An Auction and Social Night extravagansa
A superb evening began with live music from FBO house band The Headlanders who provided an acoustic set of blues, folk and popular hits; the Discovery Room in the Living Seas Centre was rocking!
There was also a special guest appearance from our President Ian Wallace, who came from his Midlands home just for the evening. He was also kind enough to sign many pieces of his wonderful artwork that we had for sale.
The main event was the auction, with many amazing lots from birding companies, artists and members alike. Our auctioneer, John Beaumont, who had been doing his research by watching Flog It, was ably assisted by Karen Bradley. With John’s mallet ringing out the winning bids, we managed to raise an amazing £980 for obs funds; sincere thanks to the bidders for this. The aforementioned Wallace artwork raised £170 which will provide our growing ringing team with new FBO branded ringing smocks and new nets – hopefully to be filled with loads of migrants come spring.
