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Hub Programme 2024
Join us at the Wild Goose Festival Hub this October for fun and creative events, science workshops, and activities. Learn all about our feathery friends, the Wild Geese, and discover why they visit us here in Dumfries & Galloway every year. Meet some of the people helping to protect our natural resources and get crafty…
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Larry Griffin Goose Talk at the Riverside Tap
An event for adults at The Riverside Tap. Join Larry as he discusses the connections between different sites celebrating the geese, such as Lindisfarne and D&G, which are celebrated as both host our internationally important barnacle geese and pink-footed geese. Both sites also cater for brent geese from different parts of the Arctic through their…
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EVENT POSTPONED TO 2025 -ZOR, Presented by The Stove and Dumfries & Galloway Museums and Heritage Network
This event was originally programmed for the 26th of October 2024, but has been postponed to Spring 2025. More details to follow – please keep an eye on The Stove Network’s social media channels and the Wild Goose Festival event page for updates. ZOR is a fresh, energetic Roma band that burst onto the scene…
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Wild Goose Festival 2024 Takes Flight
Dumfries & Galloway’s annual Wild Goose Festival is back and celebrates its fifth birthday with its biggest programme yet. Autumn 2024 marks the fifth birthday of the Dumfries & Galloway’s local Wild Goose Festival. This year key partners from across the region have designed a packed programme of family-friendly activity that combines creativity and interactive…
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Migration Exhibition: Wildlife, Journeys, & Plastic
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 Solway shore often follow close parallels. This exhibition compares and contrasts the often remarkable journeys taken by the migrating wildlife and floating litter that rely…
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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 from different parts of the Arctic too through their provision of safe, high quality undisturbed foraging and roosting habitats. All three species have similar coastal habitat…
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Sketching to See Saltmarsh
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 and a rich sources of food for many other breeds of birds, including lapwing, redshank and skylark. If you look a little closer the saltmarsh…
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Saltmarsh Science
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 and a rich sources of food for many other breeds of birds, including lapwing, redshank and skylark. Meeting at the RSPB Reserve at Crook of…
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Birding for Brents – CANCELLED
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 spot with a wintering population of light-bellied brent geese. These fascinating birds migrate 5,000km from Canada each year to spend the winter on our coastline.…
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Creative Writing Workshop with Stephen Rutt
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 sound of skylarks fill the air. It is a beautiful and rare habitat which is inspiring to write about. Local author Stephen Rutt will guide…