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Here is the Summer Programme of excursions for 2008. Please click on the underlined dates for joining instructions and further details, which will be added as they become available. Non-members who wish to attend any of the excursions should email the Excursion Secretary for more information.

A Health and Safety awareness document has been prepared for the club. Please read it carefully and also make sure that any guests you may bring on field trips are made aware of it. Copies of the document will be available at each excursion event.

Saturday 3 May 2008
Ballycultra, Ulster Folk Museum

Tuesday 6 May 2008
Members' Evening

Saturday 10 May 2008
Boyne Valley (Geology / Archaeology & History)

Tuesday 3 June 2008
Gasworks Building, Belfast (Archaeology & History)

Saturday 7 June 2008
Murlough National Nature Reserve, Co.Down (Zoology)
Joint meeting with Butterfly Conservation NI

Tuesday 10 June 2008
Hazelbank Park, Newtownabbey, Co.Antrim (Botany)

Saturday 14 June 2008
Coalisland brick clays, Co.Tyrone (Geology)

Saturday 21 June 2008
Cookstown area, Co.Tyrone (Botany)

Sunday-Wednesday 29 June - 2 July 2008
Westport and Clare Island

Saturday 2 August 2008
Kearney and Ballyquintin, South Ards Peninsula, Co.Down (Botany)

Tuesday 5 August 2008
Raths in the Banbridge area, Co.Down (Archaeology & History)

Saturday 9 August 2008
Presidential excursion (by coach to Co.Tyrone)

Tuesday 12 August 2008
North Down Coastal Path (Botany)

Tuesday 19 August 2008
Rocky Shore Ramble - Kircubbin, Co.Down (Zoology)

Saturday 30 August 2008
South Down Miscellany (Archaeology & History)

Saturday 13 September 2008
Richhill, Co.Armagh (by coach) (Archaeology & History)

Saturday 20 September 2008
Family Day to Slievenacloy, Belfast Hills, Co.Antrim
Joint meeting with Ulster Wildlife Trust

Saturday 4 October 2008
Fungus Foray - Rowallane, Co.Down (Botany)

Saturday 7 October 2008
Conversazione
Manor House, Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

Saturday 22 November 2008
Tree planting during National Tree Week (Botany)

Saturday 29 November 2008
Morning at Belfast Lough Reserve, Harbour Estate, Co.Down (Zoology)



Specimens collected during Fungus Foray, Barnett's Park, October 2001