Join our Events Officer for our next Nature Diary painting activity! Each month throughout 2021 Majjistral Park we will be hosting an online activity demonstrating how to draw wildflowers, insects, birds, mammals and more. This month we will be drawing and painting the European Rabbit (Fenek Ewropew). This activity is aimed at children but adults are welcome too.   Details: Date: Saturday, 3rd April 2021 Time: 3:00 – 4:00pm Duration: Approximately 1 hour   Materials needed: Paper*, Pencil, Rubber, Sharpener, Newspaper (to protect surface from paint splatter), Paint (ideally watercolour)**, White paint (poster/acrylic/gouache), Water pot filled with water, Palette to mix paint in, Pieces of kitchen towel, Soft paint brushes (thin and medium sizes), Rough paper to test colours, Hole punch, Ruler. *To create the whole Nature Diary you will need 13 pieces that are the same size. The best paper to use if you are using watercolours is watercolour paper. Our Events Officer uses paper from a watercolour pad so that she doesn’t need to cut the paper. If you do not have watercolour paper thick painting paper (eg. sketching paper) should also be ok but it would be a good idea to test it first. **Watercolour paints can […]

Did you know that the Yelkouan Shearwater is endemic to the Mediterranean region and that it nests at Majjistral Park? Join us for our next Majjistral Park Online Talk - “The Yelkouan Shearwater” with our guest speaker Mr Martin Austad, Seabird Research Coordinator for Birdlife Malta.   Details: Date: Wednesday, 7th April 2021 Time: 19:00 – 20:00 Duration: Approximately 1 hour   Topics:  Introduction to seabirds in the Maltese Islands  The breeding biology and behaviour of Yelkouan Shearwater  The threats to the bird  Past and current LIFE projects (successes and further work required)  How the general public can contribute to help this threatened bird species We will end the session with questions from participants. Register in advance for this meeting by clicking on button below: REGISTER  Zoom version - Please make sure you have the latest version of Zoom before the Online Talk starts to avoid technical issues.  Questions/ Comments - we will have a Q & A session at the end of the presentation. Please remain muted until then.  Chat - if you would like to post your question before the presentation has ended you can post it using the Chat function.  Recording - The presentation will be recorded. […]