Past Events 2014

See current diary for list of abbreviations

January 1 – CNHS field study – Coton Footpath
January 1 – CPPF walk at Coton
January 4 – CBG excursion to Lord’s Bridge CLG joining in
January 14 – CNHS Council Meeting
January 19 – CBG excursion to Quy Fen
January 19 – Seedy Sunday at Trumpington Village Hall
January 20 – CCF talk, IUCN Ecosystem red listing
January 23 – CNHS talk, Steve Boreham on A view from Nine Wells
January 25 – Cambridge Climate & Sustainability Forum
January 25 – 26 – RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
January 27 – CUNS talk, Kevin Hand on the Wildlife of the Ethiopian Highlands
January 28 – Sci Soc talk, Sue Hartley on Grasses bite back!  The role of silicon-based defences in the interactions between plants and herbivores
January 29 – CWT AGM and talk, Brian Eversham on The Future of Natural History
February 1 – CBG joint excursion to Thetford Heath
February 1 – CLG meeting to Monk’s Wood
February 5 – Bourn Brook open meeting, Bourn, 7pm
February 6 – CNHS talk, John Parker on Five weeks that changed the world: Darwin and the Galapagos
February 8 – CPPF conservation tasks at Coton CR
February 13 –  CNHS talk, Ali Ashby on A brief history of fungi on plants
February 16 – CBG excursion to Devil’s Ditch
February 18 – Chesterton talk on Logan’s Meadow, 7:30pm
February 20 – CNHS talk, Monica Frisch and Charles Turner on Wildlife and wildflowers of Cyprus
February 26 – CWT talk, Helen Scales on Conserving Planet Ocean
March 1 – CBG excursion to Eynesbury
March 2 – Lichen group visit to Longstowe (10am)
March 3 – BioSoc talk, Nick Lane on Energetic constraints on the evolution of life
March 6 – CNHS visit to the Cambridge University Herbarium
March 6 – CUPS talk, Tim Palmer on Climate change in a chaotic world: Just how certain can we be ?
March 11 – CUSS lunchtime talk, Simon Conway Morris on Animal evolution half-a-billion years ago
March 12 – FRRFD AGM, Fulbourn
March 13 – CNHS talk, Alan Bowley on The Great Fen – out of the past and into the future
March 16 – CBG excursion to Great Staughton
March 20 – CNHS talk, Alex Dittrich on Insect biodiversity in Cambridge – rare species in our urban meadows
March 22 – CPPF Science – Structures and Patterns at Wandlebury
March 26 – CWT talk, Peter Holden on Born to Travel – the story of bird migration
March 29 – CBG excursion to Fenstanton
March 30 – CNHS field study – Coton Footpath
April 3 – CNHS talk, Ken McNamara on The age of the collector: the founding and development of the Woodwardian and Sedgwick Museums
April 7 – Cam Valley Forum AGM
April 7 – The Hunter (Tasmanian Tigers) on at the Arts
April 10 – CNHS AGM and Presidential Address
April 13 – CBG excursion to Wicken Fen
April 15 – CNHS Council meeting
April 22 – CCF talk, Sally Francis on The history of Saffron in England
April 24 – Society of Biology event Contempory Research in Plant Sciences
April 26 – CFG excursion, Waresley & Gransden Woods
April 27 – CNHS field study – Coton Footpath
April 29 – June 12 – Open your Mind learning course at Chesterton with Brian Eversham
April 30 – CWT Lynn Dicks on Wild pollinators: what’s happening to them and why should we care?
May 7 – CCF lecture on The use of conservation drones for monitoring wildlife and its habitat
May 9 – CBC talk by Peter Bradley on The Lodge – Past and Future
May 10 – CWT walk in Hardwick Wood with Vince Lea, 2pm
May 13 – CNHS Council meeting
May 15 – CNHS excursion, Nightingale Avenue Recreation Ground
May 17 – Friend of Milton Country Park AGM and talk by David Chandler on Dragons at Milton Country Park, 2:30pm
May 17 – Festival of Plants at Cambridge Botanic Garden
May 21 – CPPF 10th Anniversary events at Coton
May 24 – CPPF Reptiles and amphibians at Wandlebury
May 28 – CPPF Bees and wasps at Wandlebury
May 28 – CWT bat walk at Byron’s Pool
May 29 – CNHS field study – Coton Footpath
May 31 – CFG excursion to Eversden
June 1 – Cambridgeshire County Show at Wimpole Hall
June 12 – CFG excursion to Chippenham
June 13 – 14 – CNHS Conversazione
June 14 – CWT walk at Fulbourn Fen, 2pm
June 15 – WRNH Seashore meeting, West Runton
June 18 – CPPF History of Wandlebury
June 19 – CNHS Nature in my Neighbourhood – The Kite
June 22 – CPPF Midsummer walk at Coton
June 25 – CCF Summer Symposium on Ecological Restoration
June 25 – CWT walk round East Pit
June 26 – CNHS field study – Coton Footpath
June 27 – 28 – Cambridge Bioblitz, Madingley Hall
June 28 – FRRFD Summer Party
June 29 – Opening of the Swift Tower at Trumpington Community Orchard, 11:00 -13:00
June 23 – 29 – National Insect Week
June 29 – RPSNG meeting Devil’s Dyke
July 2 – CPPF History walk at Coton
July 12 – CWT walk at Shepreth L-Moor, 2pm
July 17 – CNHS excursion to Histon Community Orchard
July 20 – CFG excursion to Bourn and Hardwick
July 30 – CWT glow worms and moths at East Pit
July 31 – CNHS field study – Coton Footpath
August 2 – CNHS excursion to Monks Wood
August 7 – CNHS Nature in my neighbourhood – Riverside to Newmarket Road
August 9 – CWT walk on Devils Dyke with Vince Lea, 2pm
August 24 – CFG excursion, Fenland
August 23 – 25 – Fenland Country Fair at Stow cum Quy Park
August 25 – WRNH Seashore meeting, West Runton
August 27 – CWT bat walk at Paradise
August 31 – CNHS field study – Coton Footpath
September 5 – 6 – Young (under 30) Conservationists Conference : A Vision for Nature
September 8 – CGC talk, Sambuddha Misra on Chemical evolution of Cenozoic seawater
September 9 – CNHS Council Meeting
September 13 – CGC Symposium on The Geology and Landscape of the Fen Edge – Cambridgeshire
September 14 – CFG excursion, Fenland
September 14 – CPPF Autumn walk and Hedgerows at Coton
September 21 – CNHS field study – Coton Footpath (Lichens)
September 24 – CWT talk, Terry Moore All about Amphibians
September 27 – CBC Conference ‘Woodland Birds: Habitats, Species and Conservation’, Cottenham
October 4 – CPPF History and Fun Day at Wandlebury
October 7 – 8 – CUSU Societies Fair
October 9 – CNHS talk, Simon Damant on the Wimpole Estate and its wildlife
October 13 – CGC talk, Simon Crowhurst on The wonky wheel of eccentricity: how the Earth’s orbit shaped the Late Pleistocene glaciations
October 16 – CNHS talk, Francine Hughes on The challenges of monitoring and evaluating a wetland restoration project in the UK
October 18 – CBG excursion to Eynesbury & Ouse valley
October 18 – CPPF Conservation Volunteer day at Coton
October 18 – CCF/CPPF dawn to dusk survey at Wandlebury
October 23 – CNHS talk, Val Perrin on Cambridgeshire Orchards and their wildlife
October 25 – CNHS fungal foray to the Botanic Garden
October 25 – CPPF Late Autumn walk and views at Coton
October 26 – CNHS field study – Coton Footpath (Fungi)
October 29 – CWT talk, Henry Stanier on Dormice and their re-introduction to Brampton Wood
November 2 – CBG excursion to near Wisbech
November 6 – CNHS talk, Natalie Lawrence on Tatous and Taiwan Devils: making sense of scaly mammals in the seventeenth century
November 8 – CCF work party, Hayley Wood
November 10 – CGC talk, Katherine Daniels on Processes of injection and transportation of geological fluids within the crust
November 12 – Stokes Society talk, John Carr on Messing with Insects’ Minds: The Sneaky World of Plant Viruses
November 13 – CNHS talk, Vince Lea on Trapping Mink for Water Vole recovery in the upper Cam catchment
November 15 – CBG excursion to Wimpole Hall
November 15 – BNHS conference on Neglected insects in Bedfordshire
November 15 – 16 – CPPF Hedgerows and Hedge laying course
November 19 – CCF seminar, Juliet Vickery on Landscape scale conservation – A bird’s eye view, 5pm Dept of Geography
November 20 – CNHS talk, Christine Newell on In search of the Snow Leopard in Ladakh, in winter
November 22 – CPPF Conservation volunteer day at Coton
November 26 – CWT talk, Peter Walker on Fascinating Fungi
November 30 – CNHS field study – Coton Footpath (Bryophytes)
December 4 – CNHS talk, Simon Parfitt on Hunting for dinner in the ice age
December 8 – CGC talk, Liz Harper on Evolutionary processes in bivalves and brachiopods
December 11 – CNHS social at the Hopbine
December 13 – CBG excursion to Pingle Wood & cutting, Wistow Wood
December 13 – CPPF Winter tree identification at Wandlebury
December 14 – CLG visit to Adams Road and Observatories
December 27 – CWT walk at Ouse Washes with Vince Lea
December 28 – CBG excursion to Fenland