This weekend sees two meetings with the emphasis on plant galls.  If you want to learn from the experts then the Anston Stones Wood meeting is the one to go for as this is a meeting of members of the British Plant Gall Society. Saturday 27th September we shall visit Anston Stones Wood and park by the  Parish […]

Doncaster Naturalists’ Society Field Meeting to Conisborough Parks Pt. 3 Saturday 20th September 2025 Title: Conisborough Parks: Wildlife on the Solar Parks site (Pt 3). Leaders: Louise Hill and Colin Howes. Meet:1.30 pm at Hilltop Pub on the A630 at SK4958 9752 Post Code DN12 2AY. Call in to pub for refreshment to justify using car park. Aims: To […]

The next meeting is on Friday 12th September to Tickhill with Colin Howes. Meet at 1.30 p.m. at the cul-de-sac off Worksop Rd/Lindrick Rd SK58819283, DN11 9NQ. Colin intends to examine four of Tickhill’s interesting ginnels looking for wall ferns and other flora and fauna. The distance of the walk is 1.8 miles. Afterwards, if […]

The next meeting is on Saturday 6th September. Thorne Community Woodland (Formerly Bunting’s Wood) was developed as mixed deciduous and coniferous woodland over former arable land. We hope to become familiar with the site and provide preliminary species information for the Local Authority Biodiversity Database. Meet at 1:30pm in Car Park off Lock Lane, near […]

The next meeting is on Wednesday 27th August to Woodfield Country Park. Meet outside the entrance to St Catherine’s Hall at 1.30 p.m. Postcode DN4 8QP Park in either of three free car parks near the Hall. The leader is Colin Howes. Aims: To visit the Woodland Nature Trail through the perimeter plantation woodland, walk […]

Leader – Colin Howes with assistance from Billy Collins Meet : 11 a.m. at Park Farm Cottages DN12 2AW (SK 507970) on Saturday 23rd August. Parking is available there. Objective : To record natural history on the Farm and disused railway track. (bring lunch). Colin has gained permission from the owner to survey this property […]

The next meeting on the programme is this coming Friday 22nd August to Thorpe Marsh for pond dipping and to look for Willow Emerald Damselflies. Meet at 1.30 at the level crossing on Applehurst Lane SK539912. Post code DN6 0EA. Approach from the direction of the village of Thorpe-in-Balne, go down Applehust Lane and go […]

Dear Members of the Doncaster Naturalists’ Society While it lasts, you’ve got to come and see this!!! The free-floating carnivorous plant the Bladderwort, a rarity in the Old Canals area of Thorne Moors National Nature Reserve, has turned up on Hatfield Moors and can be seen in bloom on-mass in one (perhaps several) of the […]

The next meeting is on Tuesday 12th August to Austerfield Nature Reserve to look for dragonflies. Meet at 2.00 at the entrance, DN10 6RG. The leader is Jim Burnett. Austerfield nature reserve has good paths and it will involve a walk of less than 2Km. There is on road parking nearby. Regards Margaret Prior

The next meeting is this coming Wednesday July 30th an evening session at Cusworth Park to monitor the Green Flowered Helleborine and walk around the grasslands, lakes and woodlands. Colin will be taking his bat detector to monitor the bats. Meet at 6.30 at Keepers Cottage. Please note that the car park closes at 9pm […]