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Programme for 2014 – see below for the indoor and outdoor meetings respectively.
The Society was formed on 2nd December 1963 and is based on the administrative district of Ryedale in North Yorkshire. It is responsible for almost 1200 one-kilometre squares with Kirkbymoorside at an approximate centre. Our area is roughly defined by the northern watershed running from Black Hambleton to Saltersgate; the Whitby to Thornton-le-Dale road to the east and the drove road along the edge of the Hambleton Hills to the west. Our southern boundary is less easy to describe but generally includes the Howardian Hills as far as Malton and the Kirkham Gorge, following the 70 grid line.
There are approximately 60 members and the Society has seven indoor meetings, usually on the third Tuesday of the month in Kirkbymoorside, and at least four outdoor trips during the year. New members are always welcome (please contact the Secretary, Pauline Popely, or just come to one of our meetings).
We publish Newsletters, annually in recent years. Dr. Michael Thompson has recently donated two bound volumes of the newsletters 1998-2004 and 2005-2008 to the archives of the Ryedale Folk Museum. They are now available for reading in Ryedale Folk Museum library. We would like to thank Michael for this generous donation.
We are affiliated to the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union (YNU), and have a list of YNU Field Excursions.
| January 21st | Recorders’ Reports | Ryenats Recorders |
| February 18th | Buglife’s Beelines Project Joint Meeting with Ryedale Beekeepers’ Association |
Paul Evans |
| March 18th | Alfred Russel Wallace and the other Origin of Species | Dr Phil Wheeler |
| April 15th | The Jewel of York: Conservation of the Tansy Beetle | Dr. Geoff Oxford |
| October 21st | Birds and Culture of Kazakhstan | John McEachen |
| November 18th | AGM and “Bird Strikes” | Paul Cropper |
| December 16th | Nature Conservation in the National Trust: up front and personal | Stephen Morley |
| January 20th 2015 | Recorders’ Reports & Members’ Projects | Ryenats Recorders |
Indoor meetings are held in the Methodist Hall, Kirkbymoorside, at 7:30pm.
March 29th |
Arkengarthdale Black Grouse Lek meet Market Place, Kirkbymoorside 4:00am |
Mick Carroll |
| May 3rd | Dawn Chorus, Sutton Bank meet car park SE515830 5:00am |
Jim Pewtress |
| May 10th | Newtondale meet Stape Village Hall SE795926 1:00pm |
Gill Smith |
| May 18th | Spaunton Quarry (wildflowers and butterflies) meet Appleton Common, SE725872 10:00am |
Pauline Popely |
| June 8th | Ashberry Bank Evening Walk meet Rievaulx Terrace SE580851 7:00pm |
Jim Pewtress |
| June 21st | Sleightholmedale Afternoon Walk meet The Avenue SE671886 2:00pm |
Tom Denney |
| July 12th | Sleightholmedale Afternoon Walk meet Cherry Tree Farm SE653903 2:00pm |
Keith Gittens |
| September 6th | Keldholme Road Quarries meet car park SE706885 2:30pm |
Jim Pewtress |
| October 4th | Sleightholmedale, Fungus Foray meet Cherry Tree Farm SE653903 2:00pm |
Rhona Sutherland |
Extra meetings may be arranged throughout the season.
For further details please contact Pauline Popely.
YNU Field Excursions 2014
For further details see http://www.ynu.org.uk/events |
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