Cambridge Natural History Society.

Diary 2010

January 1 - CNHS Coton Countryside Park survey
January 9 - CBG outing to Short Wood and Southwick Wood
January 10 - CPPF guided walk at Coton
January 18 -  CNHS Council meeting
January 24 - CBG outing to the Breckland
January 27 - CWT talk, William Seal on Wildlife Sounds and Sound Recording
January 30 - CLG visit to Kingston
February 4 - CNHS talk, Martin Baker on Conservation objectives for the BCNP Wildlife Trust
February 11 - CNHS talk, Ben Buckley on The orang utans of Borneo
February 13 - CBG outing to Great and Little Chishill
February 13 - CPS Birdbox day at Wandlebury
February 18 - CNHS talk, Aaron Savio Lobo on the impact of trawling off the coast of India
February 20 - CLG visit to St Andrew's, Chesterton
February 20 - CPS Orchard planting day at Coton
February 21 - CNHS Coton Countryside Reserve survey
February 24 - CWT talk, Rebecca Smith on Monitoring and Management of the Endangered Cape Mountain Zebra
February 28 - CBG outing to Ditton Park Wood
March 4 - CNHS talk, Andrew Balmford on Saving Ely's Wildspace
March 10 - Science Festival event: The price of extinction: what losing biodiversity costs, 7:15pm Judge Institute
March 11 - CNHS talk, Ben Phalan on Agriculture and biodiversity
March 13 - CBG outing to Brampton Wood
March 18 - CNHS talk, Abby Stancliffe-Vaughan on Aliens in the River Lark
March 8 - 21 - Natural History of Molecules exhibition
March 25 - CNHS talk, Jonathan Shanklin "Marvel at the Moon"
March 25 - CPS consultation meeting on Coton Reserve
March 28 - CNHS Coton Countryside Reserve survey
March 27 - Earth hour: switch your lights off for an hour at 8:30pm. 
March 31 - CWT talk, Richard Todd on Wildlife gardening in a landscape garden
April 15 - CNHS talk, Clive Nuttman on the plight of the humble bee
April 19 - CNHS Council meeting
April 22 - CNHS talk, Cass Bromley on Tardigrades
April 22 - Friends of the Roman Road AGM, Fulbourn
April 24 - CFG visit to Ten Wood
April 25 - CNHS Coton Countryside Reserve survey
April 25 - MMC visit to Hauxton Pits
April 26 - CSAR talk, Claire Spottiswoode on Brood parasitism, 7:30pm, Churchill College
April 28 - CWT talk, Tim Pankhurst on Breckland flora
May 2 - CPPF Dawn Chorus walk at Wandlebury, 4:30am
May 3 - CPPF Guided walk at Coton CR
May 6 - CNHS visit to Logan's Meadow, 6:30pm
May 10 - CNHS Council meeting
May 15 - National Moth Night
May 16 - CNHS visit to Flitwick Moor
May 20 - Swift talk at Ely, 7pm
May 22 - CPPF Tree day at Wandlebury
May 26 - CWT Bat walk at Byron's Pool, 8:45pm
May 27 - CNHS Coton Countryside Reserve survey
May 28 - Hats off to Bats talk and walk at the Leper Chapel, 8pm
May 29 - CFG visit to Isleham
June 9 - Orchid count Thriplow Meadows, 5:30pm
June 11 - Hats off to Bats walk at Kings Hedges, 9:15pm
June 12 - 13  - CNHS Conversazione (AGM June 12)
June 12 - 13 - Dragonfly safaris and course at Wicken Fen
June 13 - Cambridge Biodiversity Fair, Lammas Land
June 16 - Orchid count Fulbourn Fen, 5:30pm
June 17 - Wicken Vision botanical training walk
June 19 - CFG visit to Whitlesey brick pits, 10am
June 23 - Wicken Vision talk, 7:30pm
June 24 - CNHS Coton Countryside Reserve survey
June 12 - 26 - Cambridge Environment Week
June 25 - Ely WT visit to Cherry Hinton chalk pits
June 26 - WT Mini-beasts at East Pit, 1 - 4pm
June 30 - CWT visit to East Pit, 7:30pm.
July 1 - WT Chalk & cheese walk, East Pit (booking required)
July 2 - Hats off to Bats walk at Sheeps Green, 9:15pm
July 2 - 3 - BioBlitz on Coe Fen, 1pm to 1pm
July 3 - Exhibition of roman finds at Litlington church, 10am - 3pm.
July 3 - 4 - Dragonfly safaris and courses at Wicken Fen
July 4 - CNHS visit to Hardwick Wood and Caldecote Meadows
July 5 - U3A visit to East Pit
July 8 - CNHS visit to CUOTC Pit, 6:30pm (names in advance)
July 10 - CFG visit to Chippenham Fen
July 15 - Wicken Vision botanical training walk
July 15 - WT Glow worm walk at East Pit, 8:30pm
July 16 - Hats off to Bats punt, 9pm - fully booked
July 17 - WT Chalk & cheese walk, East Pit (booking required)
July 18 - CNHS visit to RSPB Fen Drayton, 11am, meet at reserve main car park
July 22 - CNHS Coton Countryside Reserve survey
June 19 - July 24 - Wildlife photographer of the year at the Zoology Museum
July 23 - Hats off to Bats punt, 9pm - fully booked
July 24 - 25 - Dragonfly safaris and courses at Wicken Fen
July weekends - Cambridge Open Studios
July 28 - CWT visit to Lime Kiln Close and West Pit, 7:30pm
August 4- 5 - Dragonfly course at Cottenham Community College
August 12 - Wicken Vision botanical training walk
August 14 - 15 - Plum weekend, Somersham, Colne and Bluntisham
August 15 - CNHS visit to Magog Down, 2pm
August 21 - CFG visit to the Ouse Washes, Welney
August 21 - CPPF Plantlore walk at Coton
August 25 - CWT visit to Paradise, 8:00pm
August 28 - Hats off to Bats walk at East Pit, 8pm
August 28 - 30 - Dragonfly safaris at Wicken Fen
August 29 - CNHS Coton Countryside Reserve survey
September 6 - CNHS Council meeting
September 10 - Hats off to Bats walk at Stourbridge Common, 7:30pm
September 11 - CPPF Tree identification at Wandlebury
September 11 - MMC foray to Hitch Wood
September 11 - 12 - Cambridge University Open Weekend
September 12 - CNHS visit to Grimes Graves (£3.00 entry if names in advance for group booking) and Thetford Forest
September 18 - CFG visit to Landbeach Pits
September 26 - CPPF Guided walk at Coton
September 26 - CNHS Coton Countryside Reserve survey (lichens)
September 29 - CWT meeting, Chris Vine on Cambridgeshire Bats
October 2 - CPPF Apple and Orchard day at Wandlebury
October 2 - MMC foray to Two Mile Bottom (Thetford Forest)
October 3 - CPPF Guided walk at Coton
October 7 - CNHS opening talk, Alistair Taylor on Biodiversity
October 14 - CNHS talk, Lynn Dicks on Bee conservation
October 16 - CBG outing to Holme Fen
October 16 - CU Mycological Society Foray to Thetford Forest
October 16 - 17 - Cambridge Bird Club conference
October 18 - CSAR meeting, Brian Ford on "Autumn and Plant Physiology"
October 21 - CNHS talk, Sharon Hearle on Butterfly conservation
October 27 - CWT meeting, Peter Pilbeam on a Night in the life of a Badger
October 27 - Cambridge Festival of Ideas - palaeontological artist Bob Nichols. 
October 30 - CNHS Fungal Foray to the Botanic Gardens
October 31 - CNHS Coton Countryside Reserve Fungal Foray
October 31 - CBG outing to Essex
October 31 - MMC foray to Holme Wood
November 3 - SHNH meeting on John Ray
November 4 - CNHS talk, Peter Walker on Fascinating fungi
November 7 - BBS outing to Wisley
November 11 - CNHS talk, Aaron Savio Lobo on Sea Snakes
November 12 - CBC talk, Andy Cotton on a Day trip to the Farne Islands
November 13 - CBG outing to Upton and Alversey Wood
November 14 - MMC foray to Waresley and Gransden Woods
November 18 - CNHS talk, Beverley Glover on Colour and Iridescence in Plants
November 20 - CNHS excursion to Thetford forest
November 22 - CUMS talk, Sarah Watkinson on Fungi in ecosystem nutrient cycles
November 23 - CUSS talk, David Pyle on Volcanic Eruptions : causes and consequences.  
November 24 - CWT meeting, Cliff Carson on the Natural Level - wildlife management in the Middle Level of the Fens.
November 25 - CCC event "Perspectives on Waste".  
November 26 - CPPF Tree planting at Coton
November 27 - CCF work party, Hayley Wood
November 28 - CNHS/CBG Coton Countryside Reserve survey (mosses and liverworts)
November 30 - CUSS talk Elizabeth Murchison on "Devilish Decline: Infectious Cancer and the Tasmanian Devil"
December 2 - CNHS talk, Julian Bayliss on Discovering new species in Africa
November 27 - December 5
- National Tree Week 
December 9 - CNHS Christmas dinner and social
December 11 - CBG outing to Fleam Dyke
December 21 - Eclipse of the Moon
December 26 - MMC foray to Therfield Heath

Abbreviations: 
BioSoc  - CU Biological Society
CBG - 
Cambridge Bryological Group
CBC - Cambridgeshire Bird Club
CFG - Cambridgeshire Flora Group.  Meetings start at 10am
CLG - Cambridge Lichen Group - contact Louise Bacon at CPBRC.
CPPF -
Cambridge Past, Present & Future (Cambridge Preservation Society) - Contact Caroline Grohler for details.  Booking is usually required
CUMS - CU Mycological Society
CWT - Cambridge city group of the Wildlife Trust
HFFS - Hunts Flora and Fauna Society
SS - Cambridge Sustainable City events
LNR - Local Nature Reserve.  These events may require booking.  Contact Ellis Selway.
CUSS - Cambridge University Scientific Society
MMC - Melbourn Mushroom Club
CUVZS - CU Veterinary  Zoological  Society.
CUPS - CU Physics Society  
SHNH - Society for the History of Natural History