Canterbury Golf Club's Nature Initiative: Monthly Wildlife Updates
06/18/2024
Nature on the course - Monthly Update 🦋🌸
Canterbury Golf Club is working hard to improve its out-of-play areas for wildlife. Almost all of the site is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) which confers the highest level of protection for nature in the UK.
With that, the club have teamed up with a local wildlife photographer to record the natural beauty of the course and its surrounding woodland, month by month, through the twelve-month period of a year. This documentary project cannot include all of the plants and wildlife present but instead aims to provide a snapshot of what characterises each month.
The beautiful photos showcase the wildlife we captured on the course in April. April's longer day length and warmer sunshine see the blooming of the yellow-flowered Lesser Celandine, white drifts of Greater Stitchwort, Wood Anemones and Bluebells carpeting woodland floors and path edges. This is timed to coincide with the emergence of pollinating insects such as solitary bees, bee-flys with their long mouthparts and Yellow Brimstone and Peacock butterflies.
Our treasured Nightingales have returned from Africa. The males are staking out territory by singing day and night to attract females. They can often be heard close to the 10th and 15th tees.
Other migrant bird species present include Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs and Whitethroats, all singing to establish breeding territories in the woodland and scrub fringing the fairways.
Stay tuned for our next monthly update.
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