This a Zoom meeting organised by the YNU.

In 2024 the YNU provided a grant to assist 5 Yorkshire field workers attend a workshop organised by Curlew Action. Mary Colwell, its Director, will give a talk about its work and what has been happening in Yorkshire.

Booking will be via the YNU website

https://www.ynu.org.uk/join-the-ynu/shop/shop-categories-listing

A talk by Brian Walker about 50 years of studying May Moss and its importance for both wildlife and climate change.

Jane Pottas will talk about our marine life that, until the last few years the Society had largely not taken much notice of.

Joyce Scott will give us a talk on how to get into lichens. If you have a lens please bring it as there will be a chance to do some hands on viewing.

A chance to hear what the Society’s recorders have been up to in the last 12 months and what new discoveries have been made.

A chance to better understand the local geology that has such an impact on our wildlife environment. Tony Kearsley (retired from Dept. of minerology at Natural History Museum London) will talk about the large variety of rocks that occur in our landscape and how they got there.

Cath Bashforth has had to cry off so tonight we will be ‘feted’ with a Night at the Movies presented by John Hume. Your guess is as good as mine but expect some good photography!

We will have our Annual General Meeting which will be as brief as possible floowed by the Presidential Address.

There has been a big rise in dolphin and whale sighting over the last few years. Stuart Baines will tell us about the common and uncommon cetacean species found off our coast.