Welsh Journals

THE WEST WALES FIELD SOCIETY SERVICE TO MEMBERS THE Society was formed in 1945 for the study and conservation of wild life in Wales. By joining the Society (Fellow i is. Member 1os. 6d.), you will receive the quarterly Nature in Wales free. Your member- ship card entitles you to join in the field excursions, lectures and meetings in the several parts of Wales in which the Society operates. It enables you to visit, without landing-fee, the Society's island sanctuaries and nature reserves of St. Margaret's, Skokholm, Grass- holm (owned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and wardened by the W.W.F.S.), and Cardigan Island. The Society owns Dale Fort, which is leased to the Field Studies Council, a body which provides at the Fort accommodation and facilities for students and naturalists visiting West Wales. The Society holds the lease of Skokholm Island, where, in 1946 it re-established the well-known Skokholm Bird Observatory. This is now administered by the F.S.C. but in order to stay at the Observatory, visitors must be members of the W.W.F.S. The Society operates the Orielton Duck Decoy for the ringing of wildfowl. The private nature reserve of Orielton, with its 260 acres of woods, ponds, and rich wild life, is open to members. The activities of the Society include the co-operative study by marking (with rings, etc.) of animals, including birds and seals, and the recording of their distribution and habits in Wales. For years the Society's honorary wardens have taken the principal part in the protection of the Kite, supported by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and others. The Society promoted the establishment of the Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory, in partnership with the Birmingham Bird Club. The Society assists in national enquiries and keeps in close touch with the R.S.P.B., the British Trust for Ornithology, the Botanical Society of the British Isles, the Mammal Society of the British Isles, and other national, regional and county natural history organisations. It is represented on the Nature Con- servancy's Committee for Wales. Membership is open to all who are interested in the study and conservation of wild life in Wales. Special arrangements are available for Corporate Membership in the case of schools. Particulars from the Editorial Address or from the Hon. Secretary D. G. Sansbury, Is-y-Coed, Talybont, Cards.