October meetings

Date	Subject	Organised by	Location
Diary Exchange Final Quarter of the Year. I am taking a chance on the weather this October and arranging two outdoor meetings open to all members who are keen to enjoy the events, but aimed also at diary exchange for selected parishes. There is also one indoor meeting for Lezant Parish Oct 7th Altarnun and St Clether Diary Exchange and Coastal Walk Oct 11th Lezant Diary Exchange and presentation of wildlife information from 2007 Oct 13th North Hill and North Petherwin Diary Exchange and a walk exploring Hedgerow Dating
Oct 7th Sunday 10.15 am	North Cornwall Coast Walk Diary Exchange Altarnun and St Clether	Gill Nichols (01840 230393) and Brian (01566 774902)	Different Meeting places near Crackington Haven to match length of walk
Altarnun and St Clether Diary exchange. Quarter 4 2007 diaries for Altarnun and St Clether that are not sent by email, will be available at this meeting. As a fall back position, Altarnun Diaries not exchanged will be in the Post Office in Altarnun from Monday 8th October. St Clether Diaries will be with Brenda from the same date. The Walk. Gill has kindly offered to lead us on another of her favourite coastal walks. It is being arranged so that members have a choice of walking distance. The full walk will start at 10.15 from the Post Office in Higher Crackington SX 1566 9551 and will walk 1.5 miles west through Trehole Farm to a layby SW of Trevigue (1348 9511) to join the rest for coffee. Park in the car park of the Crackington Institute opposite the Post Office The short walk starts at Trevigue at 11.15 am and follows the coastal footpath above Strangles beach to Cambeak and Crackington Haven.- a distance of about 2 miles. This is the most scenic part of the walk, along Highcliff, passing the wild goats and places where Gill tells us the parasitic "Dodder" is profuse on the gorse earlier in the year. Lunch will be at The Cabin, Crackington (we need to have numbers for those planning to eat there) where we can get baguettes, pizzas etc. Transport will be available to ferry anyone wanting to end the walk there back to their own cars. The remainder can walk back up the valley on footpaths to Congden's Bridge and then by lanes back to Higher Crackington. The distance of the after dinner walk is 1.5 miles, making the longest walk a total of 5 miles. If the weather is bad we will do the walk the following week, 14th October. If unsure of the weather on the day, contact Brian or Gill.

Oct 11th Thursday 7.30 pm	Diary Exchange Lezant Wildlife Presentation	Irene (01579 370644) and Brian (01566 774902)	Lower Trekenner Farmhouse SX 3423 7825
This is an indoor meeting. I want to be able to show how the new website is developing together with some wildlife images captured during 2007, including a video of Noctule Bats leaving an Oak-tree roost.

Oct 13th Saturday 2.30 pm	*Dating Hedgerows with Terry Faull* Diary Exchange N. Hill and N. Petherwin**	Ian and Serina (01566 785717) and Brian (01566 774902)	North Petherwin Parish Church SX2813 8962
Hedgerows are a key feature of our landscape, especially as we have lost a great deal of unimproved habitat due to farming needs. They play a vital role as wildlife corridors for many species, including Bats. Dating them can be hard. One method (Hoopers Rule) is a count of woody species in a 30 metre length of hedgerow. It was not established for this part of the UK so how valid is it? What DOES it teach us? What else can we use to asses the biodiversity of a hedge? These are some of the things we hope that Terry will be able to talk to us informally about as we explore a couple of selected hedgerows in the North Petherwin Region. Hopefully we will learn enough to apply the approach to some of the ancient hedgerows in our other parishes