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BOBRON'S EDITORIAL
Welcome to another issue of the Field Club
Bulletin.
As we write this, Spring is nearly in the air.
Leafless hedges are tinged in places with green and
yellow where the hazel catkins are beginning to
ripen and spread their pollen in the wind. On the
ground below them the fresh green sheets of Dogs
Mercury are already bearing flowers, tiny, green
and insignificant they may be, but flowers all the
same. At Great Leighs at this late end of February
a small copse is white with snowdrops, while the
leaves of the arum lily or cuckoo pint are beginning
to uncurl. In fields the hares are to be seen racing
zig-zag fashion and soon it will be time for their
March madness before the crops put on a spurt and
they are lost of view in the growing corn.
We have a variety of articles for you. Our
thanks to be authors concerned, also to Lydia Malim
for an excellent cover illustration and to those
others who supplied the sketches within. Please keep
your articles and sketches coming in, ready for the
Autumn issue.
We look forward to meeting you all again during
the coming months and wish you all a most interesting
year.
End of Bobron
PRINCIPAL CONTENTS page
Personally speaking - David Scott 3
Little Ringed Plovers at Chigwell - Peter Relph 7
Trees in Hylands Park - Tony Boniface 12
Book Reviews - David Corke 15
Reports of Meetings 25
Future Meetings summary 32
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