Autumn Programme (September - December 2024)
For any forthcoming Society activity, each member who is planning to participate should assess his/her own risk and that of their household having regard to his/her own health and circumstances. This requirement is in accordance with the Society’s Constitution that states ‘Members taking part in any meeting or activity do so at their own risk.’
3rd SUMMER REVIEW
Our return to the Cruck Barn after our outdoor season. Please come along willing to share a few recollections of your summer highlights
10th SAVE WOLVERTON SWIFTS AND MARTINS
This local conservation group has only been running for a few years but has already achieved great results for swifts and house martins. Paul Duberry and Emma Rix will be on hand to tell us all about it.
17th WESTERN CALIFORNIA IN EARLY SPRING
Our Chairman Matt Andrews will share with us some more of his superb photographs from a recent foreign adventure. Tonight, it’s western California in the early Spring: Sequoia National Park with birds, animals and other fauna from the desert nothing of Los Angeles to montane species further north, and then coastal and marine fauna from Sann Francisco travelling south along the Pacific Highway back down to LA.
24th THE FLORA (AND FAUNA) OF SWITZERLAND’S UPPER ENGADINE VALLEY
Tim Arnold visited the valley early in the Alpine spring and found a wide variety of flowers below the retreating snow line, helped by the mixed geology of the area. He will share some of the floral highlights this evening.
1st THE GREEN ROOF PROJECT
Chris Bridgman MBE is Director of Bridgman and Bridgman, a Milton Keynes based company which leads the way in green roof technology and installation. Their aim is to ensure that every roof that can be, be green and wildlife friendly.
8th A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF BRITISH DEER
We are fortunate tonight to be joined by a local authority on deer. Will Waldron is Senior Deer Keeper at the Woburn Estate. He will talk to us about the biology and behaviour of the various species and discuss their management and husbandry.
15th BUILDING COLLABORATION FOR CLIMATE ACTION IN MILTON KEYNES
Mike Flood from Climate Action MK will give us an illustrated talk on this new partnership.
20th LINFORD WOOD – Sunday morning walk led by Martin Kincaid
A mid-autumn walk around a local wood well known to our members. We should find a good variety of fruiting fungi and perhaps late flowering plants.
Meet at 10.15 for a 10.30 start in the Enfield Chase car park, off V7 Saxon Street, adjacent to a BP garage and the large communications mast.
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22nd MEMBERS NIGHT – BOOK REVIEWS
These evenings have proved popular in the past. Please bring along a favourite wildlife book or piece of natural history writing and be prepared to say a few words about its importance to you.
29th THE KITTIWAKE – Martin Kincaid
If any bird is truly deserving of the name ‘Seagull’ it is surely the kittiwake, a species far more at home on the open sea than on our shores. Why then, do so many nest on the Tyne? Martin Kincaid will talk about one of his favourite British birds.
5th WHALES AND DOLPHINS OF THE AZORES – ZOOM MEETING
With some 23 species, The Azores is undoubtedly the best place in Europe for watching cetaceans. Sara Frost is a renowned naturalist and Naturetrek leader who will talk us through the biology of whales and dolphins in these islands.
DETAILS OF FURTHER EVENTS TO BE CONFIRMED
Event details to be added once available