Ryedale Natural History Society Meetings 2012

Programme for 2012 – 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, Gill Smith, 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.

INDOOR MEETINGS 2012

January 17th	Recorders’ Reports	Ryenats Recorders
February 21st	tba Joint Meeting with Ryedale Beekeepers’ Association
March 20th	A Natural History of Spiders	Geoff Oxford
April 17th	Life on the Edge – Seabird Cities	Steve Race RSPB
October 16th	Ecology and Climate Change NB: note change of venue to Helmsley Arts Centre	Professor Sir John Lawton FRS
November 20th	AGM plus Coastal Flowers	Chris Wilson
December 18th	Among the Sticks	Brian Walker
January 15th 2013	Recorders’ Reports	Ryenats Recorders

Indoor meetings are held in the Methodist Hall, Kirkbymoorside, at 7:30pm.

OUTDOOR MEETINGS 2012

Please bring a packed lunch for all-day meetings.

March 31st	Morning trip to Nunnington to try to observe otters meet Nunnington Hall car park SE669795 7:00am	Nick Fraser
April 25th	Evening moorland walk around Blakey meet Lion Inn car park, SE679997 - 6:30pm	Ken Hutchinson
May 5th	Dawn chorus meet Spiers House, Cropton SE751908 5:00am	Tom Denney
May 20th	Hawnby Hill (Duke of Burgundy Butterfly) meet Moorgate car park, SE539917 10:00am	Keith Gittens
June 9th	Hutton Common (meeting of Hull Nats) meet Hutton Bank SE 706885 10:00am	tba
June 17th	Foxglove Covert, Catterick (Nature walk) meet Piercy End, Kirkbymoorside 9:30am	Jim Pewtress
June 27th	Evening walk, Bull Ings Lane Cropton (Orchids) meet Cropton High Street SE756889 6.30 - 8.30pm	Gill Smith
July 21st	Cancelled – now joint meeting with YNU: The Howls, The Ings and the Carrs Meet near Haybridge Farm SE979789 10:00am	Mick Carroll and Tim Burkenshaw
August 11th	Strensall Common (Dragonflies) meet car park by cattle grid, Lords Moor Lane, SE649612 - 10:00am	Keith Gittens
September 29th	Rudland, Fungus Foray meet SE660924 - 10.00am	Rhona Sutherland