Calendar of Events – Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club

2023

Month	Day	Monthly Meeting Speaker – topic	Day	Excursion Leader – topic	Day	Other Event
Feb	Fri 10^th	Georgie Custance (Threatened Species Conservancy), “Grevillea obtecta project and app”	Sat 11^th	Georgie Custance, “Grevillea obtecta project and app”	Mon 13^th	Roadside Clean-up
Mar	Fri 10^th	AGM; John Lewis (Marine Biologist) “The Southern Australian Marine Flora – Diversity and Change”	Sat 11^th	Rosemary & Peter Turner, “Tullaroop Reservoir – birds, plants and history walk”
Apr	Fri 14^th	Ben Kurek (Entomological Society of Victoria), “Huntsman Spiders”	Sat 15^th	Cathrine Harboe-Ree and David Elliott, “Smith’s Reef, early orchids and other wildflowers”. Combined trip with ANOS.	Fri 7^th 28-30^th	Good Friday Autumn SEANA – Port Campbell, hosted by Timboon FNC
May	Fri 12^th	Lisa Cox, “Coliban Water’s biodiversity program”	Sat 13^th	Kylie McLennan (Coliban Water), “McCay Reservoir”	Mon 15^th	Roadside clean-up
Jun	Fri 9^th	Louise Saunders, “Botanical art – increasing environmental awareness”	Sat 10^th	TBA
Jul	Fri 14^th	Matt West (Uni Melb Zoology), “Protecting frogs from the chytrid fungus”	Sat 15^th	TBA
Aug	Fri 11^th	Tracy Lyten and Fiona Jackson (Skylos Ecology),”The Role of Detection Dogs in Conservation”	Sat 12^th	TBA	Mon 14^th	Roadside clean-up
Sept	Fri 8^th	Jane Rusden “Birding in SA Desert Country”, combined meeting with Birdlife Castlemaine & District	Sat 9^th Sun 10th	pm Roy Pails, “Wildlife Sanctuary, Ballarat”. am Emily Noble, “Orchid search with Ballarat FNC”.	Weds	Wednesday Wildflower Wanders
Oct	Fri 13^th	Sophie Bickford (Central Victorian Biolinks Alliance), “Landscape Restoration”	Sat 14^th	TBA	20^th-23^rd	Springtime SEANA – Yarram, Latrobe/Sale FNCs
Nov	Fri 10^th	TBA	Sat 11^th	TBA	Mon 13^th 24^th-27^th	Roadside clean-up Great Southern Bioblitz
Dec	Fri 8^th	Members’ night	Tues 12^th	Picnic

Previous Calendars: 2022