Tuesday 5th February I started the wonderful journey up to Inverness to talk to the Inverness branch of the Scottish Ornithology Club about my PhD. The journey up was beautiful as we had just had snow. Going over the Cairngorns was magnificent; such a good view I could get any work done. Oops! The Inverness branch was extremely welcoming and ask some great questions. Really thought provoking, and some great ideas for future research. On Wednesday I then went to Thurso for give a talk to the Caithness Branch. Never been that far north on the UK mainland and it was beautiful. The flow country was stunning, and I even managed to stay at Dunnets Head (the most northern point of mainland UK). Thursday I then made the trip across to Orkney, some where I have been meaning to go for a long time. I was meet by a member of the SOC (also a member of the Orkney ringing group) who acted as my tour guide and showed me Skae Brae, the Standing Stones and we did a road trip around the island. It was really nice to talk to the Orkney branch out blue tits, a bird they don't experience very often (I know... blue tits are considered rare up there, how bizarre). Overall the trip was amazing, and it really drove home how much I actually new about my research... but as they say "the more you know, the more you know you don't know" and this is certainly true!
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