Sunday 1 August 2010 | NHSN | Botany: Bardon Mill and Beltingham

The River South Tyne, between Bardon Mill and Beltingham, contains a complex of gravel bars that are now vegetated over.

Some of these contain lead, zinc and cadmium from mining upstream, and support calaminarian grassland.

We will look at two contrasting areas,
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June 22nd, 2010 | Category: August 2010, Exhibitions, Great North Museum: Hancock, Natural History Society of Northumbria |

Saturday 14 August 2010 | NHSN | Geology: An Introduction to Glacial Sediments at Whitburn Bay

Whitburn Bay has outstanding exposures of sediments deposited during the last glacial episode (about 26 to 15 ka BP).

Recent detailed studies by Bethan Davies at Durham University
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June 7th, 2010 | Category: August 2010, Exhibitions, Great North Museum: Hancock, Natural History Society of Northumbria |

Sunday 18 July 2010 | NHSN | Botany: Emblehope Moor

We last visited this magnificent blanket bog, on the watershed between North Tynedale and Redesdale, ten years ago.

The moor is famous for its only known Northumberland colony of dwarf birch Betula nana ‐
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June 2nd, 2010 | Category: Exhibitions, Great North Museum: Hancock, July 2010, Natural History Society of Northumbria |

Saturday 17 July 2010 | NHSN | Mammals: Seal walk in Teesside

We will be visiting one or possibly two sites in the Tees estuary to watch the seals hauling out at low tide. We expect to get good views of Common Seals with pups and maybe the odd Grey Seal for comparison, and there may be a chance to catch a glimpse of an otter.
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May 26th, 2010 | Category: Exhibitions, Great North Museum: Hancock, July 2010, Natural History Society of Northumbria |

Saturday 18 September 2010 | NHSN | Mammals: Marine Mammals and Birds of the North Sea

The boat will leave Seahouses promptly and we expect to be out for about 4 hours.

We hope to get good views of Grey Seal, possibly some dolphin and small whale species, together with a range of adult and immature seabirds.
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May 25th, 2010 | Category: Exhibitions, Great North Museum: Hancock, Natural History Society of Northumbria, September 2010 |

Saturday, 19 June, 2010 - Entomology: Bugs and Botany at Close House

On Saturday 19 June we will be holding our annual “Day Out” at Close House.

This year there will be lots of opportunities to catch and identify insects plus chances to see some of the experiments on plant ecology that are running at the Close House Field Station.
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May 21st, 2010 | Category: Exhibitions, Family, June 2010, Natural History Society of Northumbria |
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