Curious about past field meetings? Below you can find links to previous field meeting programmes and details of some of the bigger recording events, complete with links to blog posts and other relevant information.
Field meeting programme flyers from recent years:
West Galway Recording Event 2019
The big recording event for 2019 took place in Connemara, West Galway, where 39 people helped to collect around 5500 plant records! See the blog post from John Conaghan to find out more.
Mayo Recording Event 2018
The main Irish recording event of the year - a five-day botanical extravaganza in Mayo - ran from 8th to 12th August and was a huge success! Click on this hashtag: #BSBIMayo2018 to see some of the people who attended and the plants we found, or read posts on our News & Views blog here, here and here.
Last time the BSBI botanists hit Mayo en masse (in 2015), 42 of us managed to collect a whopping 10,824 plant records, including rarities such as Alpine saw-wort and Irish lady's-tresses! As soon as all this year's records have been collated, we'll post the results on this page. Will we match our 2015 results? Watch this space!
Kerry Recording Event 2017
The botanical recording event of the year has now ended but you can read all about the #KerryBSBIevent by clicking this link or this link. It ran from 1st-5th June on the stunning Dingle peninsula, Co. Kerry and was open to all, whether seasoned recorders, botanical beginners or improvers. You didn't even need to be a BSBI member! The event was aimed at helping with recording for Atlas 2020 and we can report that more that 45 participants managed to collect more than 5,700 records over the course of the event.
Right-click to download the flyer and booking form. Leader Rory Hodd and Caroline Mhic Daeid, fellow County Recorder for Kerry, were present throughout, as was BSBI Irish Officer Maria Long. So lots of help and support on offer!
Cork Recording Event 2016
The event was really great fun, with targeted recording in some of the most spectacular scenery in Ireland, rough crew teams tackling mountains, and evening activities too! We were based in the Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) village of Ballyvourney, at the beautiful Mills Inn.
Here we set up base camp, planned our routes, ate in the evenings, and discussed our finds and mapped our progress.Over the course of the four day event, 37 people took part, many of them local, and nearly 4,000 records were collected. A fantastic event and a fantastic success.
Mayo Recording Event 2015
Aimed at helping with recording for Atlas 2020, the Mayo Recording Week 2015 was a phenomenal success! 42 botanists took part, and collected a whopping 10,824 plant records from 132 monads (1x1 kmsqs) in 33 hectads (10x10 kmsqs) all across Co. Mayo in 8 days. It was great fun with lots of new contacts and friends made.