284 May 2018 - Gryffe Advertizer
The Advertizer - Your local community magazine to the Gryffe area. The Advertizer is a local business directory including a what's on guide and other local information and an interesting mix of articles.
The Advertizer - Your local community magazine to the Gryffe area. The Advertizer is a local business directory including a what's on guide and other local information and an interesting mix of articles.
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Welcome to Scotland’s largest Regional Park<br />
Clyde Muirshiel Monthly Update<br />
Walking Festival: Explore the Park at a pace you’ll<br />
enjoy and with a knowledgeable guide. There are<br />
easy, moderate and longer walks planned. Full list<br />
on clydemuirshiel.co.uk Places are free but require<br />
booking. Whether on a guided walk or on your own -<br />
show us your walking photos #cmwalkfest<br />
Bat Walk at Castle Semple: Join the Clyde Muirshiel<br />
Rangers for a night time stroll around Lochwinnoch<br />
and hear the usually quiet world of bats with our bat<br />
detectors! Friday 4th <strong>May</strong>, 8pm - 10pm. £5 per person.<br />
Book your place online now.<br />
Outdoor Activity Courses this Summer: If you’d<br />
like your child to try a new watersport or activity this<br />
Summer holiday call us or check online now. We offer<br />
sailing, kayaking, canoeing or our amazing try-them-all<br />
multi-activity week! If we’re all booked up then why not<br />
organise your own course, you just need 6 kids.<br />
Muirshiel Tree Felling: 8000 trees have been removed<br />
from the Country Park, completely changing the<br />
landscape – visit soon to see for yourself! There will<br />
be the opportunity to replant broadleaf trees for future<br />
generations. Signage is onsite as to which paths are<br />
open/passable with care over the fallout brashings.<br />
Clyde Muirshiel Conservation Volunteers: Greenock<br />
Cut’s group meet 10.30am – 2.30pm every Saturday<br />
and Castle Semple on Thursdays 12.30 – 3.30pm with<br />
the odd full day session. See the new spring programme<br />
online now.<br />
Are your Colleagues in need of Challenge? Develop<br />
new relationships, ease office tension, improve<br />
teambuilding and volunteer with the Ranger Service<br />
doing tree work or conservation tasks. Email rangers.<br />
castlesemple@clydemuirshiel.co.uk<br />
Conservation Bioblitz @ Greenock Cut: The new<br />
project’s next event, hosted by Greenock Cut Rangers<br />
and Conservation Volunteers, is a moth evening on<br />
Saturday 26th <strong>May</strong> from 9.30pm until late. Book a<br />
space online today!<br />
Ride 63 Community Cycle Club: Weekly rides on<br />
Tuesdays and some Thursday evenings, look on our<br />
facebook group for the next ride date and meeting<br />
time. Contact the club by emailing the secretary<br />
ridesixtythree@gmail.com for a membership form.<br />
Tag-n-Track Project Update<br />
Prioject News: The gulls are finally returning to<br />
Scotland! Gary is back at his nesting site on the police<br />
station roof in Greenock. During his migration he spent<br />
time in England before heading to Portugal, via Spain<br />
then taking an almost exact route home. Gary was<br />
away for 8 months out of the year. We hope to see him<br />
find his lifelong mate again so that they can rear more<br />
healthy chicks.<br />
In other wonderful news - one of our tags has come back<br />
online after being offline since the 13th of November.<br />
Flyback spent the majority of his winter migration in<br />
Morocco, which is where he was last recorded. Now<br />
he is taking an entirely new route home.<br />
The team had an excellent day bird ringing at Hansel<br />
Village where we caught goldcrests, wrens, dunnocks,<br />
blue tits, coals tits and great tits. Everyone enjoyed<br />
seeing the birds up close and particularly enjoyed<br />
letting them go. In April we visited the RSPB Renfrew<br />
group and Community Networks. To keep up to<br />
date with the project and to find out more check out<br />
www.clydemuirshiel.co.uk/things-to-do/widlife/tag-ntrack/teamgull/<br />
or at www.facebook.com/TagnTrack/<br />
Gull adoptions:<br />
Sponsor one of the<br />
gulls for £25 and in<br />
return you will receive<br />
an adoption certificate,<br />
factsheet, monthly<br />
email updates, your<br />
name on our website<br />
and a fluffy gull to<br />
call your own. Look<br />
for details on our<br />
website or email tnt@<br />
clydemuirshiel.co.uk<br />
to find out more. A<br />
lovely gift!<br />
Event News: See our<br />
native woodland birds<br />
up close and meet the<br />
TnT Team at Greenock<br />
Cut on Saturday 5th<br />
and at Muirshiel on<br />
Sunday 6th <strong>May</strong> at<br />
Greenock Cut Visitor<br />
Centre for a weekend<br />
of Bird Ringing Demonstrations. Drop in anytime time<br />
between 11am – 3.30pm.<br />
Volunteer with TnT: One of the project’s aims is to train<br />
volunteers in the use of our camera traps. The joys<br />
of camera trapping are that you never know what you<br />
might capture. We are looking for volunteers to use<br />
and monitor our camera traps for 3 month periods. All<br />
training will be provided. Requires a couple of hours<br />
a week to collect and go through the footage. If you<br />
would like to find out more then contact us.<br />
Connect with TnT: Details can be found on the Park’s<br />
website www.clydemuirshiel.co.uk/tag-n-track or by<br />
emailing tnt@clydemuirshiel.co.uk. The Project also<br />
know has its own Facebook Page which can be found at<br />
www.facebook.com/TagnTrack/ Talks to groups can be<br />
arranged if you are interested in finding out more about<br />
the project and its findings as the project progresses.<br />
Our monthly roundup comes courtesy of Tag-n-Track<br />
Ranger Hannah Riley. TnT is funded by Heritage Lottery<br />
Fund, Greater Renfrewshire and Inverclyde LEADER<br />
and Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park.<br />
Keep up to speed with events and activities taking place on the Park’s Facebook: facebook.<br />
com/ClydeMuirshielRegionalPark or Twitter @Clydemuirshiel pages and Instagram pages.<br />
deadline date for our june issue - Friday 18th <strong>May</strong> - You don’t want to miss it!!
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