RNHS Meeting Reports

Please note this meeting has sold out there are no more seats available so please do not turn up if you are not booked in. We are trying out a daytime meeting for those who would rather attend during the day. Join Sarah Lambert for a morning coffee and a talk.  Sarah...

Our first indoor meeting of 2024 is a talk "What we found in Jean-Henri Fabre's back yard and how I photographed it" by John Tinning. This is essentially an entomological talk about the natural history of South West France, with a bit of something to interest...

Linda and Anthony Biddle will take us on our New Years walk on the Hambleton Peninsular. Winter walk January 6th 2024 Our usual post-Christmas walk was planned soon after the new year to blow away the cobwebs and maybe walk off some of the Christmas food! Ten of us...

A chance for members and recorders to share their photos, videos, activities and records from the previous year.

“Green is the new Black”. A talk by Tim Sexton, Species and Recording officer for LRWT. The former Rufford colliery near Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, closed in 1993 after eight decades. Hear how it has been transformed into the County’s biggest heathland recreation...

Dave Robinson of the Charnwood Group of the LRWT will talk about the amazing world of vision, defensive colouration and eye mimicry in the animal kingdom. Please book your seat with Jeff Wilcox-smith 07946733931 or wilcoxsmith@btinternet.com

Join Tim Sexton, Species and Recording Officer at Rutland Water Nature Reserve for a Fungi Walk around Barnsdale Woods. Almost 300 species of fungi have been recorded in the wood including Magpie Inkcap, spotted as recently as this year for the first time in Rutland.

The Biking Birder -  Adventures of a Green Birder is a talk by Gary Prescott a retired schoolteacher with a passion for nature. Over the last 11 years he has been on 5 biking birder adventures whilst raising money for charity.

A bat walk with Jenny Harris, RNHS, a bat care co-ordinator with the Leicestershire and Rutland Bat Group. Starting in Aldgate, Ketton.

Please note there will be two sessions to this event one starting at 10.30 am and one at 2.00 pm. This will be a day of discovery and learning for the whole family at this fantastic site for wildlife. Bugs, butterflies and flowers. Bring the children and...

Stonesby Quarry hosts the biggest colony of Pyramidal Orchids in Leicestershire and Rutland. The reserve is part of a worked-out quarry on soft Jurassic Lower Lincolnshire Limestone. The reserve entrance is situated to the east of Waltham-on-the-Wolds. Approach the...

Jenny Harris is leading this walk at Merry's Meadows a LRWT Reserve