Past Bird Reports Now Available To Non-Members 🚩🚩🚩

Past annual bird reports have now been made available to non club members, see REPORTS ARCHIVE tab on main menu. The reports can be viewed online and downloaded if required. For the most recent reports, 2015 and 2016, please contact us using the CONTACT US tab on the main menu.

Art Exhibition this weekend

FBC member Leo du Feu has issued the following invitation:

My studio in pleasant coastal Burntisland, Fife is open 11am-6pm both Sat and Sun (7th and 8th Sept) as part of www.centralfifeopenstudios.org/burntisland.html
A 15 minute walk from Burntisland station. 
My mum Susan Smith in the studio downstairs is also open.
Please share with anyone who may be interested. 
Please note – my studio is up two flights of steps.

Test Post For Featured Images

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Just for a change media on right.

Testing way to avoid always displaying features image in post write-up. Seems to work with Media Library images but not with Nextgen.

Could conceivably get Nextgen image into Media Library.

Little Bee-eater (Merops pusillus), Bijilo Forest Park, the Gambia
  • Must do tomorrow
  • Could wait
  • Better leave

This is a nice photograph. thought it was worth drawing attention to.

Interesting that by default first sentence is located in middle of block.

Adding additional blocks does balance things out somewhat. Nevertheless still need a bit familiarity.

If I keep writing new paragraphs, what happens to the “overflow”?

A test of the verse block

2019-20 Memberships Now Available

Join the Fife Bird Club now and get membership through till 1st August 2020.  2018-19 membership forms can be used, see How To Join FBC under the VISITORS top menu item.  Please note that, if you wish, you can pay by bank transfer using the club account information on the membership forms.  Alternatively, use the CONTACT US menu item and we’ll answer any questions.

Access to Edenside Hide

Access to the Fife Bird Club hide at Edenside is strictly for FBC members, by the kind agreement of the landowner. This longstanding arrangement is under threat due to the actions of non-members who have chosen to stand alongside, or in front of, the hide potentially causing disturbance to the wildlife and defeating the purpose of having a hide in the first place. The individuals concerned are asked to respect not only the wildlife, but also requests from Fife Bird Club members and the wishes of the landowner.

The hide overlooks the Eden Estuary Local Nature Reserve and on no account should anyone loiter outside the hide or go beyond the hide and encroach on the reserve itself. The placement of feeders near to the hide is also strictly forbidden.

The reserve hosts a wide range of species and it should be noted that under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, Schedule 1 includes “birds and their young, for which it is an offence to intentionally or recklessly disturb at, on or near an ‘active’ nest”.