Ryedale Natural History Society
Ryedale Natural History Society is based in Kirkbymoorside about 25 miles north of York, and holds indoor meetings in winter and runs field outings through the summer.
This site contains the following, and you will find many interesting articles in the Newsletters::
- Record 2010 sightings online Record species seen in Ryedale. – see the 2009 records
- Club News, Meetings etc. with Programme for 2010
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Recent sightings:
Spotted flycatchers nesting
Gundale and Sievedale trips, July 2009,
Roe deer fawn June 2009, Fly & Burnt-tip orchids June 2009,
Lesser twayblade May 2009,
Early Eristalis hoverfly Feb 2009;
Waxwings Jan 2009,
Recent bird sightings; Pink-footed geese
- Annual Newsletter for 2009 (2008 Reports) Previous years’ newsletters below
- Reports of 2009 trips: Appleton Woods, Riccaldale bluebells, Hawnby spring migrants, Mugdale Botanical Recording,
Robin Hood’s Bay, Fungus Foray at Yearsley
- Reports of 2008 trips: Manor Vale (Dawn Chorus), Rosedale (Ring Ouzels), Forge Valley, Appleton, Nunnington (Daubenton’s bats), Moth trapping, Gilling Fungus Foray
- Ring Ouzel Report for 2008 and for 2009 by K.S. Hutchinson & V. Fairbrother
- Brief Reports of “plant-finding” trips.
- Wildlife records from the Gilling area Current year’s records (in progress)
- Birds of the area
- Bird Populations in a North Yorkshire Woodland
- Wild Flowers including Pictures and Interactive Distribution Maps
- “PlantFinder” list logger – with common and Latin names
- Lists of Species
- Search for the Green-winged Orchids
- Report of halo display 9 February 2001
- Climate Records for 2002, 2001,2000 and 1999
- Western Gorse or Common Gorse?
- Willowherb ID key
- Links to other Natural History sites
Newsletters and Trips from previous years
Annual Newsletters for 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001,
2000, 1999, and 1998
Reports of 2008 trips: Manor Vale (Dawn Chorus), Rosedale (Ring Ouzels), Forge Valley, Appleton, Nunnington (Daubenton’s bats), Moth trapping, Gilling Fungus Foray
Reports of 2007 trips: Lowna, Chafer Wood, Jeffry Bog, Nunnington, Garbutt Wood, Beadlam Rigg/Rollgate Bank, North Cave, Sandsend
Reports of 2006 trips: Birdsong, Skipwith Common, Botany Workshop, Costa Beck, Spurn Point
Reports of 2005 trips: Rievaulx, Shunner Howe, Upper Bransdale, Wykeham Moor (Fungi)
Reports of 2004 trips: Spaunton Moor, Puffin Cruise,
Wharram and Fordon, Lichens at Bransdale, Castle Howard Arboretum
Reports of 2003 trips: Bransdale, Harome,
Pry Rigg, Castle Howard (Bats),
Wheldrake Ings, Fungus Foray
at Rudland
Reports of 2002 trips: Eastmoors, Rudland,
High Mowthorpe, Terrington
Reports of 2001 trips: Filey; Hutton
Buscel
Reports of 2000 trips: Pry Rigg; Oldstead
(YNU VC62); High Batts; Ellerburn;
Tophill Low; Cropton forest Fungus
Foray
Reports of 1999 trips: Skipwith Common; Kilburn;
Burniston
Reports of 1998 trips: Bempton Cliffs; Howardian Hills;
Malham Tarn; Ladhill Gill, Hawnby; Riccaldale Fungus Foray
Lists of meetings for previous years
Secretary: Tom Denney, Sykes House, Rudland, Kirkbymoorside, York.
For more information please email Tom Denney or Jim Pewtress or Gill Smith.
© Ryedale Natural History Society 1998-2009.
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