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Field Meetings 2010–2011

Full details of forthcoming field meetings are published monthly in the Sorby Newsletter, which members receive without charge in print or as a pdf file as part of membership. To attend these meetings, you need to be a member of the Sorby Natural History Society (view membership details). If you wish to sample what else we have to offer before joining, please feel free to attend one of our lectures or indoor meetings. Additional meetings will be organised throughout the year and will be published here when confirmed. Members can also check the monthly Sorby Newsletter for further details of all meetings.

Additional meetings will be organised throughout the year and will be published here when confirmed. Members can also check the monthly newsletters for further details of all meetings.

Date Location
January 2010
03 (Sunday)Potteric Carr
06 (Wednesday)Midweek mammals
10 (Sunday)Fungus meeting to Bowden Housteads Wood
February 2010
03 (Wednesday)Midweek mammals - Nottinghamshire border area
13 (Saturday)Mountain hare census
14 (Sunday)Mountain hare census
20 (Saturday)Lichen Meeting to Ecclesall Woods
March 2010
03 (Wednesday)Midweek mammals
06 (Saturday)Adder Training Day
27 (Saturday)Lichen Meeting to Calver
28 (Sunday)Colin Marsden Mountain Hare Walk
April 2010
01 (Thursday)Sprotborough Flash
17 (Saturday)General mammal meeting
24 (Saturday)Visit to RSPB Reserve at Blacktoft Sands
25 (Sunday)Anston Stones Wood
28 (Wednesday)Midweek mammals
28 (Wednesday)A Walk Through Shirtcliffe Valley (with Friends of Shirtcliffe Valley)
29 (Thursday)Owlthorpe minibeasts (with MS SLT)
May 2010
01 (Saturday)Ainsdale sand dunes
01 (Saturday)Sprotborough Flash Nature Reserve
04 (Tuesday)Ochre Dyke bats
06 (Thursday)Night Walk in Holmesfield Park Wood to Survey for Bats
11 (Tuesday)Padley Gorge (early walk)
12 (Wednesday)SIG Visit to Anston Stones Wood (with IBIS)
13 (Thursday)Beighton Orchard minibeasts (with MS Beighton Environment Group and Sheffield Landscape)
14 (Friday)Botany Meeting at Monks Dale
15 (Saturday)National Moth Night: Moth Watch at Cat Lane Allotments, Meersbrook
19 (Wednesday)Midweek mammals
22 (Saturday)Wildlife on your Doorstep - Shire Brook Valley Local Nature Reserve
23 (Sunday)Bradgate Brick Pits: Geology and Ecology (with SAGT)
29 (Saturday)YNU Botanical Meeting to Maltby Common
30 (Sunday)Botanical Meeting to the Stockley Trail
June 2010
05 (Saturday)Maltby Crags - Wood Lee Common, Maltby: Geology and Ecology (with SAGT)
12 (Saturday)Limestone Fungi at Sprotborough Flash Nature Reserve, Doncaster
12 (Saturday)Sorby Invertegrate Group Meeting to Barrow
16 (Wednesday)Midweek Mammals Meeting to Birchen and Gardom's Edge
19 (Saturday)Hatfield Moors / Boston Park. Please note the change of date from 17 June 2010.
20 (Sunday)Wogden Foot
21 (Monday)National Insect Week events
22 (Tuesday)National Insect Week events
23 (Wednesday)National Insect Week events
23 (Wednesday)Recording the Insects of Limb Valley
24 (Thursday)National Insect Week events
24 (Thursday)Insects on Wincobank Hill and Wincobank Wood
25 (Friday)National Insect Week events
25 (Friday)Moths and Bats at Norfolk Park
25 (Friday)Pipistrelle Colony Count
26 (Saturday)Five Weirs Walk, lichens, plant galls and invertebrates
26 (Saturday)National Insect Week events
27 (Sunday)National Insect Week events
July 2010
01 (Thursday)Crystal Peaks Meadow
03 (Saturday)YNU Meeting to Brockadale YWT Reserve
06 (Tuesday)Idle Valley Wetlands
08 (Thursday)Owlthorpe mammals and insects
09 (Friday)Pipistrelle Colony Count, Hope
10 (Saturday)Coombs Dale Botany and Insects
17 (Saturday)Ecclesall Woods Botany and Insects (with FEW, BEG)
18 (Sunday)Botanical Meeting at Blacka Moor
23 (Friday)Pipistrelle Colony Count, Hope
August 2010
13 (Friday)Sally Clark's Meadow, Shirebrook Valley
15 (Sunday)Joint Fungi and Botanical Walk along The Five Weirs Walk
21 (Saturday)Ecclesall Woods Botany and Insects (with FEW, BEG)
28 (Saturday)Evening Meeting to Count Daubenton's Bats along the River Derwent
September 2010
05 (Sunday)Melton Wood (with Br Plant Gall Soc & YNU)
08 (Wednesday)Bat watch
11 (Saturday)Ecclesall Woods
12 (Sunday)Urban invertebrates
15 (Wednesday)Bamford bat watch
17 (Friday)Owlthorpe moth watch
18 (Saturday)Holmesfield Park Woods
21 (Tuesday)Woodhouse Washlands
22 (Wednesday)Midweek mammals
25 (Saturday)Bamford Edge lichens
25 (Saturday)Fin Cop
26 (Sunday)Rough Standhills & Limb Valley
October 2010
02 (Saturday)Porter Valley
02 (Saturday)Small mammals workshop
03 (Sunday)Small mammals workshop
03 (Sunday)Padley Woods & Bole Hills
06 (Wednesday)Midweek mammals
07 (Thursday)Fairburn Ings
07 (Thursday)Council
09 (Saturday)Lathkill Dale
09 (Saturday)Mosses and liverworts
10 (Sunday)General Cemetery
16 (Saturday)Dovedale
23 (Saturday)Ladybower
24 (Sunday)Wharncliffe Heath / Deepcar
31 (Sunday)Harvest Mouse search (with MVWG)
November 2010
06 (Saturday)Strawberry Lea Pastures
10 (Wednesday)Midweek mammals
13 (Saturday)Lynwood Gardens
17 (Wednesday)Beighton Marsh small mammals
20 (Saturday)Tophill Low
25 (Thursday)Council
27 (Saturday)Coombs Dale lichens
December 2010
02 (Thursday)Blackburn Meadows
15 (Wednesday)Midweek mammals
30 (Thursday)Christmas Pudding walk
January 2011
06 (Thursday)Midweek mammals
15 (Saturday)Longshaw
20 (Thursday)Council
23 (Sunday)Saltholme
February 2011
03 (Thursday)Midweek mammals
15 (Tuesday)River Don, Rotherham
26 (Saturday)Stanton Moor lichens
March 2011
03 (Thursday)Midweek mammals
17 (Thursday)Council
19 (Saturday)Rother Valley Country Park
27 (Sunday)Colin Marsden Mountain hare walk