Connecting Habitats with Dr Larry Griffin

Connections between different sites celebrating the geese such as Lindisfarne and D&G are celebrated as both host our internationally important barnacle and pink-footed, and both sites cater for brent geese […]

Nana’s Garden – Children’s Activity with Lift D&G

Lift D&G Lochside Road, Dumfries

Join LIFT D&G and local artists for engaging, nature-themed workshops for children at the Cabin on Dunlop Road. Let your imagination soar, get creative, and forge a deeper connection with […]

Free

Nana’s Garden – Children’s Activity with Lift D&G

Lift D&G Lochside Road, Dumfries

Join LIFT D&G and local artists for engaging, nature-themed workshops for children at the Cabin on Dunlop Road. Let your imagination soar, get creative, and forge a deeper connection with […]

Free

Migration Exhibition: Wildlife, Journeys, & Plastic

The Stove Cafe 100 High Street, Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

Solway Firth Partnership This exhibition will be in place and open to view at The Stove Cafe daily, excluding Sunday’s. Routes taken by wildlife and plastic to and from the […]

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Watch wildlife at the Robert Burns Centre

Robert Burns Centre Mill Road, Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

(Closed Sunday’s & Monday’s) Have a go at wildlife watching in Dumfries. One of the best places to watch wildlife in Dumfries is the Robert Burns Centre, situated on the […]

free

Halloween and Weird Geese Trail at Mersehead

RSPB Mersehead RSPB Mersehead Nature Reserve, Southwick, Dumfries, United Kingdom

RSPB Scotland This activity is available every day from 12th October – 27th October, 10am. 4pm (excluding Tuesday 15th October and Tuesday 22nd October) Strange sounds and creepy features, explore […]

Saltmarsh Science

RSPB Crook of Baldoon Shell Road, Wigtown

Dumfries and Galloway Council Environment Team & SCAMP Saltmarshes (or merse) is a very popular habitat for Geese as they return for the winter. This unique environment provides a home […]

free

Sketching to See Saltmarsh

RSPB Crook of Baldoon Shell Road, Wigtown

Dumfries and Galloway Council Environment Team & SCAMP Saltmarshes (or merse) is a very popular habitat for Geese as they return for the winter. This unique environment provides a home […]

free

Hear Here: Project Launch

The Stove & Fair Scotland Join us for the dynamic launch of Hear Here, a collaborative project by the Stove Network and Fair Scotland. Celebrate the heritage, culture, and contemporary […]

free

Goose Breakfast at The Boathouse

The Boathouse Quayside,, Glencaple, Dumfries, United Kingdom

Enjoy a breakfast at the Boathouse in Glencaple and learn about the geese of the Solway Firth with experts from WWT Caerlaverock and NatureScot. Watch as the geese use the […]

free

Creative Writing Workshop with Stephen Rutt

The Supper Room County Buildings, South Main Street, Wigtown

The saltmarsh at Wigtown attracts thousands of wintering pink footed geese, barnacle geese, ducks and waders. In spring and summer a host of special plants cover the merse, and the […]

free

Funny Family Folktales

The Wild Goose Festival Hub The Loreburne Centre, Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway, United Kingdom

Scottish International Storytelling Festival Author and storyteller Allison Galbraith will captivate the whole family with her hilarious Scottish stories. Meet the Woolly Pet and sing along with a gang of […]

free

Scottish Folktales: Bridges to the Otherworld

Riverside Tap 5 Friars Vennel, Dumfries

Scottish Storytelling Festival Folklorist Allison Galbraith and storyteller Beverley Casebow will enthral you with stories from the Otherworld. Our ancestors’ belief in a world of spirits and ethereal beings has […]

free

Dawn Flight

WWT Caerlaverock WWT Caerlaverock, Eastpark Farm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Greet the dawn with the spectacular flight of the barnacle geese departing the reserve as the sun comes up.  These beautiful birds have spent the night out on the Solway […]

Birding for Brents – CANCELLED

Bunker Snack Bar Carpark by A77, Stranraer

GSA Biosphere, Scottish Ornithologists Club (SOC), British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS. Loch Ryan is a fantastic birding […]

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Goose Roost on Sandflats Walk at Mersehead

RSPB Mersehead RSPB Mersehead Nature Reserve, Southwick, Dumfries, United Kingdom

RSPB Scotland Some of the greatest spectacles of nature take place at dusk. Join our guide to enjoy Svalbard barnacle geese descending on the sandflat and reserve to roost. ¾mile/1.3km […]

Storytelling and Games with Carl the Goose

WWT Caerlaverock WWT Caerlaverock, Eastpark Farm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

WWT Caerlaverock (with Include Us) Join Include Us at WWT Caerlaverock for a morning of fun and games! Meet Carl the Goose and Steven C Gull who will tell their […]

Free

Dr Werner Kissling: Photographer Ethnographer & Migrant

Dumfries and Galloway Council Museums Service Dumfries Museum, Rotchell Road, Dumfries

Learn about the life and works of pioneering German Filmmaker photographer (and Dumfries resident) Dr Werner Kissling in this fully illustrated talk. Dr Werner Kissling was born into great luxury […]

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High Tide Birding

WWT Caerlaverock WWT Caerlaverock, Eastpark Farm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Watch a spectacle of hundreds of ducks, waders and geese flocking on the merse, brought in by the high tide. Join a warden who will be on hand to identify […]

Nature Faces with NatureScot

Castle Corner Carpark, for Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve Dumfries

An interactive morning with our reserve officers to get into the woods, collect natural materials and talk about the animals that live on the reserve. There will be a large […]

free

A Time Travelling Walk Through Saltmarsh

Annan Museum Bank Street, Annan

Dumfries and Galloway Council Environment Team & SCAMP Saltmarshes (or merse) is a very popular habitat for Geese as they return for the winter. This unique environment provides a home […]

free

Sketching the Magic of the Merse

Dumfries and Galloway Council Environment Team & SCAMP Saltmarshes (or merse) is a very popular habitat for Geese as they return for the winter. This unique environment provides a home […]

free

Film Screening: My Neighbour Totoro

Robert Burns Centre Mill Road, Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

When two sisters relocate to the Japanese countryside, they quickly realise they have unusual neighbours including Totoro. This film is being screened as part of the Wild Goose Festival – […]

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Greenland to Galloway

The Crannog Lochside Park, Castle Douglas

Loch Ken is home to one of the few colonies of Greenland White Fronted Geese in the UK.  Come hear a talk from the RSPB about the amazing journey of […]

free

Caerlaverock Cycle Ride

Dock Park Dockhead, Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

WWT Caerlaverock, Cycling Dumfries, Nith Life and NatureScot jointly host this fun cycling event. Cycling Dumfries are delighted to join WWT, Nith Life and NatureScot, to host this guided wildlife […]

free

Geese of the Past, Geese of the Present, Geese of the Future.

WWT Caerlaverock WWT Caerlaverock, Eastpark Farm, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

WWT Caerlaverock (with Dave Borthwick of the University of Glasgow) This creative writing session will encourage writers to reflect on how migratory geese might have been perceived in the past […]

Nana’s Garden – Children Activity with Lift D&G

Join LIFT D&G and local artists for engaging, nature-themed workshops for children at the Cabin on Dunlop Road. Let your imagination soar, get creative, and forge a deeper connection with […]

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