RNHS Meeting Reports

Jenny Harris, LRWT Conservation Officer and RNHS Member leads this walk at Merry's Meadow.    

Another early start again in Burley Wood A walk to listen to the dawn chorus in this exceptional woodland area.  

Rutland Natural History Society member Phil Rudkin will lead this walk. A Garden Warbler was singing just inside the gate as 19 members of the society assembled at Burley Wood for a walk under Phil Rudkin’s  leadership. We could hear it clearly despite the  noise of...

Henry Stanier is the Great Fen Ecology and Recording Officer. Henry is well known to the society both as a member and as a speaker on many occasions. This time he will be updating us on this one of the most important restoration projects in Europe. Super talk by Henry...

The Minutes of the 2016 AGM can be found here. Minutes of 2016 AGM   A short AGM will be followed by Jenny Harris talking about Ketton Quarry. Jenny who works for LRWT is a member of RNHS.

A presentation by Mick Parfitt and Henry Curry of the British Dragonfly Society. The Society is now at Wicken Fen but for many years was based at Miriam Rothschild's estate in Ashton Northants, where several of our older members were involved in the work of the...

Chris Gerrard, Natural Catchment and Biodiversity Manager from Anglian Water

With typically unseasonal weather, ten members met at the car park in Fineshade Forest on Sunday 8th January and enjoyed a relatively balmy temperature of 9° C although a little overcast at first and damp underfoot. This Northamptonshire Forest is managed by Forest...

Eyebrook Reservoir focusing on winter wildfowl. After the poor weather conditions for last months trip to Frampton Marsh we were again faced with less than ideal weather for this walk. The bad weather obviously put members off and only a small party risked the...

RSPB Frampton Marsh     This is rapidly becoming one of the premier birding sites on the east coast. There is a variety of habitat that supports many breeding species together with an ever increasing list of passage birds including many rarities. We will meet at...

LICHENS - thriving but still threatened Ivan Pedley of the British Lichen Society also county co-ordinator for Mites and Ticks and for Thrips and a long standing friend of the society gave an excellent talk on one of his pet subjects Lichens. The talk as usual...