No, not the shambles that are political conferences! For me for a change, it is the season of conferences for biological recorders.
Last weekend I headed over to Birmingham with Adrian Russell and a number of VC55 recorders for the Butterfly Conservation UK Moth Recorders Meeting. Despite being a regular recorder for over two decades, and this meeting having been held annually for around ten years, this is the first time I'd bothered going. Not a bad day out all in all, though most of the presentations were a bit heavy on the stats and a little dry - though given that the main thrust was the recently published Atlas it's maybe not surprising.
In a couple of weeks time, I'm heading down to Oxford for the BENHS Coleopterists Day. Another long-running event that I've never been to, and one that I'm looking forward to. If nothing else it will be good to meet up again with a few PSL listers that I've not seen for a while.
Much closer to home, we have the LRWT Wildlife Recording Conference in March. Always a good day, with a good range of topics that are almost all locally biased. And I'm sure before long we'll also have a date set for a Leics. & Rutland Moth Recorders Meeting.
Should be well on the way to being pumped for the peak entomological season by the end of these meetings!
3 comments:
See you at the Coleopterist's meeting!
Fooksake! I'm heading south just too late to make the coleopterist's meet and heading back norf again before your LRWT meet. In fact, I think I'm missing about everything! :(
Yes, see you there if not at the pre-meet big brekkie shin-dig.
Seth, you are clearly much better at meticulously researching the nads of a gnat than planning your time in the southern badlands.
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