Highland Foundation for Wildlife

Contacts

Honorary Director:  

Roy Dennis MBE, Middle Lodge, Dunphail, Forres, Moray, IV36 2QQ
Telephone 01309 611771 Email: roydennis@aol.com

Chairman: Jamie Whittle at our

Registered Address:  

R & R. Urquhart, Solicitors,
117-121 High Street, Forres, Moray IV36 1AB

Our logo is a pair of goldeneye because this was one of the first rare breeding species that Roy Dennis worked with in Scotland. In 1961 I saw a female goldeneye caring for a tufted duckling in July at Loch Allan in Moray. That winter I erected 12 nest boxes in Strathspey, supplied by George Waterston, the then Director of the RSPB in Scotland. Each winter on holiday from Fair Isle,  I cleaned out the boxes for the next summer - finally in 1970 the first one was used by a breeding goldeneye.

Returning to Strathspey in 1971 as the RSPB's Highland Officer, I organised more nest boxes and a successful conservation project which resulted in the species successfully colonising the Highlands.  And we think they are just great birds.