We have a very special event coming up and we'd like you to come along if you possibly can. We're having a Dyfi Osprey Project evening, Wednesday next week.

***  7.15pm at the Tabernacle, Machynlleth - Wednesday 28th March  ***

At the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, we pride ourselves on providing as much information about the Dyfi Osprey Project as possible to all our followers. This event next week will be part of this endeavour to keep as many people as up to date as we can with all that is new for this upcoming season. We will focus strongly on volunteering, as this forms the main part of how Dyfi Osprey Project works. We will explain everything that is new for this upcoming season, including the new HD cameras, and how you can be part of the team that will control them in 2012. We will talk about new children's activities that are planned, and we will also let you know about an ambitious and exciting project to build a 360° Observatory for the 2013 season.

Janine and Alwyn closing the doors for the last time last September after a roller-coaster osprey season

Apart from myself, there are two other staff members that work at the Dyfi Osprey Project, Alwyn and Janine - they both work from the first day we open to the last day we close each year, then they volunteer during the winter months. You may have heard about many others that are part of the team - Bob, Maria, Al Davies, and so on. Along with around 70 others, they are all volunteers who keep the Dyfi Osprey Project going 365 days a year. Community involvement, participation and volunteering forms the backbone of what we do and how we do it.

Heather showing a keen osprey fan what's happening at the osprey nest in 2011

We will also have a Questions & Answers session at the end of next week's event - an opportunity for you to ask anything you like about the Dyfi Osprey Project or the wider work of Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust. We value what people tell us and by listening, we take opinions and views on board so that we can continually improve year on year.

Do you fancy coming along? It's free, and if you are a current volunteer or would like to start volunteering, we have a brand new Dyfi Osprey Project Handbook to give to you. It's full of lovely images of Nora, Monty, and their three youngsters from 2011. If you have no interest in volunteering but would like to know more, you are equally as welcome and if you have any views we would like to hear them.

Maria checking one of the moth traps - she has now identified 398 Moth species on Cors Dyfi Reserve where the Dyfi Osprey Project is situated

RECAP: Start at 7.15pm Wednesday next week, March 28th at the Tabernacle, Machynlleth. The Dyfi Osprey Project opens two days later on Friday, March 30th. Details of the Tabernacle and how to get to it are here.

Bob painting the visitor centre over the weekend in readiness for the 2012 season

*** A flyer about the event  ***