SCOTTISH WILDLIFE TRUST: FIFE AND KINROSS MEMBERS CENTRE

PROGRAMME FOR AUTUMN/WINTER 2003/4

Donations of home baking and produce, books, plants, bric-a-brac, raffle prizes will be very welcome and can be brought on the day or given to Evie MacRae ( 01334 656025) or Jean Stewart (01334 475763). Please contact Evie or Jean if you are able to help on the morning. Please come along to support this fund raising event. You could combine it with a walk in the nearby woodland and enjoy the autumn colours.

See autumn arrival of migrating waders, led by Alison Irvine, Fife Ranger Service.

See Scottish Wildlife for details.

Volunteers to man stall welcome, phone Dorothy Macdonald 01383 414194

Presentations and discussion on past year’s SWT activities in NE Fife, including Lisa Schneidau from HQ on "Policies and Politics of SWT", Paul Blackburn on Tree Group, Alison Irvine on Fleecefaulds Wildflower Meadow and Tony Wilson, Fife Ranger Service, on the community involvement in Kennoway Den. Refreshments will be served.

Support SWT by helping at our stall (contact Janet Butler 01334 850521) and/or buying your Christmas cards, wrapping paper and small gifts here.

AGM followed by "Two Woods and a Pond", a talk by Brian and Barbara Ballinger, who bought two woods and a pond five years ago. The larger wood is in Easter Ross and is mainly birch and pine with areas of bog and heath. A smaller wood in N Fife is an old mixed plantation overlooking the Tay, and the pond is just north of Dundee by the Sidlaw Hills. Brian and Barbara have been studying the wildlife in these sites and managing the habitats for conservation.

Illustrated talk by Nick Mutch, retired architect and tutor at Kindrogan Field Centre for over 20 years, who has studied South African wildlife on two recent visits. Joint meeting with Scottish Ornithologists Club.

John Done, Carlingnose Management Committee and unofficial bird recorder for Carlingnose and Inverkeithing Bay. Joint meeting with the church Green Gang.

Illustrated talk by Ian Findlay, formerly Head of Conservation Operations, SWT, now Chief Officer of Paths for All Partnership.