15.02.2024 - Indoor Meeting : Molotovs and Merlins

Speaker: Gordon Hamnett
Reporter: Sue Gale

Gordon Hamlett is the author of the much admired ‘Best Birdwatching Sites in the Scottish Highlands’ and this talk tells the story of its production. Gordon first visited the area in the late 1980s when he was thrilled to see his first Red Squirrels, Crested Tits and Ospreys. He started to write articles about the birds of the area for Birdwatch magazine, after which he was asked to write a book about where to see birds in the Highlands, to sit alongside similar volumes about Norfolk and Devon and Cornwall. Gordon discussed the problem issues in such an undertaking – he wanted to include creatures other than birds, and to embrace the history of the area as well as something about the many different habitats.

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