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July 2020 July 2020
President - Ian Spalding R O G S
Captain - Neil Middleditch
c/o Mr G R Storey, Secretary road from Bere Regis to Wool. Rush hour was all over and I met only one car,
Vice - Matt March
9 Boswells Close, Bere Regis, BH20 7JE driven by my step son, who knowing it was me stopped for a natter.
Secretary - Guy Storey
Telephone:- 01929 471041
Treasurer - Peter Cheeseman As I walked I was delighted to see red campions, buttercups, bluebells, blue
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violets, celandines and dandelions flowering in abundance each species
showing off its colours in a very dramatic way, far denser and brilliant than in most
Golf Days held every month, usually the last Friday, from February through to October.
Membership currently full. Contact Guy Storey – 471041 for waiting list and details. years. This I suppose is due to the wonderful, sunny and warm spring we have
enjoyed so far. Where the foliage was tall, dark green, abundant, in dominating
V E N U E S 2020 clusters and the small flowers white and in umbels, this was cow parsley at its best
and rather domineering. Starting from the churchyard, where we have had a
Date Venue Trophy Winner
wonderful display of snowdrops since the last week of December and the glorious
6th March Ferndown Golf Club Members Challenge Cancelled yellow of the celandines, which have been in flower on the south facing bank of
the lane down to the church since the middle of January
27th March Rushmore Golf Club GRS Trophy Cancelled
It is now mid February and there are numerous birds about not found in Bere,
24 April Came Down Golf Club Jim Corbin Cup Cancelled including small egrets on the water meadows, numerous buzzards, which can be
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seen hovering around almost daily. One comes to roost in our apple tree and
29th May Salisbury and South Wilts GC Ex-Landlord’s cup Cancelled
then flies off down the lane to find a new roost in the large ash tree growing
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26 June Ashley Wood Golf Club President’s Cup Cancelled beside the lane down to the church. Also greater spotted woodpeckers, which if
not always visible can distinguished by their distinctive calls, akin to their tapping
31st July Bulbury Golf Club Memorial Cup
at the tree trunks on which they spend most of their days .At this moment in time
28th August Dorset Golf and Country Club Captain’s Cup as I look out onto the lawn a magpie looks back at me as though it owns the
place.
25 September Lyme Regis Golf Club Whitbread Pairs
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Visible from the window is the bird table with
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30 October Dibden Golf Centre Zoom Trophy its various feeders, which are now in need of
refilling, so the numbers of smaller birds, which
Mini Tour - 12th-14th June - Llandhydrock GC | AGM - 11th November - are normally visible from the kitchen windows
just aren’t there. These in the past have
Bere Regis Sports Club | Christmas Cup of Good Cheer and Presentation Evening
included all three types of sparrow, finches,
- 5th December at Wareham Golf Club |
numerous tits and even sedge warblers from
down on the water meadows.
Not only are the birds becoming scarcer but
so are the butterflies. We are now in the
second week of June and butterflies have not
yet been seen here, except for one orange
tip, three small whites and a small blue , which
I was unable to get close enough to identify. Butterflies generally are becoming
rarer and rarer. Is it because of what Puccini says in his opera, Madame Butterfly,
They say that overseas
If it should fall into the hands of man
A butterfly is stuck through
With a pin
And fixed to a board.
Ted Cox 14th June 2014

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