The Museum will be open on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October from 10am-4pm.
There will be a range of activities for visitors to enjoy. Details will follow.
FREE ENTRY – Donations welcome.
Category: General
Photography Competition 2024
The Photography Competition for 2024 is NOW OPEN
Send your entries, up to 3 for each category, Landscapes, Plants and Fungi, and Wildlife and each category will be awarded 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Highly Commended for both Adult and “Young Explorers”.
All entries must be taken within Dorset or Hampshire during 2024, and you must be a ‘Young Explorer’ to enter that section of the competition.
***New for 2024*** Young Explorers can now also submit a short video depicting nature.
Please read carefully the attached Terms & Conditions before submission.
As in previous years, we will print a Photobook with the winners and all the entries to the competition.
The deadline is November 30th 2024 and you can email all your photos to: photo@bnss.org.uk along with any enquiries you might have.
There will be an Awards Ceremony held at BNSS 0n 26th April 2025 to which all entrants will be invited. Winners will be contacted in April 2025, prior to this event.
I wish you good luck and every success.Tony Grant (Photography Chair)
Photography Competition 2023 WINNERS
Thank you to everyone who entered the Photography Competition 2023.
View all the Adult Winners and all the Young Explorer entries HERE.
A photo book of all the Entries is now available to purchase at a cost of £12 per copy.
With grateful thanks to Eleni Dimitriou, former Chair of Photography, for organising the Photography Competitions for 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Tony Grant
Chair of Photography
Email: photo@bnss.org.uk
Holes Bay Nature Report
Members may be interested in the Holes Bay Nature Report (NB. This is large document)
The annual Holes Bay Nature Report aims to promote Holes Bay and the surrounding area as a haven for nature; to record and share wildlife sightings and to encourage more records.
The recording area covers Holes Bay itself, the Creekmoor, and PC World Drains, Upton Country Park, and the surrounding farm fields. Records of birds overflying the recording area are also welcome. Sightings can be shared via our Holes Bay Nature Twitter account or by emailing Nick Woods (nick.woods4@btinternet.com)
Holes Bay Nature Team: Martin Adams, Sally & Tony Grant, Jackie & Nick Hull, Steve Smith and Nick Woods.
Bournemouth in Bloom – Winners
Members will be pleased to know that BNSS did well again this year in the Bournemouth in Bloom Competition.
The Ginkgo Biloba came top of the Champion Tree category, winning a Silver Gilt certificate and a shield. The Sweet Chestnut also won a Silver Gilt certificate, came top of the Trees Contributing to BioDiversity category and won a cup. Our Witch Hazel tree gained a Silver as a Small Ornamental Tree, our back garden a Silver for being Environmentally Friendly, while in the Places of Learning category a Bronze was awarded. The trophies are now on display in the entrance at No 39.
We attach a panoramic photo of the back garden showing the Witch Hazel and the Sweet Chestnut trees; and another of the Ginkgo tree.
Photos courtesy of Tony and Sally Grant
Great Big Dorset Hedge
Many of you will have attended the talk about the Great Big Dorset Hadge Project given by Julie Leah on Tuesday 3rd October.
More information about the project and how to volunteer for it was given in Julie’ last slides which you can view here
