We are delighted to report that the very popular Scottish Bird Camp was back for 2024. 

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In the first weekend of June SOC and BTO Scotland welcomed 14 amazing participants to our base camp in East Lothian for the third annual Scottish Bird Camp, with some coming from as far as the Outer Hebrides to take part in this nature-filled weekend with us.

With a beautiful sunny evening ahead of us on Friday after arrival, the group headed out round our accommodation to check out some of the local wildlife signs around the camp. First off was a visit to the Nuthatch nest (in use for the second year running) in the local church tower – none of the team have come across building-nesting Nuthatch before – have any of our readers? Do let us know! Then Ben Darvill showed us a few bird nests that he had scoped out the week before – with everyone getting to see an (old) song thrush nest up close, seeing how solidly constructed from vegetation and mud it is! We then had a wander up to the local Badger sett, where we set out a camera trap to see if we could catch some footage over the weekend. A few of us even managed to stay up past sunset to see the first of the local Soprano and Common Pipistrelles coming out to forage around the garden.

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Releasing ringed birds

Mothing with Katty Baird

Making bird boxes to take home from camp

On the boat to Bass Rock