by Sarah Kearney | Oct 19, 2023 | Uncategorised
Leader: Rob Randall Three members joined the leader on a blustery day, to look for late season insects and grassland fungi. It was sunny as the party ascended via Charmydown Lane. Ivy Bees, Drone-flies and other insects were feeding on the Ivy flowers and Red...
by Sarah Kearney | Oct 19, 2023 | Uncategorised
BNHS and RSPB at Kenfig Pool © Andrew Harrison Leader: Rob RandallThe coach trip to Kenfig was made in the rain but on approaching our destination the weather brightened. After disembarking the party made for Kenfig Pool, the large lagoon at the rear of the dunes....
by Sarah Kearney | May 25, 2023 | Uncategorised
Smallcombe Meadow © Marion Rayner Leader: Marion Rayner On a warm and sunny spring afternoon seven of us gathered on Bathwick Hill to enter the gloriously colourful National Trust meadows that are part of the Bath Skyline Walk. We made our way across a meadow awash...
by Sarah Kearney | Nov 3, 2022 | Uncategorised
Glistening Inkcap © Richard Bottle Leader: Alan Rayner Around twenty members arrived at Friary on a fine morning and were treated to coffee and cake by our hosts Penny and Richard Williamson. Alan had provided a display of named fungal specimens for everyone to...
by Sarah Kearney | Sep 30, 2022 | Uncategorised
Leader: Rob Randall Warm sunny weather ensured that there were plenty of insects on the wing. The first encountered was a large colony of Ivy Bees (Colletes hederae) flying furiously over their burrows. They are not social insects but do live in large colonies,...
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