Cambridge Natural History Society.
Diary 2014
January 1 - CNHS field study - Coton Footpath
January 1 - CPPF walk at Coton
January 4 - CBG excursion to Lord's Bridge CLG joining in
January 14 - CNHS Council Meeting
January 19 - CBG excursion to Quy Fen
January 19 - Seedy Sunday at Trumpington Village Hall
January 20 - CCF talk, IUCN Ecosystem red listing
January 23 - CNHS talk, Steve Boreham on A view from Nine Wells
January 25 - Cambridge Climate & Sustainability Forum
January 25 - 26 - RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
January 27 - CUNS talk, Kevin Hand on the Wildlife of the Ethiopian Highlands
January 28 - Sci Soc talk, Sue Hartley on Grasses bite back! The role of
silicon-based defences in the interactions between plants and herbivores
January 29 - CWT AGM and talk, Brian Eversham on The Future of Natural History
February 1 - CBG joint excursion to Thetford Heath
February 1 - CLG meeting to Monk's Wood
February 5 - Bourn Brook open meeting, Bourn, 7pm
February 6 - CNHS talk, John Parker on Five weeks that changed the world: Darwin and the
Galapagos
February 8 - CPPF conservation tasks at Coton CR
February 13 - CNHS talk, Ali Ashby on A brief history of fungi on plants
February 16 - CBG excursion to Devil's Ditch
February 18 - Chesterton talk on Logan's Meadow, 7:30pm
February 20 - CNHS talk, Monica Frisch and Charles Turner on Wildlife and wildflowers of
Cyprus
February 26 - CWT talk, Helen Scales on Conserving Planet Ocean
March 1 - CBG excursion to Eynesbury
March 2 - Lichen group visit to Longstowe (10am)
March 3 - BioSoc talk, Nick Lane on Energetic constraints on the evolution of
life
March 6 - CNHS visit to the Cambridge University Herbarium
March 6 - CUPS talk, Tim Palmer on Climate change in a chaotic world: Just how certain can
we be ?
March 11 - CUSS lunchtime talk, Simon Conway Morris on Animal evolution half-a-billion
years ago
March 12 - FRRFD AGM, Fulbourn
March 13 - CNHS talk, Alan Bowley on The Great Fen - out of the past and into the future
March 16 - CBG excursion to Great Staughton
March 20 - CNHS talk, Alex Dittrich on Insect biodiversity in Cambridge - rare species in
our urban meadows
March 22 - CPPF Science - Structures and Patterns at Wandlebury
March 26 - CWT talk, Peter Holden on Born to Travel - the story of bird migration
March 29 - CBG excursion to Fenstanton
March 30 - CNHS field study - Coton Footpath
April 3 - CNHS talk, Ken McNamara on The age of the collector: the founding and development of the Woodwardian
and Sedgwick Museums
April 7 - Cam Valley Forum AGM
April 7 - The Hunter (Tasmanian Tigers) on at the Arts
April 10 - CNHS AGM and Presidential Address
April 13 - CBG excursion to Wicken Fen
April 15 - CNHS Council meeting
April 22 - CCF talk, Sally Francis on The history of Saffron in England
April 24 - Society of Biology event Contempory Research in Plant Sciences
April 26 - CFG excursion, Waresley & Gransden Woods
April 27 - CNHS field study - Coton Footpath
April 29 - June 12 - Open your Mind learning course at Chesterton with Brian Eversham
April 30 - CWT Lynn Dicks on Wild pollinators: what's happening to them and why should we
care?
May 7 - CCF lecture on The use of conservation drones for monitoring wildlife and its
habitat
May 9 - CBC talk by Peter Bradley on The Lodge - Past and Future
May 10 - CWT walk in Hardwick Wood with Vince Lea, 2pm
May 13 - CNHS Council meeting
May 15 - CNHS excursion, Nightingale Avenue Recreation Ground
May 17 - Friend of Milton Country Park AGM and talk by David Chandler on Dragons at Milton
Country Park, 2:30pm
May 17 - Festival of Plants at Cambridge Botanic Garden
May 21 - CPPF 10th Anniversary events at Coton
May 24 - CPPF Reptiles and amphibians at Wandlebury
May 28 - CPPF Bees and wasps at Wandlebury
May 28 - CWT bat walk at Byron's Pool
May 29 - CNHS field study - Coton Footpath
May 31 - CFG excursion to Eversden
June 1 - Cambridgeshire County Show at Wimpole Hall
June 12 - CFG excursion to Chippenham
June 13 - 14 - CNHS Conversazione
June 14 - CWT walk at Fulbourn Fen, 2pm
June 15 - WRNH Seashore meeting, West Runton
June 18 - CPPF History of Wandlebury
June 19 - CNHS Nature in my Neighbourhood - The Kite
June 22 - CPPF Midsummer walk at Coton
June 25 - CCF Summer Symposium on Ecological Restoration
June 25 - CWT walk round East Pit
June 26 - CNHS field study - Coton Footpath
June 27 - 28 - Cambridge Bioblitz, Madingley Hall
June 28 - FRRFD Summer Party
June 29 - Opening of the Swift Tower at Trumpington Community Orchard, 11:00 -13:00
June 23 - 29 - National Insect Week
June 29 - RPSNG meeting Devil's Dyke
July 2 - CPPF History walk at Coton
July 12 - CWT walk at Shepreth L-Moor, 2pm
July 17 - CNHS excursion to Histon Community Orchard
July 20 - CFG excursion to Bourn and Hardwick
July 30 - CWT glow worms and moths at East Pit
July 31 - CNHS field study - Coton Footpath
August 2 - CNHS excursion to Monks Wood
August 7 - CNHS Nature in my neighbourhood - Riverside to Newmarket Road
August 9 - CWT walk on Devils Dyke with Vince Lea, 2pm
August 24 - CFG excursion, Fenland
August 23 - 25 - Fenland Country Fair at Stow cum Quy Park
August 25 - WRNH Seashore meeting, West Runton
August 27 - CWT bat walk at Paradise
August 31 - CNHS field study - Coton Footpath
September 5 - 6 - Young (under 30) Conservationists Conference
: A Vision for Nature
September 8 - CGC talk, Sambuddha Misra on Chemical evolution of Cenozoic seawater
September 9 - CNHS Council Meeting
September 13 - CGC Symposium on The Geology and Landscape of the Fen Edge - Cambridgeshire
September 14 - CFG excursion, Fenland
September 14 - CPPF Autumn walk and Hedgerows at Coton
September 21 - CNHS field study - Coton Footpath (Lichens)
September 24 - CWT talk, Terry Moore All about Amphibians
September 27 - CBC Conference 'Woodland Birds: Habitats, Species and Conservation',
Cottenham
October 4 - CPPF History and Fun Day at Wandlebury
October 7 - 8 - CUSU Societies Fair
October 9 - CNHS talk, Simon Damant on the Wimpole Estate and its wildlife
October 13 - CGC talk, Simon Crowhurst on The wonky wheel of eccentricity: how the Earth's
orbit shaped the Late Pleistocene glaciations
October 16 - CNHS talk, Francine Hughes on The challenges of monitoring and
evaluating a wetland restoration project in the UK
October 18 - CBG excursion to Eynesbury & Ouse valley
October 18 - CPPF Conservation Volunteer day at Coton
October 18 - CCF/CPPF dawn to dusk survey at Wandlebury
October 23 - CNHS talk, Val Perrin on Cambridgeshire Orchards and their wildlife
October 25 - CNHS fungal foray to the Botanic Garden
October 25 - CPPF Late Autumn walk and views at Coton
October 26 - CNHS field study - Coton Footpath (Fungi)
October 29 - CWT talk, Henry Stanier on Dormice and their re-introduction to Brampton Wood
November 2 - CBG excursion to near Wisbech
November 6 - CNHS talk, Natalie Lawrence on Tatous and Taiwan Devils: making
sense of scaly mammals in the seventeenth century
November 8 - CCF work party, Hayley Wood
November 10 - CGC talk, Katherine Daniels on Processes of injection and transportation of
geological fluids within the crust
November 12 - Stokes Society talk, John Carr on Messing with Insects' Minds: The Sneaky
World of Plant Viruses
November 13 - CNHS talk, Vince Lea on Trapping Mink for Water Vole recovery in the upper
Cam catchment
November 15 - CBG excursion to Wimpole Hall
November 15 - BNHS conference on Neglected insects in Bedfordshire
November 15 - 16 - CPPF Hedgerows and Hedge laying course
November 19 - CCF seminar, Juliet Vickery on Landscape scale conservation - A bird's eye
view, 5pm Dept of Geography
November 20 - CNHS talk, Christine Newell on In search of the Snow Leopard in Ladakh,
in winter
November 22 - CPPF Conservation volunteer day at Coton
November 26 - CWT talk, Peter Walker on Fascinating Fungi
November 30 - CNHS field study - Coton Footpath (Bryophytes)
December 4 - CNHS talk, Simon Parfitt on Hunting for dinner in the ice age
December 8 - CGC talk, Liz Harper on Evolutionary processes in bivalves and brachiopods
December 11 - CNHS social at the Hopbine
December 13 - CBG excursion to Pingle Wood & cutting, Wistow Wood
December 13 - CPPF Winter tree identification at Wandlebury
December 14 - CLG visit to Adams Road and Observatories
December 27 - CWT walk at Ouse Washes with Vince Lea
December 28 - CBG excursion to Fenland
Abbreviations:
BEE - Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Seminars, 4pm Zoology part II lecture
theatre.
BioSoc - CU Biological Society
CBG -
Cambridge Bryological Group
CBC - Cambridgeshire Bird Club
CCF - Cambridge Conservation Forum
CFG - Cambridgeshire Flora Group. Meetings mostly start at 10am
CGC - Cambridgeshire Geology Club
CLG - Cambridge Lichen Group - contact Louise Bacon.
CPERC - Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Environmental Records Centre
CPPF - Cambridge Past, Present & Future (Cambridge
Preservation Society) - Contact Caroline
Grohler for details. Booking is usually required
CUMS - CU Mycological Society
CUNS - CU Nature Society
CUPS - CU Physics Society
CUSS - Cambridge University Scientific Society
CUVZS - CU Veterinary
Zoological Society.
CWT - Cambridge city group of the Wildlife Trust
FRRFD - Friends of the Roman Road and Fleam Dyke
FoCB - Friends of Cherry Hinton Brook
FoSC - Friends of Stourbridge Common
HFFS - Hunts Flora and Fauna Society
LNR - Local Nature Reserve. These events may require booking..
SCFG - South Cambs Fungus Group
RSPB - Cambridge
RSPB local group
SHNH - Society for the History of Natural History
SS - Cambridge Sustainable City events
WT - other Wildlife Trust events
OLD EVENTS
2004