Jock Thorburn: Robin Mason - Bird Quiz
Thu, Mar 31st 2016 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Rotary member tests colleagues on their bird knowledge.
President Mairhi Trickett welcomed
numerous visitors to last week's meeting of the Rotary Club from various parts
of the country, Harald Willner and his wife Gale from
Kingston-upon-Thames; Joyce Wilson and her husband Jim from Workington; Jo
Pawley, District Assistant Governor from Eyemouth and Angela Dewar and Alan
Thomson from Melrose. They heard club member Robin Mason give an excellent
illustrated talk on garden birds and their habits. He revealed that bird
types vary in numbers and time mainly due to weather and the effects of climate
change which affects insects and the available wood chain and quoted RSPB
surveys to back this up. He showed a series of slides of common birds to
test the members knowledge of ornithology. The speaker was introduced by
Jock Thorburn and thanked by the President. Last Sunday's Literary High
Tea at the Reiver's Festival was a big success when Gilly Fraser spoke on the
part horses played in Reiver's times and how they were portrayed in the Border
Ballads.
