See current diary for list of abbreviations

January 1 – CPPF Guided walk at Coton CR
January 2 – CNHS field study – Coldhams Common
January 9 – CGS talk, Gill Mallett on Gemology and geology
January 14 – CBG excursion to Hexton (Herts)
January 14 – CPPF Hedge laying at Wandlebury
January 17 – CNHS Council Meeting
January 21 – CPPF Hedge laying at Wandlebury
January 25 – CWT talk, Vince Lea on Birds of Cambridgeshire
January 28 – CPPF Copicing at Wandlebury
January 28 – 29 – RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
January 29 – CBG excursion to Gamsey and Riddy Woods
February 2 – CNHS talk, Ed Turner on Oil Palm – good crop/bad crop ?
February 9 – CNHS talk, Brian Eversham on A review of 2016: wildlife and more.
February 11 – CBG excursion to Devil’s Dyke
February 11 – CLG excursion to Doddington
February 13 – CGS talk, Pat Doody on The Fens – that sinking feeling
February 14 – Tropical Forests and Climate Change: Biological and Anthropological Perspectives meeting
February 16 – CNHS talk, Paul Hoxey on Cacti of Peru
February 23 – CWT talk, Sue Wells and Monica Frisch on Managing Cherry Hinton Brook (NB Thursday)
February 26 – CBG excursion to East Anglia
March 2 – CNHS talk, Chris Donnelly &  Reg Nicholls on Chalk, clunch and life on the edge
March 5 – CNHS field study – Coldhams Common
March 7 – CUNS talk, Henry Disney on The importance of taxonomy
March 9 – CNHS talk, Ian Lorman on Protecting Trees in South Cambridgeshire
March 10 – Colloquium on Badger culling science at the Cambridge Union contact Mary 07719 020858
March 11 – CBG excursion to Kimbolton
March 13 – CGS talk, Naomi Stevenson on Life in the Oxford Clay sea
March 16 – CNHS talk, Ken McNamara on First footsteps: the colonisation of land
March 23 – CNHS talk, Duncan MacKay on Adventures in the Arctic
March 26 – CBG excursion to Girton College
March 26 – CPPF Science day at Wandlebury
March 29 – CWT talk, Henry Stanier on Developments at the Great Fen project
March 31 – April 2 – Mammal Society conference
April 1 – CVF Floating Pennywort clear-up on the Cam
April 1 – FoCB work on Cherry Hinton Brook
April 2 – CNHS field study – Coldhams Common
April 6 – CNHS AGM and Presidential Address from Mark Hill
April 9 – CBG excursion Weston Colville and Lower Wood
April 10 – CGS talk, Susanne Schwenzer on Curiosity on Mars – exploring through the eyes of a rover
April 11 – CNHS Council Meeting
April 22 – Earth Optimism Day at the DAB
April 26 – CWT talk, Christine Newell on Madagascar: Land of Lemurs (and much else besides!)
April 27 – CFG excursion to Stetchworth woods
May 4 – CNHS field study – Coldhams Common
May 5 – Fulbourn Forum AGM, with talk by Steve Boreham on Unseen Fulbourn – the geology beneath your feet
May 7 – CPPF Spring wild flowers at Wandlebury
May 8 – CGS talk, Clement Uguna on Gas resources of the Upper Bowland Shale
May 10 – CNHS visit to Magog Down
May 13 – CFG excursion to Soham meadows
May 13 – CPPF grasses for beginners at Wandlebury
May 20 – CPPF Tree identification for beginners at Wandlebury
May 30 – CNHS Nature in my neighbourhood walk around Milton (detached) (NB Tuesday)
May 31 – CWT Bat walk at Bryon’s Pool
June 11 – CPPF Grasses of Wandlebury
June 12 – CGS talk, Steve Boreham on Tales from the Fen Edge: past environments – peat, marl and mud
June 15 – CNHS field study – Coldhams Common
June 16 – 17 – CNHS Conversazione
June 18 – CFG excursion to Stow-cum-Quy Fen
June 20 – RSPB Centre for Conservation Science – Annual Lecture and Awards
June 21 – CNHS Nature in my neighbourhood walk around Chesterton
June 25 – CPPF Plants of Wandlebury
June 26 – FoCB AGM
June 28 – CWT walk at East Pit
July 5 – CNHS visit to Wandlebury
July 8 – CWT walk round Orwell Clunch Pit
July 15 – CFG excursion to Ely pits
July 20 – CNHS field study – Coldhams Common
July 15 – 23 – Dragonfly Week
July 26 – CWT Glow-worm survey at East Pit
August 2 – CNHS visit to Magog Down
August 16 – CWT walk around NT Burwell Fen
August 17 – CFG excursion to RSPB Fowlmere
August 22 – CPARG talk, Noel Thomas on Herper Chronicles: Of Kings and Dragons
August 27 – CNHS field study – Coldhams Common
August 30 – CWT Bat walk at Paradise
September 6 – CNHS Council meeting
September 10 – FRRFD walk from Balsham
September 10 – CPPF wildflower walk at Wandlebury
September 11 – CGC talk, Peter Woods on The richest and largest known polyhalite deposit in the world?
September 16 – CFG excursion to Chippenham Fen
September 17 – CNHS field study – Coldhams Common – Lichens
September 19 – FFI AGM and presentation A cause without end ? What does ‘successful’ conservation look like ?
September 27 – CWT talk, The NatHistCam project
October 5 – Botanic Garden annual lecture, Sandra Knapp on Dreams for dinner – a natural history of nightshades
October 7 – BBS AGM at British Antarctic Survey
October 8 – BBS excursion to Chippenham Fen
October 8 – UK Fungus day
October 9 – CGC talk, Naomi Stevenson on Crystal Palace: The first Jurassic Park
October 12 – CNHS talk, Frances Dipper on Britain’s hidden marine life
October 14 – CFG excursion to Sutton
October 14 – CPPF Fungal Foray at Wandlebury
October 19 – CNHS talk, Jason Peters on Lost forests of Huntingdonshire
October 21 – CBG excursion to Cherry Hinton
October 25 – CWT talk, Nick Owens and Rosie Earwaker on Bees of the CU Botanic Garden
October 28 – CNHS fungal foray to the Botanic Garden
October 29 – CNHS field study – Coldhams Common – Fungi
November 2 – CNHS talk, Gwenda Kyd on Plants and their uses (medicinal and otherwise)
November 5 – CBG excursion to Swineshead
November 9 – CNHS talk, Robert Day on Shepreth hedgehog hospital
November 11 – CLG visit to Fen Ditton
November 13 – CGC talk, Peter Friend on Stories from the chalky Fen Edge of Cambridgeshire
November 16 – CNHS talk, Harriet Allen on Origins of Mediterranean flora
November 18 – CBG excursion to Roswell Pits
November 18 – CGC conference: Geo-East: The Ice (and after) in the  Eastern Counties
November 18 – CCF work party in Hayley Wood
November 19 – CLG visit to Ascension cemetery, Cambridge
November 23 – CNHS talk, Stephen Allain on Amphibian conservation and midwife toads in Cambridge
November 23 – BioSoc talk, Darren Naish on Hunting Monsters
November 26 – CNHS field study – Coldhams Common – Bryophytes
November 27 – BioSoc talk, Nick Lane on Energy & Matter at the Origin of Life
November 27 – Pembroke College talk, Joshua Harris on Wildlife Photography
November 29 -CWT talk, Matt Lowe on Reopening of the University Museum of Zoology
November 29 – CCF work party, Orchard pruning at Coton Countryside Reserve
December 3 – CBG excursion to Devil’s Ditch
December 7 – CNHS talk, Louise Bacon on Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation.   Plus social
December 9 – CLG visit to Fleam Dyke
December 11 – CGC talk, David Norbury on Triumphs and disasters in practical engineering geology
December 11 – CCF Christmas party
December 13 – CPPF work party, Woods and trees at Coton Countryside Reserve
December 16 – CBG excursion to Audley End
December 28 – CBG excursion to Huntingdonshire fenland