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 SOC Highland Branch Talks
  • SOC Highland branch will hold a mixture of face-to-face and virtual meetings, via Zoom, in session 2025/2026. An invitation with a link to the Zoom meeting will be sent out to the branch's members a few days before the event via email. To receive this notice, please ensure that you are on the appropriate mailing list held by 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).
  • Face-to-face meetings will be held at Culloden Library, Keppoch Road, Culloden IV2 7LL
  • For instructions on how to use Zoom, please click here.
  • When: The following days at 7.30pm:


INDOOR MEETINGS  
 
Tue 2 Sep         Effect of Climate Change on Highland Birds  - Andy Summers – Senior Countryside Ranger for North Highlands
 
Tue 7 Oct         Out of the Dark: breeding Nightjars in NE Scotland   - Alan Knox
 
Tue 4 Nov         Online via Teams 
                             National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU)   -  Gavin Ross
 
Tue 2 Dec         Ring Ouzels followed by Christmas social  = Nick Baker, Naturalist 
 
 
2026
Tue 6 Jan          Online:   Looking after a million seabirds: NTS’s work to protect and restore Scotland’s seabirds    -  Ellie Owen Senior Seabird Officer. NTS
 
Tue3 Feb          Online:   Isle of May  -  David Steel
 
Tue 3 Mar         Spring with the Midlothian Dippers  -  Rachel Steenson
 
Tue 7 Apr          AGM & Thomas Plant – Inverness Urban Sparrowhawks

Contact: Mary Galloway, send Mary an email or phone 07598 320978.

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  • Where to go
    • Inverness-shire >
      • Fort George and Whiteness
      • In and around Inverness
    • Badenoch and Strathspey >
      • Speyside in general
      • Badenoch and Strathspey
      • Northern Cairngorms
    • Easter Ross >
      • Easter Ross in general
      • Chanonry Point
      • Tarbat Ness
    • Wester Ross >
      • Ullapool and Gruinard Bay
      • Gairloch, Loch Ewe and Loch Maree
      • Loch Kishorn
    • Lochaber >
      • Fort William
      • Canna
      • Eigg
      • Rum
    • Skye and Lochalsh >
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    • Sutherland >
      • Southeast Sutherland
      • Melvich
      • Kyle of Tongue
      • Assynt
      • Loch Eriboll
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  • AGM Minutes April 2025