RNHS Meeting Reports

  This meeting will be led by Dave Needham.

Unravelling the mysteries of migration With Dawn Balmer, Head of Surveys at the BTO (British Trust for Ornithology). This is the first Nola Thurlow ornithological lecture, financed by a legacy from Nola. We will also be launching the 2018 RNHS Calendar – the result of...

  Phil Rudkin and Dave Needham of the Society took us through a year with woodpeckers in sound and pictures. Focussing on all three species at local sites both past and present and reflecting on the changes in distribution over the years.   Below are some...

Insects at Ketton Quarry With RNHS Insect Recorder Gill Chiverton and Butterfly Recorder Richard Brown. 

Woodwalton Fen (the Great Fen Project) Led by Henry Stanier, BCNWT Monitoring and Research Officer.    RNHS Visit to Woodwalton Fen Sunday 8th July 2018 The weather has been hot and dry for several weeks, and perhaps was too hot for many of our members to venture...

Our annual visit to Seaton Meadow along with Plantlife to survey the changes to this reserve and to remember Graham Worrall and the amount of time and effort he committed to this reserve and the Society Seaton Meadows, owned by Plantlife, a national wild plant...

RNHS visit report: Cribb’s Meadow, 20th May 2018 May is a lovely time to begin visiting our grassland nature reserves and this proved to be the case when 12 members of the Society went to Cribb’s Meadow Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and National Nature...

An early start for our annual dawn chorus in Burley Wood 

Many RNHS members will already know Steve Woodward and Helen Iken. Helen is the President of Loughborough Nats, and Steve does a lot of the work for their bulletin, and edits the Rutland and Leics Recorder. They are acknowledged experts on many insects, particularly...

The usual short AGM proceeded under the Chair of Phil Rudkin. There were no major issues and full details will be published shortly   After the AGM, Maggie Manson and Peter Farmer, RNHS members, took us on their exciting shipboard visit to the Russian Arctic...

Report from Linda Biddle For our first outing of the new year RNHS members (11) met at the car park at Clipsham Yew Tree avenue at 10.00am. Luckily the weather, though still cool and grey, was dry and less damp and misty than it had been all week. In spite of being in...

By Susannah O'Riordan who is the "Back from the Brink" Rockingham Forest Project Officer. This project, part of a nationwide project, aims to improve the woodlands for special species such as Barbastelle Bat, Adder, Willow Tit, Fly Orchid and the Concolorous moth,...