283 April 2018 - Gryffe Advertizer

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Welcome to Scotland’s largest Regional Park
Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park Monthly Update
Traditional Easter Fun: The Ranger Service will
be decorating and rolling eggs down Windy Hill at
Muirshiel on Sat 31st March and Sun 1st April from
1.30pm – 3.30pm. Plus there’s a drop in quiz at
Castle Semple around the lochshore field that you can
do. Plus - just added a new event on Easter Sunday
at Greenock Cut to decorate and roll your egg too!
Sun 1st, 1pm - 3pm tickets £5.
Outdoor Activity Courses this Easter: If you’d like
your child to try a new watersport or activity this Easter
holiday call us or check online now. There may be
some spaces left for sailing, kayaking, canoeing or our
amazing try the, all multi-activity week! Or if we’re all
booked up then get in early for summer, once they’re
gone, they’re gone!
Walking Festival Save the Date: On 26th - 28th
May is our first ever Clyde Muirshiel Walking Festival!
There are easy, moderate and longer walks planned
for each day. Explore the Park at a pace you’ll enjoy
and with a knowledgeable guide. Details will be on
clydemuirshiel.co.uk soon.
Pedal the Park & Operation Outdoors! The 100km
Sportive is just 3 weeks away now but there is still time
to sign up! The event takes place on Sunday 22nd
April It’s just £20 entry through British Cycling with
a third of the fee going to CLIC Sargent in Scotland.
Come along to Operation Outdoors afterwards too
and get your bike marked by the police and aid your
recovery with a bike smoothie!
Clyde Muirshiel Conservation Volunteers:
Greenock Cut’s group meet 10.30am – 2.30pm every
Saturday and Castle Semple on Thursdays 12.30pm
– 3.30pm with the odd full day session. See the full
programme online.
Conservation Bioblitz @ Greenock Cut: The new
project’s next event, hosted by Greenock Cut Rangers
and Conservation Volunteers, is a bumblebee and
wildflower ID walk 1pm - 3pm. Book a space online today!
Ride 63 Community Cycle Club: Weekly rides
start again in April, we’ll be out on Tuesdays, look
on our facebook group for the first date and meeting
time. Contact the club by emailing the secretary
ridesixtythree@gmail.com for a membership form.
Tag-n-Track Project Update
It’s time for the monthly roundup from the Tag-n-Track
Ranger - Hannah Riley. TnT is funded by Heritage
Lottery Fund, Greater Renfrewshire and Inverclyde
LEADER and Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park.
Project News: It is that time of year again when we
are seeing the Lesser Black-backed Gulls back on our
shores. The team have seen many at Castle Semple
loch and quite a few in Glasgow too, none with colour
rings yet but it is only a matter of time! So far none
of our own gulls have returned home for the breeding
season. They might have been put off by our recent
snow storm! Perhaps the gulls that have already
returned are regretting their decision? Although we
aren’t getting a lot of data at the moment because of
network failures and reduced lighting we can still see
that we have Clyde in Western Sahara, Stuart, Atty
and Flyback in Morocco, Roland, Roger, PC Bobby
and Gary in Portugal and we have Jonathan, Stephen
and Archie in France.
There’s a lovely photo of Archie below, taken in
France on the 25th of February by Philippe Birac in
the region of Le Verdon-sur-Mer. He is still in his
winter plumage, which may indicate that he will be
one of the later birds to return. He is looking in good
condition, however, which bodes well for when he
does eventually come home. Gary, who has been in
Portugal since December, started to move into Spain
in February and we thought that might be him heading
home, however he seems to be settled travelling
over the border between Portugal and Spain. Stay
tuned for next month as we may have some our gulls
home!
The team have been busy delivering talks in the last
month to the Culzean Gardening Club, St Elizabeth’s
Primary School in Hamilton, and at two schools in
Dalry and West Primary in Paisley. We are continuing
to increase our public engagement activities and
events so if you would like us to come and talk to
your group then please get in touch. Details can be
found below. To keep up to date with the project and
to find out more check out www.clydemuirshiel.co.uk/
things-to-do/widlife/tag-n-track/teamgull/ or at www.
facebook.com/TagnTrack/
Gull adoptions: Looking for that something different
or are you interested in supporting our gull project?
We are offering gull adoption packs where you can
sponsor one of the gulls for £25 and in return you will
receive an adoption certificate, factsheet, monthly
email updates, your name on our website and a fl uffy
gull to call your own. Look for details on our website
or email tnt@clydemuirshiel.co.uk to fi nd out more.
Archie
Keep up to speed with events and activities taking place on the
Park’s Facebook: facebook.com/ClydeMuirshielRegionalPark or
Twitter @Clydemuirshiel pages and Instagram pages.
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