Posts for August, 2022

Rounding off our summer of outdoor free parties, with extra special guests.

Like last time we’ll be lighting up the garden and the trees with fire and electronics, serving you from our outside bar (courtesy of Inshriach Gin).

Free entry. Pizza and pasta food trucks. Full lighting rig and fire pits after dark. DJs from 4pm till late.

Shaka Loves You, fresh from Glastonbury and every other top tier festival going, will bring you their unique mix of dance floor friendly disco and soul, with live percussion. Joining the SLY boys are long time OBI amigo and turntablist legend The Wook. Your host and local publican selector OC complete the bill.

Pizzas from Highland Slice and fresh pasta from Tagliotello again, which just keeps on selling out, so do come early to fill your face.

New stretch tents will be making their debut too, Inshriach Gin are providing us with a bar and Ruckus Rave / Shenanigan Inverness are on lighting and PA duties, as we continue to strive to make OBI events the best going.

TV does not do this place justice – What an amazing spectacle, visit the Serengeti, Ngorogoro and a host of others. The big five, wildlife adventures and a myriad of amazing birds.

The DSUK Race the Train in association with Cairngorm Runners is back for 2022 and it is full steam ahead!

Join us in the 7Km trail run, to race to the finish against the Strathspey Railway steam train from Boat of Garten along the Speyside Way to Aviemore. Much of the race, especially the second half, runs by the railway track, if you hear the train coming you’d better stoke your engine and sprint for the finish!

Whether you have been a runner your whole life or just starting out, taking part in Race the Train for DSUK is a fantastic opportunity to test your progress while competing not only with your fellow runners, but with the traditional Highland steam train all while supporting Disability Snowsports UK.

The DSUK Race the Train event is a wonderful team-building event or an enjoyable challenge for the solo runner. It also promises to be a wonderful day out for spectators too, find a spot-on route and cheer the runners.

At Birdfair 2018, the Great British public raised over £300,000 to support the creation of Argentina’s newest national park – Mar Chiquita in the Province of Cordoba. This reserve is the largest inland salt sea in South America and plays host in the winter to all three species of South American Flamingo, in addition to hundreds of other species. Mike Dilger travelled out there in 2019 to find out where all your money went!

After more than 15 years of world-wide touring and three album releases, Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson–otherwise known as the folk duo Hungrytown–have earned a reputation for the quality and authenticity of their songwriting: “It’s great to hear an act eschew sentimentality in favor of honesty and to prove that you don’t have to go raiding the memory of others to find the stuff that really good songs are made of,” writes Jedd Beaudoin of Popmatters.

Hall and Anderson met in New York City, where they had already been performing regularly–Hall as a jazz singer, and Anderson as a drummer for a variety of garage bands.

They released their first CD, Hungrytown, in 2008; Any Forgotten Thing in 2011; and Further West in 2015. The couple continue to spend more than half of each year on the road, especially roads in North America, Europe and New Zealand. Hungrytown’s music has received extensive radio airplay worldwide and has appeared on several television shows, including The Daily Show and Portlandia.

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Alan takes us from the early days of birding when draw-tube telescopes and Barbour jackets were the fashion through to modern day birdwatching where iPhones are almost as important as binoculars. Find out how a small café on the North Norfolk coast was the epicentre for bird information and join Alan on some of his many birdwatching adventures around the world.

This talk will feature filming and floral adventures as father Mike and his son Zachary explore the joys of the natural world together. Featuring clips from the One Show and expeditions to see rare plants, Mike talks about the importance of getting kids both outside and immersed in nature.

Flood plains or fantastic wildlife habitat – visit this ancient habitat with its unique flora and fauna. Also, find out what makes this an amazing all year round bird watching location.

Dawn Balmer, Head of Surveys at the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).will share her thoughts on some of the most significant changes in the British avifauna over the last 40 years. The talk will highlight some of these changes using the latest information from long-term surveys, projects and atlases.