THE countdown has begun on the joint BTO/ Lincolnshire Bird Conference conference to be held at Whisby Nature Reserve, near Lincoln, on Saturday January 26.
The programme is as follows:
09:30 Delegate Registration
Chair: Phil Espin, BTO Regional Representative for Lincolnshire East and chair of Lincolnshire Bird Club
10:00 40 Years of Lincs Bird Club
Nicholas Watts, Vine House Farm
10:20 Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers
Andy Sims
10.40 Birds of Covenham Reservoir
John Clarkson, County Bird Recorder, Lincolnshire North
11.00 Tea, Coffee Break
11: 30 Protecting and Enhancing Wildlife for Eastern England
Mike Drew, Anglian Water
12: 00 Counting Wintering Waterbirds: The Wetland Bird Survey
Teresa Frost, BTO
12.30 Buffet Lunch
Chair: Mike Daly, BTO Regional Representative for Lincolnshire West
13.30 Planting Woodlands and Hedgerows for Birds
Hugh Dorrington, BTO Regional Representative Lincolnshire South
14:00 Lincs Grey Partridges
David Bird, Lincolnshire Grey Partridge Group
14.30 80 Years and Counting: The Nest Record Scheme
Carl Barimore, BTO
15.00 Farmland Bird Recovery
Kirsty Brannan
15.30 Raffle and Close
Tickets cost £15 and can be ordered online or by phone from the BTO.
More details at :
www.bto.org/lincolnshire19
