VILLAGER February 2011
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VILLAGER February 2011 Sponsored by Drakes Broughton & Wadborough with Pirton Parish Council (Collated by Pershore Print) email: [email protected] USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS DBSO Christmas Concert VILLAGER CHAIRPERSON SUE WILLIAMS tel: 01905 840404 EDITOR [email protected] tel: 01386 556629 Many thanks to all the brilliant musicians and dancers at the DBSO RECTOR Revd DON SLOGGETT tel: 01905 840528 Christmas Concert, to the Durant's for excellent mulled wine and mince TODDLER GROUP LYNDSEY BEARD tel: 01905 841923 DB PRE-SCHOOL SUE BALL / LYNNE POPE tel: 07896238294 pies, and, especially, to Moira and Peter Gutteridge for organising such a D B VILLAGE HALL www.dbvh.btik.com tel: 01905 840415 superb event. STOULTON VILLAGE HALL JANE FRASER tel: 01905 840266 DB RANGERS F C IAN WILCOX - SECRETARY tel: 01905 840576 It was a lovely evening. FLADBURY JUNIORS CC IAN WILCOX tel: 01905 840576 Chris and Dusty Rhodes ST BARNABAS FIRST & MIDDLE SCHOOL PAUL KILGALLON tel: 01905 840366 PERSHORE HIGH SCHOOL CLIVE CORBETT tel: 01386 552471 SOUTH WORCS COMMUNITY TRUST Enquiries tel: 01386 502000 PERSHORE MEDICAL PRACTICE All Services tel: 0844 4773055 ABBOTSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE Appointments tel: 01386 552424 Mon - Fri 9am-2pm Prescriptions tel: 01386 561143 LOST YOUR COPY ? WORCESTERSHIRE ROYAL HOSPITAL tel: 01905 763333 Missed a recent advert/article? PERSHORE HOSPITAL tel: 01386 502070 Why not check out the villager in colour on line at PERSHORE PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPT tel: 01386 502073 www.drakesbroughton.com Or visit the new St Barnabas School Website COMMUNITY SAFETY & SERVICES POLICE PERSHORE AREA tel: 08457 444888 www.st-barnabasfirstmiddle.worcs.sch.uk [email protected] Local PC 3243 Sean Woods ext 3647 tel: 0300 333 3000 Non Emergency. tel: 0300 333 3000 A big thank you to all residents of Pirton who contributed CRIMESTOPPERS tel: 0800 555111 £112.13 for the 2010 Poppy Appeal. Paul Lampit PARISH COUNCIL CLERK MICHELLE ELLIOTT for playing fields, street lighting. tel: 01905 841564 Deadline for copy for the next issue is 10th February WYCHAVON DISTRICT COUNCIL tel: 01386 565000 Any articles received after this date may be placed in the next issue for abandoned vehicles, dog fouling, litter removal etc tel: 01386 565257 [email protected] WASTE MANAGEMENT OFFICER tel: 01386 565245 DISTRICT COUNCILLOR P MIDDLEBROUGH tel: 01905 821732 HIGHWAYS PARTNERSHIP tel: 01386 565000 (road repairs/safety, verge cutting) The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the TRADING STANDARDS tel: 01905 765373 committee,To advertise nor can yourthe committeebusiness in be‗VILLAGER‘ held responsible please contact.for the accuracy of ENVIRONMENT AGENCY Emergency number tel: 0800 807060 any advertisementPeter Barrington. or article. 11, Magnolia The editor Close, reserves Drakes the Broughton, right to edit or précis THE SAMARITANS 24 hours tel: 0345 90 90 90 articles WR10submitted 2AZ. wherever email details necessary. to: [email protected] 01905 841602 (E&OE) 2 23 (Continued from page 21) BIRD AND NATURE NOTES by Paul Rhodes Review of the Year Part 2- July to December 2010 a Saturday whist evening every fortnight for around 20 elderly residents of sheltered housing in Pershore – duties include July continued as June ended, with hot sunny weather, but by mid- month the weather had broken and thereafter periods of showers organising refreshments, purchasing small prizes, collecting subs, and rain interspersed with occasional warm sunny days became the norm till the and arranging lifts. This event will sadly close if no-one can be found end of the summer. Blackbirds and robins were feeding second broods, and a to run it. Can you help please? party of 10 lesser whitethroats was seen near Egdon. 25 swift over White Ladies Aston was a good record.12 species of butterfly were recorded in the Millennium Planning this year‘s holidays? Do something different in 2011! Wood including common blue and brown argus. Painted ladies continued to be Canal camp volunteers scarce with only singletons seen during the month. A peregrine was noted late month over Stoulton. Large groups of swifts were then seen moving south on the Canal Camps are designed to restore the derelict canals of England 30th pointing to a major exodus back to their wintering grounds. August An early and Wales, giving volunteers the chance to help the environment oak green bush cricket was seen on the 1st and a grass snake at Windmill Hill. A whilst having a fun holiday. There are 22 canal camps - some of the very late beautiful demoiselle was noted on the 6th by the Hawbrook, and a tasks include restoring a length of the Montgomery Canal in nuthatch was heard briefly in Stoulton (a scarce bird in the village) a coal tit, also Shropshire, the continuing excavation, restoration and rebuilding of a scarce bird, was seen in St Edmunds churchyard. Finally at the month‘s end a Elsey Lock on the Cotswold canals, and constructing a slipway on willow warbler was heard in the Millennium Wood on its way back south. September started mainly cloudy but, during spells of sunshine brimstones and the River Avon in Warwickshire. Volunteers need no previous holly blues were on the wing, these early autumn sightings are normally experience - just willingness to be involved and a good sense of fun! associated with second hatchings from spring breeders. A hobby was seen on the They can learn new skills and be part of a team that makes a huge 4th and regular sightings then continued to the months end, although sadly no difference to the waterways. young were seen this year. Small numbers of swallows and meadow pipits were moving south from mid month onwards, and a wheatear was in a stubble field at th Residential Holiday Helpers Stoulton on the 16 ; there were fewer red admirals on the wing this autumn. On the 17th a tree pipit (3rd parish record) flew over the Millennium Wood, and a Around 1 in 4 families are affected by disability in some way, and the garden warbler was seen by the Hawbrook. By the end of the month chance of a break, either for respite or refreshment, is really yellowhammer numbers in the wheat stubbles around Stoulton had increased to important. Residential centres in Southampton, Chigwell, Southport over 30 birds and a female merlin overflew Stoulton on the 26th(2nd Parish and Cornwall provide facilities for disabled people and carers, and record).The first hint of winter was the sighting of a redwing on the 28th.October help disabled guests enjoy their much-needed break. Training and started warm and the nuthatch first noted in Stoulton in July, was joined by a second bird, they then continued to be seen and heard in gardens and on feeders support will be given at the Centre and relevant expenses paid. rd to the end of the year. After heavy rain on the 3 the flood relief channel at Claverdon saw a record 35 mallard! More redwings were seen on the 4th, together with the first returning siskin. Hornets were regularly seen, particularly in the For information please contact Val Jackman, Volunteer Recruitment Co- Millennium Wood. By the 20th the first lesser redpolls were in evidence and a flock ordinator, Pershore Volunteer Centre, Charlotte Offices, New Road, of 20 golden plover briefly took up residence close to Stoulton.The first fieldfares Pershore. 01386 554299 ext 223 [email protected] (Continued on page 4) 3 22 were quite late arrivals on the 21st. Unprecedented hard frosts on the 24th and the 25th (-3˚C) were an early warning of what was to follow! There was a brief respite TOP 5 VOLUNTEERING in early November a flock of 500+ wood pigeon were around Stoulton, 400 + OPPORTUNTIES fieldfare in and around Egdon and 120 starling, with a party of15 greenfinch were seen feeding in the yews in Stoulton churchyard. A remarkable 55 stock doves Valentine‘s Volunteers (for singles who love the outdoors!) were in the winter wheat fields east of Stoulton village on the 15th .The onset of foggy, then wet weather led to the start of the great freeze on the 24th .From this Join us for a morning of log chopping and making new point on the weather deteriorated rapidly. Sightings of birds away from feeders friends at Tiddesley Wood on Sunday, 13 February 2011. and gardens were few in number and mainly confined to siskin, redpolls and Wellies essential – you‘ll get muddy! groups of winter thrushes. A hard frost (-10˚C) occurred on the 27th and ponds and lakes rapidly froze, coinciding with this a common snipe was seen regularly To book a free place, or for details of other outdoor on the Hawbrook. Despite the weather a mistle thrush was defiantly in song on opportunities, please call the telephone number below for the 28th! On the 30th an inch of snow settled and a male sparrowhawk terrorised details. birds around feeders in Stoulton. December started with snow flurries, but no one could have predicted the snow and severe frosts to come. Birds became increasingly frantic to find food, particularly blackbirds and fieldfares, who were Interested in retail? grateful for windfall apples in the orchards at Wolverton and in gardens. A reed We are looking for volunteers for a number of charity shops bunting was seen briefly at Claverdon sewage works on the 6th. The waxwing invasion finally reached our parishes with a single bird on hawthorns in the in the area. Millennium Wood on the 10th , 9 were seen briefly in Norton and over 30 birds The daily tasks involve dealing with customers, sorting, seen in Station Road, Pershore.19 goosander were seen flying south over preparing and pricing stock, also maintaining the shop Claverdon, (the first parish record), on the 11th.