Nature
in Shetland is now on Facebook and you don't need to be a Facebook member
to view the page.
Click here
or on the facebook symbol at the top of the page. Please click like if
you are a Facebook member.
Our Facebook page is updated
more regularly and is more interactive, but we will continue to update
these pages, which will be more detailed and include more photos.
Hopefully the two sets of pages will complement each other nicely.
Our aims are simple and twofold
- to share information on the natural history of Shetland and ensure
that records are passed on to the appropriate body so they are retained
for posterity.
New
partnership with SBRC We are delighted
to announce that Nature in Shetland (NiS) has now entered into a new
partnership with the Shetland Biological Records Centre (SBRC),
particularly on our new Facebook pages..
When NiS was originally set up
in 1996 (originally named the Shetland Wildlife Pages) it was intended
as a way of using the newly-expanding internet as a way of sharing and
collecting news. Records collected have always been passed on to other
organisations e.g. all bird records have been passed on to the Shetland
Bird Club for use in the Shetland Bird Report. Most other records are
currently passed on to SBRC, so the partnership is a logical step
forward.
And as well as recording and
sharing sightings we will do our best, with the help of our colleagues
at SBRC, to answer your identification queries. For more about the SBRC
see their website at
http://www.shetlandbrc.co.uk.
Shetland Bird Club
AGM Saturday 18th February 2012 at 7pm,
in Room 12 Islesburgh Community Centre, Lerwick. The meeting will be
followed by an illustrated talk by Gary Bell "Albatrosses-Zebra Finches:
A birding road trip through New South Wales and Queensland".
Shetland Bird Report
2010 The 2010 report, published by the
Shetland Bird Club, is now available. As usual, it contains dozens of
colour photographs of birds in Shetland, taken by almost 30 different
photographers, as well as including details of all birds seen in
Shetland in 2010, papers on breeding Leach's Storm-petrels and European
Storm-petrels, details of Shetland's first records of Egyptian Goose,
Iberian Chiffchaff and Water Pipit, and a record of an unusual redpoll
at Sumburgh. Shetland Bird Club members will be getting their copies in
the post.
Copies of the report can be
obtained from Rob Fray,
Sunnydell, Virkie, Shetland, ZE3 9JS (click on name to e-mail). Cost £10
including p&p (in the UK).
Membership of the
Shetland Bird Club costs just £10 for a
year and that includes a copy of the report. The bird club also produces
a newsletter and organises indoor meetings during the year. To become a
member of the Shetland Bird Club, contact the Membership Secretary
Russ Haywood (click
on name to e-mail).
Thank you for your
input This is also a good time to thank
everyone who contributes to the Latest Bird Sightings page on this
website. In case people are not aware, this site was started by Kevin
Osborn in 1996, when he was County Recorder, and it is now run by
Shetland Bird Club Committee members Rob Fray and Mike Pennington, the
latter also being the current editor of the Shetland Bird Report. The
Nature in Shetland website is an essential source of information for the
report and all the information received goes in the database for report
compilation.
Any more records?
It's almost the end of the year so it is time to start thinking about
sending in your 2011 records so we can start on the next report. Records
can be sent to the site (click on Contact Us in the top lefthand corner)
or via the County Recorder,
Mark Chapman (click on name to e-mail).
RSPB Wildlife
Explorers We’re on Facebook
as well – Shetland
RSPB Wildlife Explorers
Shetland Bird Club Code for Birders in
Shetland
To get
a printable pdf of the SBC Code
click here)
Scottish Outdoor Access
Code produced by SNH.
The
Birdwatcher's Code from the RSPB
