Keith Wimbush will guide us round the RSPB reserve at Bempton. Meet in the RSPB car park at 09.30 ( TA 19744 73904, sprays.crypt.variation ). Please let Keith know if you are attending. We will try and car share where practical.
We will have a look and see what Nightjar activity we can find in the depths of Langdale Forest. Meet at the Forest entrance beyond the Scout Hut ( SE 92774 92567 glossed.blues.intruding ) at 20.15. Please let Nick Gibbons know if you are attending and we will share cars where possible. Note we will be going through several locked forest gates so we will have to all arrive and leave together unless you are a registered key holder.
We will have a get together as a social and also to see the bats, particularly Daubenton’s, feeding on the Mere. Bring something to eat that can be shared and anything you fancy to drink plus a chair.
Meet at the carpark at the north end of Seamer Road Mere at 2pm and we will do the circuit of the Mere and see what we can find. Leader Louise Thompson.
Join Ginny Leeming for some rock pooling at Crook Ness Meet at the Crook Ness car park at 9.30. The car park is quite small so car sharing if possible. Wear suitable clothing and bring something to collect samples in.
Robert Weatherley has requested some bat data on this proposed LNR. We will carry out a point survey of the site using as many suitable points as possible, hopefully at least 5 covering the open grassland the woodland and also the cut itself. Please let Nick Gibbons know if you are interested in taking part. We will be looking to make sure everyone has a ‘buddy’, especially in the woodland and cut areas, so it is a chance to learn a little about bats even if you do not have a suitable detector.
Our second recorders meeting. Some of the Nats recorders will be bringing us up to date on what has been going on in their respective groups.
The well known ornithologist Mark Pearson will talk on his migration studies.
Our local Whitby Naturalist Wendy English will give us a talk on Plants.