See current diary for list of abbreviations

January 1 – CNHS field study – Ditton Meadows
January 8 – CGC talk, Simon Crowhurst on Clock of ages: using climate and orbits to tune geological timescales
January 11 – CNHS Council meeting
January 13 – CBG excursion to Elton Park and Elton Furze golf club
January 13 – CLG excursion
January 13 – CCF Keeping Cambridge Special workshop, CMS Wilberforce Road
January 22 – BioSoc talk, Merlin Willcox on Herbal Medicine
January 24 – CCF symposium – How satellite imagery is transforming conservation science
January 27/28 – RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
January 27 – CLG excursion to Teversham
January 28 – CBG excursion to Somersham Country Park and church
January 31 – CWT talk, Brian Eversham on Wildlife on walls
February 1 – CCF annual symposium
February 8 – CNHS Douglas Palmer on Exhibiting Ice Age Cambridge
February 10 – CBG excursion to the organic farm at Wimpole
February 10 – CLG excursion to Newmarket Road cemetery
February 12 – CGC talk, Steve Thompson on A mystical cave in Myanmar
February 15 – CNHS talk, Sandra Chapman on Smuts, bunts and ergots
February 17 – CLG excursion
February 21 – CCF seminar, Dave Goulson on Saving our Bumblebees
February 22 – CNHS talk, Leah Fitzpatrick on This object has been temporarily removed
February 25 – CBG excursion to Thetford BTO site
February 28 – CWT talk, Bob Jarman and Vince Lea on Wintering Blackcaps in Cambridge
March 3 – CLG excursion to Chesterton
March 4 – CNHS field study – Ditton Meadows
March 8 – CNHS talk, Pam Butler on the Importance of seed testing
March 10 – CBG excursion to Gamlingay Heath Plantation
March 11 – East Lakes open day
March 11 – CNHS field study – Ditton Meadows
March 12 – CGS talk, Mike Tuke on Isostasy – the ups and downs of the crust
March 15 – WT walk round Trumpington Meadows
March 15 – CNHS talk, Rob Hawkes on Breckland, birds and conservation
March 18 – CLG visit to Bedford Purlieus
March 22 – WT early morning walk for March Hares on Trumpington Meadows
March 22 – CNHS AGM & Presidential Address, Kevin Hand on Land of Eagles – Albania: from closed nation to wildlife paradise – where next?
March 24 – CFG excursion to Magog Down
March 12 – 25 – Cambridge Science Festival
March 25 – CBG excursion to Plunder & Great Widgham Woods
March 28 – CWT talk, Rob Mungovan on Wild Trout Trust on fish friendly rivers/river management
March 29 – CVF AGM and talk, Catherine Moncrieff on Are we water wise?
April 4 – CPARG AGM
April 6 – 7 – CNHS Conversazione
April 8 – CNHS field study – Ditton Meadows
April 9 – CGS talk, Sergio Teixeira on The geology of Madeira
April 10 – CLG visit to Bedford Purlieus
April 14 – CCF talk, Mark Cocker on Our place: Can we save Britain’s Wildlife
April 15 – CFG excursion to Buff Wood
April 20 – CCF Oliver Rackham Memorial Guided Walk, Hayley Wood
April 14 – 21 – Cambridge Drawing Society Annual Spring Exhibition in the Pitt Building
April 21 – Excursion to the Jurassic of Cambridgeshire
April 25 – CWT talk, Susannah O’Riordan on the Back from the brink project in Rockingham Forest
April 26 – CNHS Council meeting
May 2 – FRRFD AGM and talk, Bill Sutherland on Conservation in a post truth world ?
May 8 – CPPF Wandlebury Wildflowers in Spring
May 9 – CNHS field study – Ditton Meadows
May 10 – CFG excursion to Chippenham Hall
May 11 – RSPB Ouse Fen reed bed safari
May 13 – CFG excursion to Soham Meadows
May 14 – CGS talk, David Norman on Dinosaurs – do they need some relationship counselling ?
May 16 – CWT walk round Fulbourn Fen
May 17 – Cambridgeshire Beekeepers Association talk by Luke Dixon
May 20 – RSPB Ouse Fen reed bed safari
May 23 – CPPF Wandlebury Orchard walk
May 26 – CGS excursion to the Western Plateau
May 30 – CWT walk for Bats at Byrons Pool
June 11 – CGS talk, Franziska Norman on The Mesozoic in your garden !
June 11 – FoCB AGM
June 13 – CNHS visit to Wandlebury
June 13 – CWT walk round Madingley Hall gardens
June 14 – CFG excursion to Sawston Hall
June 14 – CNHS Council meeting
June 14 – 16 – National Moth Night
June 16 – 17 – CPPF Moth nights at Wandlebury
June 18 – Orchard Park bioblitz at 3:30pm
June 19 – Froglife Toad summit in Peterborough
June 20 – CNHS field study – Ditton Meadows
June 20 – CPPF Coton 10th Anniversary walk
June 21 – CFG excursion to Chippenham Fen
June 23 – Grand opening of the Zoology Museum
June 26 – South Newnham Swifts talk by Dick Newell
June 26 – 27 – NW Cambridge Bioblitz
June 27 – CWT walk round East Pit
June 27 – CCF walk round Wicken Fen
July 4 – CPPF Trees of Wandlebury in Summer
July 5 – CFG excursion to Wicken Fen
July 5 – RSPB annual lecture
July 11 – CNHS field study – Ditton Meadows
July 14 – CWT walk round Fen Drayton Lakes
July 18 – CPPF Wandlebury Wildflowers in Summer
July 19 – Cambridgeshire Beekeepers Association talk by Kath Austin on BeeBeeWraps
July 22 – Wicken Fen bioblitz
July 25 – CWT Glowworm walk round East Pit
July 27 – Total eclipse of the Moon
August 5 – CNHS field study – Ditton Meadows
July 20 – August 12 – Big Butterfly Count
August 12 – CWT walk along the Roman Road
August 15 – CNHS visit to Magog Down
August 18 – CFG excursion to Lattersey Pits
August 18 – WT Trumpington Meadows discovery day
August 29 – CWT Bat walk round Paradise
September 2 – CNHS field study – Ditton Meadows (lichens)
September 6 – CNHS Council meeting
September 10 – CGS meeting, Discovering geology: from rivers to rocks and fens to fossils
September 11 – CPPF Wandlebury Wild Flowers in Autumn
September 13 – CCF AGM
September 15 – CFG excursion to Walpole Marsh
September 21 – CPPF Coton Reserve bioblitz
September 23 – FRRFD walk
September 26 – CPPF Gog Magog gardens walk
September 27 – CWT talk, Richard Preece on The Leonard Jenyns Project – exploring the Victorian fauna of Cambridgeshire
September 29 – CBG excursion to Trumpington
September 29 – Fungus the bogey dye: Dyeing with fungi with Irene Taydler & Carole Thompson, Arbury Community Centre, 2pm 
October 4 – CNHS talk, Lauren Gardiner on Old specimens, new tricks?
October 6 – CFG excursion to Chatteris
October 7 – CNHS field study – Ditton Meadows (fungi)
October 8 – CGS talk, Franziska Norman on Feathered lives – the fascinating world of dinobirds
October 11 – CNHS talk, Paul Hoxey on A trip to the Galapogos islands
October 13 – Big biology day at Hill’s Road 6th form college
October 14 – CBG excursion cancelled
October 18 – CNHS talk, Chris Preston on The riparian meadows of Cambridge
October 20 – CNHS fungal foray in the Botanic Garden
October 20 – CPPF Fungal discovery at Wandlebury
October 21 – CUBG Apple Day
October 25 – CNHS talk, Sam Buckton on Foula: Edge of the World
October 27 – CBG excursion to Abbots Ripton Hall
October 27 – National Hedge Laying Championship at Lark Rise Farm
September 21 – October 28 – Art exhibition “Trees Observed” honouring Oliver Rackham at the Fen Ditton Gallery
October 30 – CUSS talk, Wendy Barclay on Influenza pandemics, past and future
November 1 – CWT talk, Josh Hellon on Is it a bird, is it a plane – No it is a Wildlife Trust drone
November 3 – BTO/CBC Migration conference
November 8 – CNHS talk, Terry Moore on Getting to know British reptiles
November 9 – Wolfson Science Society talk, Lara Urban on Unravelling the hidden microbial world of the River Cam
November 11 – CNHS field study – Ditton Meadows (bryophytes)
November 12 – CCF Autumn Symposium The Past, Present and Future of Fenland
November 12 – CGS talk, Douglas Palmer on An exhibition of Ice Age Cambridgeshire
November 15 – CNHS talk, Joshua Harris on Wildlife photography
November 22 – CNHS talk, Mark Powell on Discovering lichens
November 24 – CBG excursion to Overhall Grove
November 25 – CCF work party in Hayley Wood
November 26 – CUNS/ARUWS/CUES/CUGS event with Bertie Gregory
November 27 – CCF AGM and Council meeting
November 29 – CWT talk, Conserving the Duke of Burgundy butterfly
December 6 – CNHS talk,  Anastasiya Timoshyna on the FairWild Standard followed by the Seasonal Social
December 9 – CBG excursion to the Roman Road
December 10 – CGS talk, Reg Nicholls on Bob Dylan and the Bone bed: A sideways glance at the Rhaetic (aka Penarth Group) exposed in Aust Cliff, S. Gloucestershire
December 14 – Cambridge Bat Group talk, Wandlebury
December 28 – CBG excursion to Fenland
December 29 – CWT walk around Lark Rise Farm