Talks

Branch Talks

This season the meetings will, again, be a mix of SOC-wide online meetings and Clyde Branch in-person meetings.

Clyde branch in-person meetings are usually held on the first Monday of the month and are highlighted in green in the talks programme below. All meetings start at 7.30pm

The venue for the in-person meetings is: Garnethill Room, Renfield Centre, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JP [map]

Online meetings are held on zoom.

There is further information below for meetings at the Renfield Centre and for zoom instructions

Contact for any talks queries: Rebecca Dickson

Grey Heron © Rebecca Dickson

2023-24 Talks programme

Mon 2 Oct	Mark Newell – Isle of May Storm Petrels and recent seabird discoveries (joint with RSPB Glasgow Local Group, in-person*) More details
Wed 18 Oct	Dr Allan Perkins, Carolyn Robertson & Dr Alex Ball – Bringing species back from the brink: Capercaillie & Corn Bunting case studies (online). For further information, please click here.
Mon 6 Nov	Gull ID workshop (speaker TBA, in-person*)
Mon 4 Dec	Stan da Prato - Warblers (in-person*)
Wed 13 Dec	Professor Debbie Pain – Lead from ammunition: A toxic problem affecting birds and other animals (online). For further information, please click here.
Mon 8 Jan	John Simpson – Developing watchpoints for the Clyde area's most dynamic species (in-person*)
Wed 17 Jan	Q and A with Professor Tim Birkhead & Professor Neil Metcalfe – The Great Auk (online). For further information, please click here.
Mon 5 Feb	George Smith – Peregrines, PIT tags and papers (in-person*)
Wed 21 Feb	Ros Green, Claudia Tapia & Speaker TBA – Tracking bird’s movements (online)
Mon 4 Mar	Dave Clugston – Workshop: Getting started birdwatching (in-person*)
Wed 20 Mar	Dr Phil Atkinson, Dr Jude Lane & Speaker TBA (NatureScot) – Avian Flu (online)
Mon 1 Apr	AGM & talk from Iain Livingstone-Clyde Ringing Group Update (in-person*)
Wed 17 Apr	Helen Aiton & Michal Jezierski – SOC Endowment Fund Projects (online). For further information, please click here.

All meetings start at 7.30pm

Further Information

* In Person meeting venue
Our in-person talks take place in the Renfield St Stephen’s Centre. This is towards the Charing Cross end of Bath Street, close to the
King’s Theatre and Charing Cross railway station. Car parking should be available in the adjacent streets once the parking regulation hours have passed.

After some research, the branch committee chose the Renfield St Stephen’s Centre as our new venue. We will need to pay the commercial rate for the hire of the premises, and we will need to supply our own AV equipment. This unfortunately means that we will need to charge an attendance fee to cover the branch expenses. Based on the average number attending meetings at the old venue, it is proposed that we charge an entrance fee of £3. There will be no additional charge for the tea, coffee, and biscuits. The fee will be reduced to £1 for students and for others at the discretion of the committee. It would be very helpful if you could bring with you the exact amount of £3. We do not have any debit / credit card handling facility.

Online meetings:
For the meetings that are marked as "online" an invitation with a link to the Zoom meeting will be sent out a few days before the event via email. To receive this notice, please ensure that you are on the appropriate mailing list held by SOC HQ. If you are unsure, you can check your mailing list preferences by emailing Kathryn Cox or if you know you do not receive branch notices but would like to, you can sign up here (please note these will only be sent to SOC members).

Instructions on how to use Zoom.