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Welcome to the Grimsby & Cleethorpes Area Group of the
...Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.
Greetings to all our members!
The aim of this website is to be an easy-to-use addition for
our group.With that in mind, this, the Front Page, has
a calendar of events plus a number of links to other pages. Positioning your
cursor on images will reveal a caption.
Clicking on the underlined green headings
should take you straight to that page or a linked website.
If it doesn't, e-mail the webmistress: sue@imps.demon.co.uk and whinge...
Last updated: 16th April, 2008. |
Most Recent Additions:
1. NEW! Cowslip Count on 26th April added to the Calendar of Events.
2. Summer events added to the Calendar of Events
3. A Guided Winter Walk at the
Blow Wells
an account by Clifford Jukes in Past and
Present
4. Getting it into perspective (a
personal view)
A brilliant essay by Ray Hume in 'In the News' and a MUST
READ!
Calendar of Events
2008
Please note that Monday evening
indoor meetings are held at
Grimsby Town Hall, banqueting room at 7.30 p.m. unless otherwise stated.
Non-members are welome.
There is no entry charge, although we appreciate donations towards the costs.
Disabled access round the left-hand side of the building. (Help is available
from the porter).
If anyone has difficulty getting to meetings, please let one
of the committee know,
and we'll try to link you up with someone who can offer a lift.
If you are a car driver with space to spare, please let us know too.
Greetings to all members!
We hope you will be able to join us for at least some of these very varied events. If you are travelling by car, why not load it to capacity with friends? See below on lifts, too.
NEW! Saturday April 19th: 2.00 p.m. - meet at the new Far Ings Visitor's Centre for a visit to the Centre's facilities - viewing platform, shop, cafe etc., and then a walk round the N.N.R. with a member of Staff. Direction - on coming down the hill from Barton on Far Ings Lane turn right (instead of left as to the old visitor's centre) and then first left. |
Sunday April 20th: "A Wander with the
Wardens" Location: off Church Lane, Tetney. Please park cars along Church Lane by the church and then walk east for about 230 yards, then through the Anglian Water main entrance (high metal gates) on your right and follow the drive towards the pumping station. Grid reference: TA 318007. Total distance: 1½ miles. No dogs please!
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NEW! Saturday April 26th: Cowslip count at Eastfield Road Nature Reserve at 2pm with warden Mark Tyzska |
Monday May 5th. (Bank Holiday): "An Adventure in Botany" Floral identification for beginners with Mick Binnion. Meet in the centre of Bradley Woods at 2pm. |
Sunday May 18th: Tetney Blow Wells Nature Trail and Guided Walk. 1.30 – 4.00 p.m. For the guided walk meet at the pumping station at 2pm (finish about 3.30). Location: off Church Lane, Tetney. Please park cars along Church Lane by the church and then walk east for about 230 yards, then through the Anglian Water main entrance (high metal gates) on your right and follow the drive towards the pumping station. Grid reference: TA 318007. Total distance: 1½ miles. No dogs please! |
Wednesday May 28th: A walk in Mausoleum Woods at Great Limber. Meet in the car park just off the A18 grid. ref. TA134086 at 7pm. This will be led by Colin Rushby. |
Saturday June 21st: "Flowers of Dunes" A gentle walk on the Cleethorpes Sand Dunes Local Nature Reserve. Come and search for and enjoy some of the wildlife in this special habitat. Look carefully (perhaps with a lens?) at the common flowers of the dunes and learn to recognize them. We may also find some of the rarities! Meet at the car park off Kings Road, east of the Boating Lake, near the wooden Miniature Railway Station. Wellingtons are advisable if you want to see everything. Distance to walk - 3km in about 2hrs. Leader Mark Tyzska |
Sunday July 13th: A Summer walk at Tetney Blow Wells. Meet at the church at 2 pm. A 1½ hour stroll in search of, among other things, water violets. No dogs please! |
Saturday August 2nd: A Moth Night 7 pm till late, to be arranged somewhere in the Grimsby Area. Phone Jennie Redpath for details. This event is dependent on reasonable weather. |
Saturday September 6th: "Bird Habitats" A walk at Cleethorpes Country Park followed by Humberston Fitties Meet at country park car park at 9 am. 2 ½ hours approx. Leader Ray Hume. |
Monday 13th October: "A Year in the life of a Wildlife Photographer" For our first indoor meeting of the season at Grimsby Town Hall we have invited expert photographer Geoff Trinder. Together with his wife Chris, Geoff has traveled extensively and his talk will feature shots from many parts of the world. |
For further details of events at Tetney Blow Wells please contact Clifford Jukes.
For all other queries contact Ray Hume.
Re: contact 'phone numbers, please see NOTE at the bottom of this page. Thank you.
Lifts: If you are able to offer a lift to anyone to
any of these events
- or if you would like a lift yourself -
please contact our chairwoman, Jennie Redpath
Reserve Work PartiesIf anyone is interested in volunteering to work at Contact Mark Tyszka, warden, for Eastfield Road reserve. Wildlife WATCH Club A national club for young people who care about the environment, it is also the junior section of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. The registered leader for the group is Clifford Jukes, who will be organizing monthly events. |
Pleased with what you see? We the committee are very proud of the above list of events we have put together, but we want to know that it meets with your approval too; please let us know what you think.
Tell us if the evening meetings are about things that interest you, and if there are subjects that haven't been covered. We have on offer a speaker for the future who talks on A Botanist in Norway, A Botanist in France, and Poisonous Plants in Britain. Let us know which of these you would prefer.
NOTE: Although telephone numbers of committe members are included in the hard copy of our Newsletter, I am not including them on this website. It is an open site and I don't want anyone to be subjected to nuisance calls from some of the more dubious web-surfers who might chance upon the site.
Interestingly, this site has been visited by people in thirty countries world-wide over the past year:
Canada, Australia, the United States (including U.S. Federal
Government Agencies), France, Spain, Italy,
Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, Norway, Finland, Belgium, the Netherlands, New
Zealand, Greece, Turkey,
Cyprus, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Japan, Iceland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania,
the Czech Republic, Brazil,
Mexico, South Africa and La Territoire Français d'Outre-mer, a.k.a.
French Polynesia.
Welcome to all our overseas visitors.
Sue - webmistress.
.people have visited this site since 22nd. OCTOBER 2003.
This website was created on 21st. OCTOBER 2003. - Last updated: 16th APRIL 2008.
The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is an Independent Charity
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