roy Sexton, retiring Chairman of SWT Stirling and Clacks
We meet in Stirling Indoor Bowling Club (SIBC) in Forth Street, Stirling, FK8 1UE. This is a large grey building with a big car park behind and to the side. It is the next building along from the Ten Pin Bowling Centre. The entrance is the same as for The Stirling Wood Centre, the Indoor Bowling Club being on your left. Talks will start at 7.30pm with suggested donations of £3 (students/unemployed £1) including tea and biscuits.
Our talks are open to all, whether or not you are a member of the SWT or from our area. They are normally held on the first Tuesday of the month at 7.30 p.m.
Please note that the AGM in April commences at 7.15 p.m. with the talk following at approximately 7.30 pm. FREE ENTRY.
Past talks 2018-2019
What do birds get up to? Technology, tags and trackers
Ben Darvill (BTO)
Tuesday 2nd October
Tag'n'Track: All you need to know about Lesser Black-backed Gulls
Hayley Douglas (Tag 'n' track development officer)
Tuesday 6th November
The Flora of Central Scotland - 50 years of Change
Roy Sexton (SWT Stirling and Clacks) Combined meeting with Botanical Society of Scotland
Tuesday 4th December
Perspectives in Marine Conservation
Linda Rosborough (Chair of SWT)
Tuesday 8th January
Blood, Sweat and Deers
Lucy Webster (Wildlife DNA Unit at Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture)
Tuesday 5th February
Sir John Murray and Sir Wyville Thomson: Sons of the Forth and Leaders of the Great Challenger Expedition
Roy Sexton, Chairman, SWT Stirling and Clacks
Tuesday 5th March
Short AGM at 7.15 p.m. followed at 7.30 p.m.by
Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels
Mary-Anne Collis (Conservation Officer, SWT)
Tuesday 2nd April