Recorders' Conference 2020

Our keynote speaker was Steve Garland, Entomologist and Chair of The Wildlife Trusts England Committee who talked about 'Recording Recovery - Biological Recording for a Wilder Future." The main room contained displays and posters from a range of recorders and societies:

• Cumbria Dragonfly Atlas Online
• Cumbria Lichen and Bryology Group
• Macro photography demonstration using a laptop and plug in camera
• Cumbria GeoConservation
• Get Cumbria Buzzing
• Cumbria Amphibian and Reptile Group
• Digitally colour coding red squirrel fur and the potential conservation applications
• Searching for Chrysolina oricalcia
• Found Species: Tufted Loostrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora)
• Second Hand Natural History books for sale
• Cumbria Fungi Identification Guide for sale

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Recorders' Conference 2018

This year recorders watched the first camera footage of a Pine Marten in Cumbria and learned more about their hitch hiking behavior from Kevin O'Hara Project Officer Vincent Wildlife Trust.  Delegates also heard about:

• Rural and wildlife crime
• Moth recording without a trap
• Slow-worm Project Update
• Recording Geological Sites
• LOST - Looking out for Small Things

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Recorders' Conference 2017

Recorders joined our Annual Conference to hear talks that included:

• National Biodiversity Network Changes and the impact on the future of CBDC
• Earthworms
• Slow worms
• House mouse project
• Stories from the Wildlife Register CBDC Recording Day highlights

Recorders' Conference 2016

89 recorders joined our Annual conference to hear about:

• Hydroscape - a study of British Freshwaters – Dr Alan Law
• UK Dung Beetle Mapping Project – Ceri Watkins

Local recording updates included:

• Cumbria Fungi Group – Paul Nichol
• House mouse project
• Swifts in the Community – Bryan Yorke
• Bats in Trees – Rich Flight
• Mapping Cumbria’s Dragonflies – David Clarke
• Ecosystem Canaries – Peter Woodhead
• Trail Cameras and Recording Technology – John Martin

Recorders' Conference 2015

Topics included:

• Launch of the Cumbria Bird Atlas – Stephen Westerberg, Cumbria Bird Club
• Movements of Wintering Gees and Swans on the Solway – Frank Mawby
• Finding and Monitoring Dormice in Cumbria – Tony Marshall
• Lost and Found Fungi Project – Brian Douglas, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
• Alien vs Predator – the Harlequin ladybird in Britain, Richard Comont
• Cumbria Geoconservation Group and the Local Geological Sites

Recorders' Conference 2014

Presentations included:

• What would Darwin Tweet? – Richard Burkmar
• Polecats and Pine Martins – Elizabeth Croose, Vincent Wildlife Trust
• CBDC Habitat Connectivity Projects – Moustafa Eweda
• Recording Cumbria’s bats – Rich Flight
• Lichens of Cumbria – Allan Pentecost
• What’s at Witherslack – Jim Thomas