Ryedale Natural History Society Meetings 2009

Programme for 2009 – 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, Tom Denney, 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.
Our programme for 2009 is:

INDOOR MEETINGS 2009

January 20th	Recorders’ Reports	Ryenats Recorders
February 17th	A Moor with a Difference Joint Meeting with Ryedale Beekeepers’ Association	John Edwards
March 17th	Wildlife Rehabilitation in Ryedale	Jean Thorpe
April 21st	Our Living Landscape Joint Meeting with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust	Terry Smithson
October 20th	Alien Plants	Niall Moore
November 17th	Predation of Populations and the AGM	Gordon Woodroffe
December 15th	A Year in the Life of a Botanist	Gill Smith
January 19th 2009	Recorders’ Reports	Ryenats Recorders

Indoor meetings are held in the Methodist Hall, Kirkbymoorside, at 7:30pm.

OUTDOOR MEETINGS 2009

Unless advised otherwise all meetings are on Saturdays
Please bring a packed lunch for all-day meetings.

April 11th	Appleton-le-Moors 11am – Looking for the Star of Bethlehem Meet near the telephone box SE 737878	Nan Sykes
May 9th	Bluebell Time in Riccal Dale 11am Meet Carlton SE 610865	Janet Denney
June 6th	Hawnby Church 11am – Summer Migrants SE 536897	Jim Pewtress
July 11th	Whenby/Stearsby 11am – Botanical Recording Meet near maze at SE 626719	Gill Smith & Nan Sykes
September 19th	Robin Hood’s Bay 11am – A Day at the Coast Meet at Car Park NZ 951055	Tom & Janet Denney
November 7th	Fungi Foray, Windy Gates, Yearsley Moor 11am SE 582751	Rhona Sutherland

A Programme and Newsletter are available
from the Secretary:

Tom Denney, Sykes House, Rudland,
Fadmoor, York

or email Tom Denney or Gill Smith

YNU Field Excursions 2009

VC62 May 16th	Castle Howard Arboretum
VC63 June 20th	Howell Wood, South Kirby
VC64 July 4th	Kettlewell
VC65 July 15th	Keld
VC61 August 8th	Skipwith

For further details see http://ynu.org.uk/ynuexcursions.htm
There are also separate outings for the different sections, e.g. Botanical.