The Ambleside Natural History Society meets in a spirit of friendship and goodwill to share in all aspects of natural history, geology, the countryside, its scenery, its flora and fauna, its use, its buildings, its history, the activities of its inhabitants, etc. Almost nothing is excluded.
Non-members are welcome to attend our meetings at a charge of £3.
Next Meeting
Saturday 14 May
Field Trip to Gait Barrows
Gait Barrows is a limestone pavement area about 45 minutes from Ambleside. Lady slipper orchid is on site although flowering is a bit later than the date of our trip. It is also the site of the BooM Team’s hazel dormouse reintroduction.
We are planning to meet at 10AM at the reserve car park. If the car park is full, additional parking is available along the roadside near the track. We plan to do a walk around first and then there will be the option of an activity in the afternoon.
Please bring along some food for a Jacob’s Join lunch after the walk.
A guide to travel to Ambleside Campus can be found at this link with a campus map in the section on cycling.
The Percival Lecture Theatre is in the Langdale Building, number 5 on the map.
The alternative venue is the Beehive, building number 2 on the map.
If you turn in at The Armitt Museum, park in the car parks at the bottom of the hill (free in the evenings) then walk up the hill. The Beehive is the single storey building on your right, the Langdale Building is slightly further, up the steps to the flat area and is again on your right.
The committee always welcomes suggestions for future talks; if you have suggestions for talks, comments on what we are doing or if you want to become a member email us at ambleside.nhs@gmail.com.
Our programmes for the last three years are available at the heading tab. Below you can find links to brief reports and photos of our field trips in May each year and what has now become the annual swift survey in Ambleside.
Local outdoor activities in July 2021
In July we held a couple of excellent outdoor activities for members.
Swifts in Ambleside
Following a talk on swifts to ANHS by Peter Moreton in April 2019, Pete Martin set up a small group to monitor swifts and their nest sites in Ambleside each summer.
Click on the links to read Pete’s reports of their observations.