Our programme for 2018
Details are added here as soon as meetings are arranged and
confirmed.
Indoor meetings start at 7.30pm in Room
0.23 (ground floor) of the Cardiff School of Management Building, Metropolitan
University, Llandaff Campus, Western Avenue, Llandaff, Cardiff, CF5 2YB -
unless otherwise stated (*).
2018
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Title
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Speaker/Leader
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Sunday 7 Jan *
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Cardiff Birdwatch (outdoor meeting)
Meet 10am
on Wild Garden Road at the north end of Roath Park Lake.
Bring
picnic if staying for afternoon, which may be to a second site.
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Rob & Linda Nottage
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Monday 15 Jan
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Members' Evening
CNS
members' short illustrated talks.
Phill
Blanning on 'Late Summer in the Austrian Alps'; Linda Morris on 'Polish
fungi'; Mike Dean on 'Monarchs and Madeira'; Andy Kendall 'Some past members
of the Society'.
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Wednesday 24 Jan
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Deserts and Dinosaurs in Wales
The recent
discovery of a new meat-eating dinosaur in early-Jurassic rocks near Penarth
has helped fill a gap in the early evolution of these iconic creatures. Find
out more about this and other dinosaur discoveries from south Wales.
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Cindy Howells
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Monday 19 Feb
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A Saltmarsh Restoration Story
...As a
nation we can no longer build our way out of trouble on the coast... Shifting
Shores Policy, National Trust (2005).
"Cwm
Ivy marsh in North Gower is the site of the first saltmarsh restoration
project in Wales. a real flagship site for National Trust and a magnet
for a diverse array of wildlife. This is the story of how this gem of a
site has made the dramatic transition from poor quality, rush-dominated
land back into a fully-functioning saltmarsh. My talk will give an overview
of the origins of the project, the processing involved and the wonderful and
prolific wildlife that inhabits the range of habitats to be found
there."
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Corrinne Benbow
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Thursday 1 March (*)
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Rearranged for
Wednesday 7 March 7:30 pm Please note that the location has changed to be the normal CNS location at Room 0.23 (ground floor) of the Cardiff School of Management Building, Metropolitan University, Llandaff Campus, Western Avenue, Llandaff, Cardiff, CF5 2YB We know it is short notice, but we hope you can make it regards Andy Mary Gillham: a Dedicated Naturalist
As SEWBReC's Mary Gillham Archive
Project draws to its close, Project Officer Al Reeve summarises the project's
achievements and results.
This is combined meeting with the
Cardiff Group of the Wildlife Trust South and West Wales and the Student
Wildlife Society Cardiff University.
7:30pm. Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main
Building, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff.
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Al Reeve
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Tuesday, 6 March
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Cardiff
Naturalists’, 150 years of Nature and Conservation
Andy
Kendall will be giving a talk about our first 150 years to the Old St Mellons
Gardening club. Cardiff Naturalists' Society members are welcome to join
– 7PM at
Old
St Mellons Village Hall Newport Rd Cardiff CF3 5UN
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Andy Kendall
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Friday,
9 March
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Cardiff Naturalists’, 150 years of Nature and
Conservation
Andy
Kendall will be giving a talk about our first 150 years to the volunteers and
staff of the Glamorgan Archives. Cardiff Naturalists' Society members are
welcome to join 2PM at
Glamorgan
Archives / Archifau Morgannwg Clos Parc Morgannwg, Leckwith, CF11 8AW Cardiff
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Andy Kendall
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Monday
12 March
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Student Bursary award evening
Presentation of this year's Biosciences Prize to
the 2nd year student from the School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, for
their outstanding fieldwork. Zoe Watts will talk about her project, entitled
'The Secret Cleaners of the Reef'.
Plus a talk on developments at Ruperra Castle from the Secretary of the Ruperra Castle Preservation Trust. |
Zoe Watts
Pat Jones-Jenkins
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Monday 26 March
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Saving near-extinct Birds - the inspiring story of the Seychelles
This talk illustrates the range of birds and other wildlife to be seen
in the Seychelles and describes recent successful programmes for saving
several bird species that had become critically endangered.
Note: this is a rearranged lecture (previously advertised as 1st
February) and it will be held in our usual meeting room in the School of
Management, Cardiff Metropolitan Uni, Llandaff Campus.
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Al Venables
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Thursday,
12 April
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Cardiff Naturalists’, 150 years of Nature and
Conservation
Andy Kendall will be giving a talk about our first 150 years to the
Radyr History Society. Cardiff Naturalists' Society members are welcome to
join at 7:30 pm at
Old Church Rooms, Park Rd, Radyr CF15 8DF
If you are coming from Morganstown you go under the Motorway and up a
steep hill. Just after the brow of the hill the Old Church Rooms are about
400 metres on your right. A building with a semi-circular apse that looks
like a church. Turn into Park Road just after the building, it has a car park
and plenty of on road parking.
If you are coming from the Llandaff end, pass the church on your left,
the war memorial on your right and the shops on your right. The Old Church
Rooms are about a quarter of a mile further on your left. This time turn into
Park Road before the building
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Andy Kendall
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Saturday 12 May
10am to 1pm.
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Outdoor
Meetings 2018
Taf Fechan
Reserve- a joint trip with the Wildlife Trust
Taf Fechan
is one of the Wildlife Trust’s most beautiful reserves. It is just
north of Merthyr Tydfil and is a broadleaved woodland reserve running along a
limestone river valley. A great place to see riverine birds such as
dipper and grey wagtail, as well as many woodland species. The Wildlife
Trust’s Valleys Reserve Officer, Lorna Baggett, will be showing us
around. Meet at 10 am in the Lon Maes Du layby on Vaynor Road
(http://goo.gl/maps/XRS1L). The visit will finish at 1pm.
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Lorna Baggett
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Thursday 17th May
10.30am |
Wenvoe and Goldsland
This wildlife walk is also part of the Vale of Glamorgan
Walking Festival. It starts outside St Mary's Church in the middle of Wenvoe
and heads towards Goldsland Farm via some orchards. Goldsland has possibly the
only surviving constructed watercress beds in Wales, a newly planted orchard,
sunken lane, lichen trail and bee hotel. From there we head back via St Lythans
burial chamber and some more orchards. Distance 5/6 miles with several stiles,
finishing by 3.30pm. Bring lunch.
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Bruce McDonald
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Saturday
9th June
11am
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Insole
Court, Cardiff
As
part of the Insole Court Heritage Day, Cardiff Naturalists' Society have
arranged for Tony Titchen to lead a walk around the grounds looking at the
many interesting specimen trees to be found there. Duration around 1 hour 30
minutes. Meet outside the visitor centre at 11 am.
Parking, cafe and toilets are available at Insole but bear in mind that there will be many other visitors there enjoying the other events on offer on that day. For more information on Insole:
https://www.insolecourt.org/
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Tony Titchen
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Saturday 30th June 10am
to 1pm.
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Pentwyn
Farm and Wyeswood Common - a joint trip with the Wildlife Trust
We
will be visiting two of the Gwent Wildlife Trust’s flagship reserves and will
be shown around by Tim Green, their Senior Farm and Wildlife Development
Officer. The site includes one of the largest remaining areas of
flower-rich grassland in Gwent and provides an opportunity to see hay meadows
as they would have looked in the past, before the advent of intensive
farming. Meet at Pentwyn Farm (SO 523 094, NP25 4SE) at 10am.
After visiting the two reserves, we hope to retire to a local hostelry for
lunch.
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Tim Green
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Saturday 14th July 10am
to 3pm.
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Dare Valley Country Park - Insects of Colliery Spoil Tips - a joint
trip with the Wildlife Trust
Recently we have begun to appreciate that old colliery spoil tips can
be great habitats for a wide range of invertebrates and other wildlife,
mainly due to the free-draining nature of the spoil substrate and the dry
grassland and heathland that develops there. Liam Olds has set up the
‘Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative’ and will be leading our visit to
Dare Valley. Amongst many other butterfly and bee species, we hope to
see grayling and small pearl bordered fritillary. Meet at the car park
at Dare Valley Country Park (SN 98307 02702, CF44 7PT) at 10am. There
is a nice café in the visitor centre so we will probably break for lunch
about 1pm.
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Liam Olds
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