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Category Archives: Meetings
November meeting change of speaker
Due to an error on my part, the November meeting will now be local photographer Ron Marshall giving his talk entitled – “Alaska – the final frotier”. The talk covers his trip to the very north of Alsaka to the … Continue reading
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Half Moon and Ashfields
Field meeting, 14 August 2016: The Ashfields, between Heath village and the River Calder (OS ref. SE 353 206), were settlement lagoons for the pulverised fuel ash from Wakefield power station which was decommissioned in 1991. In the past thirty or forty … Continue reading
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Tagged Amber snail, Ashfields, Half Moon, Longhorn beetle
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Askham Bog field meeting
There was a good turn out for the Askham, Bog walk today and the weather wasn’t too bad with bright skies and some sunny intervals. There was enough warmth to have a few insects on the wing including orange tip, … Continue reading
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Tagged Askham Bog, large red damselfly, water violet
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Annual General Meeting 12th January 2016
The next meting is the AGM and so I thought I would post the agenda here in case anyone would like to print it or peruse it. There will be a bit more business than usual as the Society is … Continue reading
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Haw Park & Anglers CP field meeting
Our group of about 12 were pleasantly surprised to be met by Pete Smith, with a collection of moths he had trapped on Saturday night, identified and put into magnifying boxes for us to see, including the beautiful carpet moth, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglers Country Park, wildlflowers around Wakefield
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Woolley Colliery special site visit 15th July 2015
Colin Booker has been in contact with The Coal Authority and has managed to arrange a special one-off visit to the minewater treatment plant at Woolley Colliery, Haigh. The visit will take place at 1:00pm on Wednesday 15th July and … Continue reading
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Dragonfly event at Walton Colliery Nature Park
Walton Colliery Nature Park Friends Group, supported by Yorkshire Dragon Fly Society, are holding a ‘ Damsels & Dragonflies Event’ on site on Sunday 28th June between 10am and 12noon. If you would like to attend this free event, please … Continue reading
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May field Meeting: Rabbit Ings
Despite blustery, cold conditions more reminiscent of November than early May, we had a good walk around Rabbit Ings, Royston. This was the first visit we have made to this site as a group and, given warmer conditions, I think … Continue reading
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January meeting: Change to programme
Due to unforseen circumstances, the Annual General Meeting will be postponed from the January meeting until the February meeting and there will also be a change of speaker. However, the one thing that remains the same is that the lecture … Continue reading
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Wakefield RSPB Members Group Prestige Lecture
One of the RSPB’s longest serving staff members will be visiting Ossett on Thursday 22 January to give a talk entitled ‘Birds without Borders’, a presentation using some of the latest research findings and illustrated with his own photographs from … Continue reading
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