Secrets in the Scrub: Lesser Whitethroats of Ardeer revealed

Tom Byars

4 April 2024
Photograph of a small bird with grey head and wings and white breast, perched on a leafy branch
Male Lesser Whitethroat foraging in Hawthorn

AGM 2024
Our AGM will be held before the talk begins. Papers below will be sent to members in advance of the meeting.
– Accounts 2024
 – Treasurer’ report 2024
– PNHS constitution, revised 2012
– PNHS proposed revision 2024

This talk replaces the talk by Mark Kirkland on underwater photography, as listed in the programme.

Tom has been studying the Lesser Whitethroat for over forty years in Clyde & Ayrshire and his talk tonight will focus exclusively on Ardeer, which holds half of Ayrshire’s Lesser Whitethroat breeding population. Ardeer was known as the largest explosives factory in the world but this derelict brownfield site is now under threat from massive development instigated by the land owners and North Ayrshire Council. What does the future hold for Ardeer and can one of Scotland’s most biodiverse sites survive?

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