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• Bats Are Amazing - Peter Proudlove

  • When
    2 Oct 2024
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    19:30 - 21:30
  • Location
    Quaker Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester LE2 1WP

  The talk will cover a lot of facts about bats, some widely known and some not. This will include the ecology and lifecycle of British bats, their feeding and navigation strategy & illustration of sample species found in Leicestershire and Rutland.  It will also cover a few types of bat from the 1,400 species around the world.
  Peter Proudlove is a member of Leicester Bat Group and will include information about monitoring and care in VC55.

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  Please note our new venue while the Museum is being refurbished.

  Doors open 7 pm for start at 7.30 pm, finish by 9.30 pm.

  

  Photos © Bat Conservation Trust

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• Charnwood Forest Landscape Partnership Project - Isabel Raval, LRWT

  • When
    6 Nov 2024
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    19:30 - 21:30
  • Location
    Quaker Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester LE2 1WP

  Isabel Raval works for Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust as a Project Officer and will be talking about the Charnwood Forest Landscape Partnership Project, focussing on grassland management and restoration.
  

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  Doors open 7 pm for start at 7.30 pm, finish by 9.30 pm.
  

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• The Knepp Project - Kate Moore

  • When
    4 Dec 2024
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    19:30 - 21:30
  • Location
    Quaker Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester LE2 1WP

  General introduction to how the project is developing and Kate’s bird ringing at Knepp.

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  Doors open 7 pm for start at 7.30 pm, finish by 9.30 pm.
  

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• What has happened to our wetland plants? - Geoffrey Hall, The Sowter Memorial Lecture

  • When
    8 Jan 2025
  •  
    19:30 - 21:30
  • Location
    Quaker Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester LE2 1WP

  

  Geoffrey is the BSBI's vascular plant recorder for Leicestershire and Rutland (VC55). Starting in January 2015 he spent much of the next five years walking hundreds of miles over the whole of Leicestershire & Rutland with Steve Woodward and Russell Parry to get enough records into the BSBI's database to satisfy the requirements for the Atlas 2020 project. They visited many aquatic sites and Geoffrey was struck by the general state of them compared with sites that he knows in other areas of Britain. The amount of neglect, infilling, and the adverse effects of pollution were often astonishing, but some water bodies were well looked after. Although corrective action to reverse these problems is certainly possible, the task is not a simple one.  (The photo shows a choked stream at Scalford. Photo: Geoffrey Hall.)
  

  The Sowter Memorial Lecture is dedicated to Frederick Sowter, F.L.S. (1899-1972), one of our early members and an important botanist.

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  Doors open 7 pm for start at 7.30 pm, finish by 9.30 pm.

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• Ants - Ecology and Behaviour - Brian Eversham, CEO Beds, Cambs, & Northants Wildlife Trust

  • When
    5 Feb 2025
  •  
    19:30 - 21:30
  • Location
    Quaker Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester LE2 1WP

  Ants - ecology and behaviour A popular introduction to the British ants, their habitats and behaviour. The most accessible and easily identified of the social insects, with only about 50 species, a handful of which can be found in most gardens, this is a group anyone can get to know, and can add to our understanding.

  This is a joint meeting with Leicestershire and Rutland Entomological Society.

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  Doors open 7 pm for start at 7.30 pm, finish by 9.30 pm.
  

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• Raptors in the Autumn - Orchids in the Spring - some of the Wildlife of the South-West Algarve - Simon Bennett

  • When
    5 Mar 2025
  •  
    19:30 - 21:30
  • Location
    Quaker Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester LE2 1WP

  While not as busy for migrating raptors as Gibraltar, the Sagres peninsula in the south-west Algarve, Portugal is a popular migration watch point for birds of prey. Simon will introduce the area and the birds that pass through and refer to research on the numbers of birds and timing of migration as well as the issue of wind-farms on the migration route.  As a contrast, he will also talk about the wild orchids that can be found in the area in the spring and some of the other interesting wildlife of this unspoilt part of the Algarve.

  Simon Bennett is a member of the Natural History Section and several other local and national wildlife organisations. He has been a birdwatcher since he was a member of the Young Ornithologists' Club in the 1960s and holidays every year in the south-west Algarve in Portugal.

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  Doors open 7 pm for start at 7.30 pm, finish by 9.30 pm.
  

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• The making of Plant Atlas 2020, from field to folio

  • When
    10 Mar 2025
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    19:30 - 21:00
  • Location
    Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
  • Spaces left
    100

  Natural History Section Joint Lecture Dr Oli Pescott PhD Research Scientist

  Registration for this event will open by August. 

  Details to follow shortly

  Attending the lecture

  The lecture is open both to members of the Society and to guests.

  The lecture will take place in Hansom Hall - how to find Hansom Hall.

  The lecture will also be streamed on Zoom. A recording of the lecture may be available to members only.

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• Natural History Section Annual General Meeting and Members' Evening

  • When
    2 Apr 2025
  •  
    19:30 - 21:30
  • Location
    Quaker Meeting House, 16 Queens Road, Leicester LE2 1WP

  The Section's AGM will be followed by refreshments and a chance to meet and talk with other members, after which a few short talks will be given by members.
  

  Quaker Meeting House - link to map

  Doors open 7 pm for start at 7.30 pm, finish by 9.30 pm.
  

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