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Monthly Diary - June 2006

A general monthly overview of the park by Tracey Smith.

Although this page will always be retrospective, we shall seek to provide important breaking news by news flash on the front cover of the magazine.


2nd
July
MR2 car club hold their rally at the Trust.
4th
July

Ashley & Tracey travel to the Leeds Armouries to attend a marketing conference.
Amport school visit for their monthly wildflower meadow survey.

6th July
Steller's Sea EaglePhotographer Andy Brooks arrives to take photographs of the newly arrived Steller's Sea Eagles to be used by Isis PR to promote the Trust. It is an instant success with a feature in the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail online and several regional newspapers. It is also featured on BBC news website and BBC & Meridian cefax. Meridian television also come to film a small piece for their local news broadcast.
11th July

Four Parishes Art Society hold an Owls By Torchlight evening at the Trust.
Amport school carry out their wildflower meadow survey.

12th July
Mayor's Civic Day held at the Trust with the mayor and invited guests watching a display, tour of the hospital and the chance to fly a bird.
18th July
Amport school wildflower survey.
19th July

Wild Arena hold a photography workshop at the Trust.

20th July

Research StudentsThis year's Tawny Owl research students arrive and settle into the hospital study accommodation for the summer.

21st
July
Gary & James and some willing volunteers attend Amport Fete with the Trust’s ferrets, to fundraise by ferret racing. Sadly heavy thunderstorms all afternoon mean the event is called off.
27th July

Trustees' meeting.

29th July

Start of the school summer holiday, and good weather brings in large crowds. Over the summer holiday there are special hands on events being run by the research students, including: owl pellet dissection, radio tracking sessions and Bird of Prey identification sessions.

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