Meet at 10:30 h in the village centre, grid ref. SE 834703, for 1 km recording.

 

Marine meeting. This field meeting will visit some old favourite shores (e.g. Dogs Bay, Lettermore) and some new sites. These will be mainly in south Connemara, but it is anticipated that there will be at least one day in the northern part of the area, and weather permitting a boat excursion to shores on one of the off-islands. It may be possible to arrange diving for anyone interested. The convenient spring tide times during the week enable easy arrangements for self-catering accommodation (Saturday to Saturday) in the Roundstone area where we will be based.

Joint meeting with Wyre Forest Study Group
Leader: Ron Boyce (0118 935 1413) (home) and Rosemary Winnall (01299 266489) (home) (07732 203393) (mobile)

Meet at 10:30 h at the Wyre Forest Visitor Centre, Callow Hill near Bewdley (DY14 9XQ), grid ref. SO 750740, for further studies on the distribution of slugs within the Forest and their relationship with fungi.

Joint meeting with YNU Coastal Section
Meet at 10:30 h in the car park in Skinningrove, grid ref. NZ 713201. Please note some upper shore work will take place.

This meeting is being held by kind invitation of Judith Nelson at
Hilbre House, Pembroke Road, Woking, Surrey GU22 7ED
(01483 761210) from 10:00 h prompt until approximately 17:00 h
Please note Hilbre is a non-smoking property
Those attending should please bring books to help identification, and a packed lunch. Coffee, tea and biscuits are provided.

YNU/YCS Malham Tarn meeting. Conchological Society members welcome.

Meet at Kew Gardens Railway Station (London Underground, District Line, Richmond branch and the North London Line) (map reference TQ 192767) at 12:00 h.   The low tide is late in the day (about 18:20 h) so we will look at two local Balea biplicata sites first and then make our way to the River Thames.   There is an exposure near Chiswick Bridge of a subfossil deposit (about 300 years old) on the foreshore near low tide mark that contains an interesting assemblage of freshwater molluscs.   Corbicula fluminea is now well established in the area and

Haugh Woods are about 350 ha in extent and are situated on the Woolhope Dome about 5 miles southeast of Hereford. This is a limestone area nationally important for butterflies and moths but in which molluscs are under-recorded. From Hereford, take the B4224 towards Ross-on-Wye. At Mordiford turn left just after the ‘Moon’ pub, then follow the signs for Haugh Wood and Woolhope. The main car park is about 2 miles along this road on the left hand side. There are no toilets.

The Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland is generally very much under-recorded, and we hope to remedy this to some extent by visiting various woodland sites in Dumfries-shire, most of which are, unusually for this area, on base-rich soils.

On 21 May, meet at 10:00 h at the lay-by near Stenhouse Cottage next to Stenhouse Wood SSSI (NX 797931) on the minor road that turns off north-west from the road between Tynron and Moniaive. In the afternoon we shall move on to Chanlockfoot SSSI (NX 802990).

Meet at 10:30 h at the main car park in Gargrave, grid ref. SD 932543.