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Programme for 2010 – see below for the indoor and outdoor meetings respectively.
The Society was formed on 2nd December 1963 and is based on the administrative district of Ryedale in North Yorkshire. It is responsible for almost 1200 one-kilometre squares with Kirkbymoorside at an approximate centre. Our area is roughly defined by the northern watershed running from Black Hambleton to Saltersgate; the Whitby to Thornton-le-Dale road to the east and the drove road along the edge of the Hambleton Hills to the west. Our southern boundary is less easy to describe but generally includes the Howardian Hills as far as Malton and the Kirkham Gorge, following the 70 grid line.
There are approximately 60 members and the Society has seven indoor meetings, usually on the third Tuesday of the month in Kirkbymoorside, and at least four outdoor trips during the year. New members are always welcome (please contact the Secretary, Tom Denney, or just come to one of our meetings).
We publish Newsletters, annually in recent years. Dr. Michael Thompson has recently donated two bound volumes of the newsletters 1998-2004 and 2005-2008 to the archives of the Ryedale Folk Museum. They are now available for reading in Ryedale Folk Museum library. We would like to thank Michael for this generous donation.
We are affiliated to the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union (YNU), and have a list of YNU Field Excursions.
Our programme for 2010 is:
| January 19th | Recorders’ Reports | Ryenats Recorders |
| February 16th | An Introduction to Bee Keeping Joint Meeting with Ryedale Beekeepers’ Association |
Tony Jefferson |
| March 16th | Living on the Edge – Life in the intertidal zone | Dr Sue Hull |
| April 20th | Shetland Otters Joint Meeting with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust |
Gordon Woodroffe |
| October 19th | Private Lives | Phil Prosser |
| November 16th | A Batty Film and the AGM | Peter Smithson |
| December 14th | Migration | Jim Pewtress |
| January 18th 2011 | Recorders’ Reports |
Ryenats Recorders |
Indoor meetings are held in the Methodist Hall, Kirkbymoorside, at 7:30pm.
Unless advised otherwise all meetings are on Saturdays
Please bring a packed lunch for all-day meetings.
| May 1st | Dawn Chorus 5am Meet Cawthorne Carpark SE 783897 |
Tom Denney |
| May 22nd | Early Summer Flowers at Rievaulx 11am Meeting point Rievaulx Terrace (entrance gate) SE 583852 |
Nan Sykes & Nick Fraser |
| June 19th | Exploring Sleightholmedale 11am Meet on the Avenue SE 670885 |
Mrs R. James |
| July 3rd | Grasses of the moorland edge 7pm Meet Sykes House SE 664917 |
Gill Smith |
| July 31st | Exploring the inter tidal zone, Filey 11am Meet at the entrance to North Cliff Country Park, Filey |
Dr Sue Hull |
| September 25th | Visit to RSPB Reserve at Saltholme, Teesmouth Car Share from Kirkbymoorside at 9.45am |
Jim Pewtress |
| October 16th | Fungi Foray Duncombe Park 11am Meet at Park gates in Helmsley SE 612836 |
Rhona Sutherland |
For further details please contact
Tom Denney or Gill Smith.
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A Programme and Newsletter are available from the Secretary: Tom Denney, Sykes House, Rudland,Fadmoor, York or email Tom Denney or Gill Smith |
YNU Field Excursions 2010
For further details see http://www.ynu.org.uk/review2/events |
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