Past Events 2015

See current diary for list of abbreviations

January 1 – CNHS field study – Coe Fen
January 1 – CPPF Guided walk at Coton
January 8 – CCF Annual Symposium
January 10 – CLG meeting at Monks Wood
January 13 – CNHS Council meeting
January 18 – CBG excursion to Gayton Hall, Norfolk
January 24 – 25 – RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
January 25 – Seedy Sunday at Trumpington
January 26 – Friends of Wandlebury meeting at Stapleford
January 28 – CCF Seminar Robyn Veal on Where did plant diversity and sustainability begin? Arboriculture in the ancient Roman world
January 28 – CWT talk, Brian Eversham on Plants and insects
January 31 – CBG excursion to Barnwell and Barnwell Wold, Northants
February 4 – CCF Seminar, Zoe Davies on Biodiversity and the Feel Good Factor
February 5 – CNHS talk, Owen Mountford on Putting the flowers of Fenland on the map
February 7 – CLG meeting at Madingley
February 12 – CNHS talk Pepe Clark on Communities, conservation and climate change in the Pacific Islands
February 13 – CBC talk, Chris Hewson on Tales of the unexpected – new insights from tracking our Afro-Palaearctic migrants
February 15 – CBG excursion to Newmarket area
February 16 – ARUWS talk, Peter Brown on Alien invasive animals
February 19 – CNHS talk, Chiyedza Heri on African natural products
February 19 – Project Wild Thing film screening at Orchard Community Centre 
February 22 – CNHS field study – Coe Fen monads
February 25 – CWT talk, Matt Wilkinson on Spiders
February 28 – CBG excursion to Orwell & clunch pit
March 3 – Memorial service for Oliver Rackham
March 5 – CNHS talk, Peter Grubb on Scrub clearance and grassland restoration
March 13 – CBC AGM & talk, Chris Collins on Guyana – South America’s hidden gem
March 13 – Play at Stapleford Granary John Muir: Rhapsody in Green
March 15 – CBG excursion to Perry West and Ash woods
March 19 – CNHS talk, Peter Payne on The flora (& the lizards) of the Canary Islands, the Galapagos of the Atlantic Ocean
March 9 – 22 –
Cambridge Science Festival.
March 20 – Partial solar eclipse
March 21 – 22 – CPPF Science days at Wandlebury
March 25 – CWT talk, Richard Preece on Snails and slugs
March 24 – 26 – Student Conference on conservation science
March 26 – Cam Valley Forum AGM, Trumpington
March 28 – CBG excursion to Devils Ditch
March 29 – CNHS field study – Coe Fen
April 9 – CNHS talk, Nicola Williamson on 44 million of our birds are missing
April 11 – CCF Garden Wildlife Day at Wandlebury
April 16 – CNHS AGM and Presidential Address on Garden Ecology
April 17 –  CCF walk round Hayley Wood in memory of Oliver Rackham
April 21 – CNHS Council meeting
April 22 – FRRFD AGM, Fulbourn
April 26 – CNHS field study – Coe Fen
April 29 – CWT talk Jamie Gundry on Wildlife Photography
April 30 – CFG meeting, Kingston Wood
May 2 – Histon Road cemetery walks 10am (birds), 11am (bugs), 12am (plants)
May 9 – CWT walk at Over Railway Cutting
May 9 – Milton Country Park AGM and talk on Orchards by Joanna Crosby
May 9 – 10 – Cathy Parker exhibiting at Tuddenham St Mary
May 14 – CNHS Nature in my neighbourhood – ARU campus
May 19 – CNHS Council meeting
May 21 – CNHS field study – Coe Fen
May 23 – CPPF Bioblitz at Wandlebury
May 27 – CWT evening walk to find bats at Byron’s Pool
May 27 – CPPF Spring walk at Coton
May 28 – CFG meeting near Isleham
May 29 – St Benets nature walk
May 1 – 31 – The Great British Bee Count
June 7 – CPPF Wildflowers at Wandlebury
June 12 – 13 – CNHS Conversazione
June 12 – 13 – Bioblitz in the Botanic Garden
June 13 – CWT walk in Cambourne Country Park
June 14 – Morning nature walks in Histon Road cemetery
June 15 – FoCHB AGM
June 18 – CNHS field study – Coe Fen
June 21 – CFG meeting at  Ashwell
June 21 – CPPF Midsummer walk at Coton
May 7 – June 24 – Wildflower painting exhibition at Clare Hall
June 24 – CWT evening walk to look at chalk grassland flowers in East Pit
June 25 – CNHS visit to Wandlebury
June 28 – SCFG visit to Waresley Wood
July 2 – CNHS Nature in my neighbourhood – Riverside
July 3 – 4 – Wild Weekend in Nightingale Road recreation ground
July 3 – 4 – Ely Wildspace Bioblitz
July 8 – Cam Valley Forum walk along Cherry Hinton Brook
July 11 – CWT walk to Fordham Woods
July 14 – CPPF Summer walk at Coton
July 16 – CNHS field study – Coe Fen
July 18 – CFG meeting, Wisbech
July 18 – CPPF Open Day at Wandlebury
July – Weekends – Cambridge Open Studios
July 29 – CWT East Pit glow-worm survey
July 17 – August 9 – Big Butterfly Count
August 6 – CNHS visit to Wandlebury
August 8 – CWT walk to Fulbourn Fen and Fleam Dyke
August 9 – CFG meeting, Borley Wood
August 20  – CNHS field study – Coe Fen
August 26 – CWT evening bat walk at Paradise LNR
August 29 – WT bat walk at Cambourne
September 8 – CNHS Council meeting
September 12 – CCF camera trapping at Wandlebury
September 17 – CFG meeting near Littleport
September 21 – CCF Autumn Symposium on People and Nature
September 27 – CNHS field study (lichens) – Coe Fen
September 28 – Total lunar eclipse
September 30 – CWT talk, Malcolm Ausden on Helping wildlife cope with climate change
October 3 – CFG meeting, Soham Mere
October 8 – CNHS talk, Richard Dowsett on The history and management of Hayley Wood
October 9 – CBC talk, The Lady of the Reeds
October 11 – National Fungus Day at the Botanic Garden
October 15 – CNHS talk, Jonathan Shanklin on a talk selected by the audience
October 17 – CBG excursion to Kingfisher’s Bridge
October 17 – CPPF Fungal Foray at Wandlebury
October 17 – Big Biology Day
October 21 – CCF seminar, Tony Martin on Invasive alien species on islands: problems and solutions.  
October 22 – CNHS talk, Helen Roy on Non-native species: the good, the bad and the ugly
October 24 – CNHS Fungal Foray to Botanic Garden
October 24 – CPPF Autumn walk at Coton
October 25 – CNHS field study (fungi) – Coe Fen
October 26 – CPS talk, Nick Butterfield on The origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere
October 28 – CWT talk, Ed Turner on Conserving rainforest biodiversity
November 1 – CBG excursion to Little Bendysh Woods
November 4 – BioSoc talk, Ottline Leyser on Thinking without a brain: Auxin and the self-organisation of plant form
November 4 – CUWCS debate on This house believes that some species should be allowed to go extinct
November 4 – British insects identification workshop at ARU
November 5 – CNHS talk, Robin Pellew on Wandlebury: People, Nature and Heritage
November 9 – CGC talk, Simon Kelly on The Geology of Greenland
November 9 – CCF gig
November 10 – BSA SciBar talks on Nature Reserves and Volcanoes
November 11 – BioSoc talk, John Hutchinson on The evolutionary struggles of giant land animals against gravity
November 12 – CNHS talk, Bob Jarman on Agricultural trials and wildlife
November 13 – CBC talk, Nick Davies on Cuckoo – cheating by nature
November 14 – CBG excursion to Little Paxton Pits
November 14 – CCF work party in Hayley Wood
November 19 – CNHS talk, Bill Amos on The pleasures of fungal forays
November 22 – CNHS field study (bryophytes) – Coe Fen
November 22 – CLG excursion to Monk’s Wood
November 23 – showing of Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’ film at the Cambridge Picturehouse.  
November 24 – a repeat insect identification workshop at ARU.  
November 25 – BioSoc talk, Tim Lenton on Revolutions that made the Earth
November 25 – CWT talk, Gabrielle Davidson on The wild world of corvids: understanding behaviour and cognition
November 29 – CBG excursion to Cambourne
December 2 – BioSoc talk, Ross Piper on animal diversity and modern-day exploration
December 3 – CNHS workshop, Mark Hill (and others) on The Natural History of Cambridge
December 5 – CPPF Winter tree identification at Wandlebury
December 10 – CNHS seasonal social at The Hopbine
December 12 – CBG excursion to Whittlesey Mere
December 12 – CLG excursion to Steeple Morden
December 27 – CBG excursion to Thorney – Postponed