Walk – Bird Bank & Burnt Acres (Leader Philip Marshall)
Lobb Mill Picnic Site OL14 8SSSurvey – Shibden Valley Quadrant Botany Survey
Junction of Swales Moor Road and Lee Lane. HX3 6UHWalk – Oxygrains & Whinny Nick (Leader Mick Harrop)
Boothwood Dam Car Park HX6 4RQA upland circular walk on Rishworth Moor. Green Withens, Moorland Birds & Ancient Tracks
Visit – Askham Bog YWT Nature Reserve
Askham Bog NR Car Park YO23 3XWA very special reserve recently saved from encroaching development with support from Sir David Attenborough. An ancient fenland with 400yr old Royal Ferns, Gingerbread Sedge & Water Violets. Fenland Birds & Dragonflies!
Moths Breakfast
Mirey Wall Farm, Boulderclough. HX6 1 NJCome along & view the moths caught overnight whilst enjoying a cuppa & a bite to eat.
Walk – Midgley Moor Lizards & Old Town Orchids (Leader Sarah Flood/Mick Harrop)
Jerusalem Farm HX2 6TH BoothA circular walk from Jerusalem Farm across Midgley Moor to view an amazing Field of Orchids at Old Town. Common Lizards almost guaranteed if the weather is kind to us.
Survey – River Calder Otter & Mink (Leader Mick Harrop)
Sowerby Bridge Cricket Club HX6 1ANA survey of a stretch of the Calder for signs of Otter & Mink
Walk – Autumn Crocus (Leader Steve Blacksmith)
Hollas Bridge HX6 2FDA short walk to view the Autumn Crocus growing along the Calder at Copley
AGM followed by a talk from our own Anthony Arak with the title – Nature’s Undertakers: The Secret World of Sexton Beetles
This will be our first AGM in almost three years so a good attendance will be appreciated.
Walk – Family Fungi Foray (Leader Sarah Flood/Mick Harrop)
Ogden Water Visitor Centre, HX2 8XZA walk around Ogden Water noting the fungi seen