Cambridge Natural History Society.

Diary 2006

January 1 - CPS winter bird count at Coton
January 12 - CNHS Council meeting
January 22 - CPS hedge and woodland management at Coton
January 24 - SCI lecture Dr Paul Digard, Cambridge Department of Pathology - "Death waiting in the wings: Pandemic avian flu"
January 26 - CWT lecture Yvonne Leonard on protecting the flora of roadside verges
February 9 - CNHS lecture, Murray Corke on Otters
February 16 - CNHS lecture, Dan Tucker on Wildlife diseases in the UK, their threat to human health
February 23 - CWT lecture Clive Oppenheimer on the natural history of volcanoes
March 2 - CNHS lecture, Peter Brown & Remy Ware on the spread and impact of the harlequin ladybird
March 4 - CNHS visit to NHM Darwin centre
March 8 - SCI lecture Professor Sir Peter Crane, Director of Kew Gardens - "Plants in the 21st Century"
March 9 - CNHS lecture, Amanda Proud on water voles in Cambridgeshire
March 16 - CNHS lecture, Nancy Harrison on Observations of tits in the Botanic Garden
March 21 - CPS consultation on Bin Brook Meadows, Coton
March 26 - CNHS survey of Grantchester Meadows
March 30 - CWT lecture Barry Kaufman-Wright on the role of a police wildlife liaison officer
April 6 - CNHS Council meeting
April 7 - Memorial piano recital for Max Walters
April 12 - LNR Friends of Fleam Dyke & Roman Road AGM
April 27 - CWT lecture Peter Walker on Gamlingay wood
April 30 - CNHS survey of Grantchester Meadows
May 4 - CNHS lecture, Jonathan Shanklin on CNHS Field studies
May 6 - CPS Dawn chorus at Coton Countryside Reserve
May 7 - CNHS excursion to Coe Fen/Grantchester
May 7 - CRT Cowslip Day at Lark Rise Farm, Barton
May 12 - CWT Bats & nightingales at Milton Country Park
May 20 - CWT Dawn chorus at Fulbourn Fen
May 25 - CNHS survey of Grantchester Meadows
June 1 - CNHS excursion to Paxton Pits
June 1 - Birdlife lecture by Graeme Gibson
June 3 - Thanksgiving service for Max Walters, Grantchester
June 4 - CWT walk round Lime Kiln Close and West Pit
June 10 - CRT open day at Lark Rise Farm, Barton
June 11 - CPS tea & walk at Coton
June 15 - CNHS/CPS visit to Coton Countryside Reserve
June 10 to 18 - Cambridge Environment Week
June 16 - Lecture by Oliver Rackham
June 17 & 18 - CNHS Conversazione
June 22 - CNHS survey of Grantchester Meadows
June 19 to 25 - National Insect Week
June 23 - Conservation BBQ at Wandlebury, 6pm
June 24 - CWT punt trip
June 25 - MMC foray to Orwell Pit, 10:30
June 28 - Ely Diocese environmental churchyard walk round St Andrew's church, Chesterton, 7pm
June 29 - CNHS excursion to Coldham's Common
July 2 - CNHS summer picnic
July 5 - CPS practical conservation event at Coton
July 18 - Lecture "Gilbert White and the Natural Theology of Selbourne" by Nigel Cooper
July 20 - CNHS survey of Grantchester Meadows (provisionally by punt, 2pm)
July 20 - CPBRC guided walk of Barnwell East LNR, 7pm
July 27 - CPBRC Survey techniques workshop, Byron's Pool, 7pm
August 6 - Littleport country show
August 24 - CPS Bat evening at Coton, Wheatcases Barn, 10pm
August 27 - CNHS survey of Grantchester Meadows
September 2 - Tina & Toby's wedding day
September 3 - CPBRC Family wildlife day, Milton Country Park
September 21 - CNHS Council meeting
September 23 - National Moth night
September 24 - CNHS survey of Grantchester Meadows
September 28 - ARU Societies Fair
September 28 - CWT talk on The Great Bustard
October 1 - CPS Guided walk at Coton - meet at the Plough at 10am
October 3 & 4 - CUSU Societies Fair (Kelsey Kerridge)
October 7 - WT AGM, Peterborough
October 8 - LNR autumn festival at Nine Wells, 1pm - 4pm
October 10 - CPS AGM St John the Evangelist Church Hall, Hills Road, 7pm
October 13 - CNHS talk on Fungi
October 14 - CNHS fungal foray in the Botanic Gardens
October 15 - CNHS  survey of Grantchester Meadows for fungi
October 22 - Apple day at the Botanic Garden
October 26 - CWT talk on The Altai Mountains and Snow Leopards
October 29 - Feed the Birds at Milton Country Park
October 29 - Melbourn Mushroom Club exhibition, Masonic Hall, Jepps Lane, Royston
November 2 - CNHS talk on floral difference between Cambridge and the north
November 9 - CNHS visit to the University Observatory
November 16 - CNHS talk on the Churchyard conservation
November 23 - CNHS talk on the Darwin Correspondence
November 26 - CPS Tree planting at Coton, 11am
November 30 - CWT talk on homes for invertebrates
December 2 - Essex field club annual Exhibition, Chelmsford
December 7 - CNHS Presidential address on Honey Bees, and Christmas dinner

Abbreviations: 
APU - APU student Wildlife Society
CWT - Cambridge city group of the Wildlife Trust
CoWT - Cottenham local group of the Wildlife Trust
SWT - Swavesey local group of the Wildlife Trust
CPS - Cambridge Preservation Society Coton Countryside Park - Contact Vince Lea for details
SS - Cambridge Sustainable City events
LNR - Local Nature Reserve
SCI - Cambridge University Scientific Society
MMC - Melbourn Mushroom Club