Autumn Series Launch – a quiz and some beautiful music for 27 March 2018

Posted on 29 March, 2018 by Tanya Loos

Our Autumn Workshop Series launch was a fun and friendly fun affair. About 40 people enjoyed the mild Autumn weather in the beautiful Hub Plot garden, including landholders, new Connecting Country members, and members of our management committee and staff.

Following our workshop series theme of ‘Monitoring Healthy Habitats’, the evening included a fun and educational nature quiz. The various skulls, scats and other fascinating quiz items were largely from Tanya’s naturalist collection. Some of the items were quite difficult to identify!

After a drink or two and some yummy vegan nibbles, teams formed to tackle the quiz. Saide and Helen were the winning team. They correctly identified an echidna skull, a peregrine falcon’s regurgitated pellet (including racing pigeon ID rings!) and an echidna scat. Well done!

No-one correctly guessed the super-hard question – which was a small collection of stick insect scats! The prize for this question was a copy of Tracks, Scats and Traces, by Barbara Triggs. Margaret guessed caterpillar scats – which was near enough. Well done Margaret!

After the quiz, Nioka treated us to a beautiful series of songs, both covers and originals. Thank you Nioka!

We thank everyone for coming along, and wish all our friends and supporters a very restful and happy Easter long weekend. Special thanks to everyone who helped out and made the launch possible.

The Autumn workshop series is kindly funded by the Wettenhall Environment Trust.