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Bristol Naturalist News Contents / Diary of events JUNE 2016 Bristol Naturalist News Photo © Gill Brown Discover Your Natural World Bristol Naturalists’ Society BULLETIN NO. 551 JUNE 2016 BULLETIN NO. 551 JUNE 2016 Bristol Naturalists’ Society Discover Your Natural World Registered Charity No: 235494 www.bristolnats.org.uk HON. PRESIDENT: David Hill, CONTENTS BSc (Sheff), DPhil (Oxon). 3 Diary of Events HON. CHAIRMAN: VACANT HON. PROCEEDINGS RECEIVING EDITOR: 4 Walks: ‘Mid-week’; Roger’s Notes; Dee Holladay, 15 Lower Linden Rd., Clevedon, Phenology ; BS21 7SU [email protected] HON. SEC.: Lesley Cox 07786 437 528 5 BNS/University in association [email protected] Welcome to new members HON. MEM'SHIP SEC.: Mrs. Margaret Fay 6 Richard Bland’s walks – and reports 81 Cumberland Rd., BS1 6UG. 0117 921 4280 [email protected] 7 GEOLOGY SECTION HON. TREASURER: Mr Stephen Fay, Geology blog moved 81 Cumberland Rd., BS1 6UG. 0117 921 4280 8 BOTANY SECTION [email protected] BULLETIN DISTRIBUTION 9 Indoor meetings – views wanted Hand deliveries save about £800 a year, so help Botanical notes; Meeting Reports is much appreciated. Offers please to: HON. CIRCULATION SEC.: Brian Frost, 60 Purdy 13 LIBRARY New: Dragonflies & Court, New Station Rd, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 Damselflies of Gloucestershire 3RT. 0117 9651242. [email protected] He will be pleased to supply further details. Also 14 INVERTEBRATE SECTION contact him about problems with (non-)delivery. Notes for June, Reading Group BULLETIN COPY DEADLINE: 7th of month before Items of Interest publication to the editor: David B Davies, The Summer House, 51a Dial Hill Rd., Clevedon, BS21 16 MAMMAL SECTION 7EW. 01275 873167 [email protected] Meeting Report; New Recorder wanted Grants: The society makes grants of around Facebook group £500 for projects that meet the Society’s charitable aims of promoting research & 17 MISCELLANY education in natural history & its conservation in Botanic Garden; Arnos Vale event; the Bristol region. Information and an application Clifton & Hotwells Open Gardens ; form can be downloaded from: Badock’s Wood http://bns.myspecies.info/search/site/Grants Gorge & Downs Wildlife Project (and bristolnats.org.uk) Email completed applications to [email protected]. 18 ORNITHOLOGY SECTION Health & Safety on walks: Members New Book: Birds of Exmoor; participate at their own risk. They are Meeting Reports; Recent News; responsible for being properly clothed and shod. 20 Bristol Swift Group; Dogs may only be brought on a walk with prior New book: Migrant Waders; Dormouse ! agreement of the leader. Cover picture: Water Vole, taken by Gill Brown in Gloucestershire, March 2016. Thanks Bristol Naturalists’ Society to Gill for a remarkable shot. Discover Your Natural World 2 Registered Charity No: 235494 www.bristolnats.org.uk Diary of events Back to contents Council usually meets on the first Wednesday of each month (please confirm the date with the Hon. Sec. if you plan to attend). Any member can attend, but must give advance notice if wishing to speak. Visitors & guests are very welcome at any of our meetings. If contact details are given, please contact the leader beforehand, and make yourself known on arrival. We hope that you will enjoy the meeting, and consider joining the Society. To find out how to join, visit http://bns.myspecies.info and click on membership. JUNE 2016 Thu 2 Mid-week Walk Society 10:00 page 4 Sat 4 Westhay Ornithology 10:00 page 18 Sun 5 Bugs & Beasties (with Bristol University) Society 14:00 page 5 Sun 5 Netcott’s Meadow LNR Invertebrate 14:00 page 14 Sat/Sun 11/12 BNS at Festival of Nature. See call for volunteers in Roger’s Notes p4 Thu 16 RBland walk – Downs Meadows Society 19:00 page 6 Sat 18 Uphill & Axe Estuary Ornithology 10:00 page 18 Sun 19 Towerhouse Wood Invertebrate 14:00 page 14 Sun 19 Urban Garden (with Bristol University) Society 15:00 page 5 Tue 21 St. George’s Flower Bank LNR Botany 18:30 page 9 Sat 25 Watchet Geology 11:00 page 7 Sun 26 Clapton Moor, Gordano Valley NNR Invertebrate 14:00 page 14 JULY 2016 Sat 16 Avonmouth Saltmarsh Invertebrate 11:00 page 14 Thu 21 RBland walk – The Ash Wood Society 19:00 page 6 AUGUST 2016 Thu 18 RBland walk – St Vincent’s Rocks Society 19:00 page 6 OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST: Richard Bland’s Walks – listed in full on page 6 – NB Booking essential Richard Bland offers a series of two-hour Downs walks. All must be booked direct with him: (0117 968 1061 [email protected] ). JUNE Thu 2 Get to Grips with Grasses Gorge & Downs 10:00 page 17 Thu-Sat 9-11 National Moth Nights page 14 Fri 10 6 Fridays painting moths/butterflies Botanic Garden 09:45 page 17 Sat11-Sun 12 Festival of Nature, Bristol Harbourside (see Roger’s Notes) page 4 Sat11-Sun 12 Open Gardens, Clifton & Hotwells CHIS page 17 Sat 11 Intro to Grass Identification Arnos Vale 10:00 page 16 Sun 12 Evercreech Som. Rare Plants 11:00 page 8 Thu 16 Shepperdine Glos. Nats. 11:00 page 8 Sat 25 Painting Pollinators Botanic Garden 10:00 page 17 Thu 30 Midsummer Night’s Dream Botanic Garden 19:30 page 17 JULY Sat 2 Dyrham BioBlitz: with BNS Various times page 14 Sun 3 Flower Walk Badock’s Wood 14:00 page 17 3 SOCIETY ITEMS Back to contents / Back to Diary SOCIETY MID-WEEK WALK Thursday 2nd June, Chequers Inn, Hanham. Approx. 3miles Meet 10am. Avon riverside at the Chequers, Ferry Road, off Abbots Road, Hanham Green. ST648701, BS15 3NU. The walk takes us from Hanham Court and along and above Cleeve Wood until we get down to the river at Mill Clack Bridge where there is a quay, a sign of previous shipping activity and the lower end of the dramway from the coal mines at Siston and Rodway. We return along the riverside. At this time of the year foliage of the different trees is gloriously kaleidoscopic. The Chequers is a popular hostelry overlooking the river, and has a large car park. When we came to it one chilly autumn lunchtime we were treated as VIPs, seated in great pomp as the only customers round a large table. Tony Smith, 0117 965 6566 ROGER’S NOTES s I write, Spring is in full swing (or is it just another false start?). I hope that you will take the opportunity to take part in one of the interesting field trips that we have A organised in the next few months. We are very lucky in the level of expertise that we have available in the society, and there is always the chance to better your knowledge, or to share it with others. I always advise that you should try something new. If you are a botanist, see how the plant life is affected by the geology, if you are a geologist then knowing what plants occur in certain geologies, allows you a head-start in working out what is under the soil. Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June we are at the Festival of Nature in Millennium Square. This time we are not in the crowded Green Forum tent, but in a smaller one, shared with the University of Bristol, an earthworm project and a reptile group. Our tent is no.9 and is to the left of the Square as you look towards the water, with your back to @Bristol. We are looking for volunteers to man the stand, and can offer a great development this time – chairs! If you think that you can help, please get in touch as soon as you can. By the time you read this, time will be short. Roger Steer PHENOLOGY hat a strange spring we are having. I write this on May 5th and the Lime trees and Ash trees are still quite bare, Hawthorn is not in bloom, and yet Oak is covered in W catkins. Some Beech have been in leaf for a fortnight, some are still bare - and they have almost no flowers. April, like March, was cool and dry. It was four degrees cooler than last year, and had half the normal rainfall. There were 21 days with no rain, and five frost nights, the last on the 29th . It has been the most wonderful spring ever for Magnolias; stimulated into flower in late January, they have kept their flowers right until the end of April without any leaves developing, and no frost strong enough to wreck the flowers. Richard Bland 4 BIODIVERSITY TOURS Back to contents / Back to Diary The new University/BNS Biodiversity Tours of Historic Gardens, etc., led by BNS experts continue this month with two more dates for your diary. Although each tour has a theme, all matters of interest will be noted. FIVE free places are available for BNS members on each of the events, which are sited in a variety of venues, some of which are not normally open to the public. Those wishing to attend must book with the Hon. Sec. on 07786 437428 or [email protected] This new venture is proving to be very popular and we are hoping that the events being offered for the coming month will, once again, highlight the range and importance of biodiversity to a new audience. For us in the BNS, there are new venues to explore. TWO events are offered in JUNE, both within Goldney Hall, as follows: - Sunday, 5th June: BUGS AND BEASTIES Goldney Garden – 2:00 p.m. Goldney Hall in Clifton is not normally open to the public and is considered to be quite a special place in terms of its history, features and gardens that boast quite contrasting characteristics, such as manicured lawns and open grassland; formal orchards, specimen trees and little copses; a water feature, an orangery, quirky buildings and a grotto.
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