Full details of national meetings are on the BSBI Field Meetings & Indoor events page, and on the country, vice-county or local group webpage as appropriate. Some vice-counties may move the date of their meetings from those given here, so do check with the vice-county contact. Many of the dates are provisional and more meetings will be added as the year progresses.
If your local meeting is not listed here and you would like it to be included, please send the details to Jonathan Shanklin, Hon. Field Meetings Secretary.
Abbreviations: Type: B = Beginners, G=General, R=Recording, S=Specialist, T=Training.
VC = Vice-County.
Other organisations: BBS = British Bryological Society; BPS = British Pteridological Society Scottish Group; BSS = Botanical Society of Scotland.
Date | Location / Subject | v.c. | Type | Organiser |
2020 | ||||
March 20 | Urr Water (TBC) | 73 | G | VC |
March 22 | Hardwick Wood | 29 | GR | VC |
March 28 | Regional Recorders Workshop | 32 | S | BSBI |
March 28 | Dublin / Irish Spring Conference | H21 | G | Country |
March 29 | Brompton Cemetery | 21 | G | Local |
March 29 | Coton Countryside Reserve | 29 | G | Local |
April 4 | Kippford | 73 | G | VC |
April 12 | Harefield Woods | 21 | G | Local |
April 17 | Southwick | 73 | G | VC |
April 18 | Warburton’s Wood | 58 | GR | VC |
April 23 | TBC | 29 | GR | VC |
April 25 | Coton Countryside Reserve | 29 | B | BSBI |
April 26 | Coton Countryside Reserve | 29 | G | Local |
May 1 – 4 | Portpatrick / Taraxacum | 74, 75 | S | BSBI |
May 2 | Little Ross & Fauldbog Bay | 73 | G | VC |
May 9 | Rothesay | 100 | G | BSBI |
May 13 | Crieff | 88 | G | BSBI/BSS |
May 16 | Cream of Galloway | 73 | G | VC |
May 16 | Birks O’Aberfeldy | 88 | BR | BSBI |
May 17 | Parkgate | 58 | GR | VC |
May 23 | Kings Dyke Nature Reserve | 29 | GR | VC |
May 23 | Ligoneil Mill Dams and Forth River Glen | H39 | G | BSBI |
May 27 | Coton Countryside Reserve | 29 | G | Local |
May 27 | Crown Farm quarry | 58 | GR | VC |
May 29 | Glenstocken | 73 | G | VC |
May 30 | Potteric Carr Nature Reserve | 63 | GR | Local |
May 31 | Edinburgh / Identifying Plant Families | 83 | BT | BSBI |
June 6 | Tarn Moss, Eycott Hill / Sedges | 70 | T | BSBI |
June 6 | Dumfries / Sedges and Rushes workshop | 72 | BT | BSBI |
June 7 | Kinvara area / Orchids | H15 | G | BSBI |
June 12 | Floors Loch & Torrs Moss | 73 | G | VC |
June 13 | Salisbury Plain | 8 | G | BSBI |
June 13 | Kinross / Sedges and Rushes workshop | 85 | BT | BSBI |
June 14 | Hilbre Island | 58 | GR | VC |
June 17 | Chesterton | 29 | GR | Local |
June 20 – 21 | Great Yarmouth North Denes SSSI and the Broads | 27 | G | BSBI |
June 21 | Roscarbery | H3 | G | BSBI |
June 24 | Coton Countryside Reserve | 29 | G | Local |
June 25 | Muir of Ord | 106 | G | BSBI/BSS |
June 26 – 28 | Bangor / Wales Annual Meeting and AGM | 49 | G | Country |
June 27 | Barfil | 73 | G | VC |
June 27 | Birnam / Grasses workshop | 88 | BT | BSBI |
June 27 – July 3 | Barra Islands | 110 | R | BSBI |
June 28 | Staines Moor | 21 | R | BSBI |
June 28 | TBC | 29 | GR | VC |
June 28 | Fishlake | 63 | G | BSBI |
July 4 | Farndon | 58 | GR | VC |
July 4 | Slieve Blooms | H14 | G | BSBI |
July 5 | Ranscombe Farm | 16 | B | BSBI |
July 5 | Clowes Wood | 38 | GR | BSBI |
July 10 | Cavens, Kirkbean | 73 | G | VC |
July 10 – 13 | Melrose / Annual Summer Meeting | 80 | GR | BSBI |
July 11 | Toton Sidings | 56 | G | BSBI |
July 11 | Hamilton / Grasses workshop | 77 | BT | BSBI |
July 12 | Baltray | H31 | G | BSBI |
July 13 – 20 | Glynhir | 44 | G | BSBI |
July 18 | Aberlady | 82 | BG | BSBI |
July 18 | Ennis area | H9 | G | BSBI |
July 23 | Cambridge Guided Busway | 29 | GR | VC |
July 24 – 27 | Caerdeon | 48 | G | BSBI |
July 25 | Cambridgeshire / Elms | 29 | ST | BSBI |
July 25 | Corserine | 73 | G | VC |
July 25 | Ben Lawers / Grasses, Sedges, Rushes | 88 | T | BSBI |
July 25 | Glenshee & The Cairnwell | 89, 92 | GS | BSBI |
July 25 | Ardnahinch beach | H5 | GT | BSBI |
July 26 | Birks O’Aberfeldy | 88 | BR | BSBI |
July 29 | Coton Countryside Reserve | 29 | G | Local |
August 1 | Northwich | 58 | GR | VC |
August 2 | Murvagh | H34 | GT | BSBI |
August 7 – 9 | Auchencairn/Kirkcudbright / Brambles | 73 | T | BSBI |
August 8 | Dimmock’s Cote quarry | 29 | GR | VC |
August 14 | Dundrennan | 73 | G | VC |
August 16 | Coton Countryside Reserve | 29 | G | Local |
August 22 | Pumlumon | 46 | GR | BSBI |
August 22 | Cat & Fiddle area | 58 | GR | VC |
August 29 | RSPB Nene Washes | 29 | G | VC |
August 29 | Moorbrock & Beninner | 73 | G | VC |
September 11 | Windy Standard | 73 | G | VC |
September 12 | Neston | 58 | GR | VC |
September 19 | Cherry Hinton / Cotoneasters | 29 | T | BSBI |
September 26 | Great Shelford meadows | 29 | GR | VC |
September 26 | Criffel | 73 | G | VC |
September 26 | Dublin / Irish Autumn Meeting and AGM | H21 | G | BSBI |
October 9 | Lotus Hill | 73 | G | VC |
October 10 | Newmarket | 29 | GR | VC |
October 24 | TBC | 73 | G | VC |
October 31 | RBGE / Scottish Botanists’ Conference | 83 | G | Country |
November 21 | NHM, London / AEM & AGM | 21 | G | BSBI |
2021 | ||||
January 1 | Cambridge, The Backs | 29 | GR | Local |
May 21 – 28 | Guernsey / Annual Summer Meeting | 113 | G | BSBI |
November | CEH, Wallingford / AEM & AGM | 23 | G | BSBI |