The 2022 Annual Conference was held at Aberystwyth University on Saturday 5th November. It was an excellent and thought-provoking day and it was a delight to resume face-to-face gatherings after three years’ pandemic losses, and to catch up with old friends and make new ones.  Here’s a link to the BTO Cymru blog post which reports on the highlights. There’ll be a summary of two of the key contributions in the Winter 2022 e-newsletter.

The 2022 conference was on the theme of “After Dark” and included:

• Manxies: world globetrotter – Oliver Padget
• Research into reducing the risk of collisions at offshore wind farms – Sean Sweeney
• Storm Petrels after dark – Rob Thomas
• Owls and conservation in the community – Dan Rouse
• Nocturnal wader ringing – Tony Cross
• Nocturnal migration (Nocmig) – Simon Gillings
• Latest news from BTO and RSPB Cymru – Kelvin Jones and Neil Lambert
• Iolo Williams  gave his annual round-up