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Glos. Raptors Indoor Meeting – Thursday 8th December
Gloucestershire Raptor Monitoring Group are holding an indoor meeting on Thursday 8th December 2016 at The Gala Club, Fairmile Gardens (off Tewkesbury Road) Gloucester, GL2 9EB, 7.00 for 7.30pm. Buzzards,…
Discovering Bats Day at The John Moore Museum – Saturday 22 October
Time Four sessions to choose from: 10.30am to 11.30am 11.45am to 12.45pm 2.30pm to 3.30pm 3.45pm to 4.45pm Venue John Moore Museum, 41 Church Street, Tewkesbury, GL20 5SN Details Discovering…
Asian hornet identified in Gloucestershire
The National Bee Unit has confirmed a sighting of the Asian hornet in the Tetbury area of Gloucestershire – the first time the hornet has been discovered in the UK….
Field Meeting – Sunday 25th September
The next GNS Field Meeting is due to take place on Sunday 25th September at Cleeve Hill to be led by Ellie Phillips. BIOLOGICAL RECORDING – What it is and…
An extensive floating colony of Water Fern
During several recent journeys through Willersey, in the north of the county, I had noticed that the ornamental pond on the village green seemed to have become largely covered by…
“Lighthouse gall” on ground ivy
Some of the ground ivy Glechoma hederacea leaves in my garden are pocked with white-rimmed craters reminding me of rivet washers on jeans. On closer examination, there are hairy green…
Preliminary report on 2016 breeding Curlew survey
Curlews are a familiar breeding bird along the Severn Vale from Gloucester up to Worcester, and along the Avon from Tewkesbury to Evesham. They nest in hay meadows, and their…
Returning the Beaver – the Welsh Experience
Dear Partner Wetlands West would like to invite you to a half day presentation and discussion on beaver re-introduction at Apperley Village Hall on TUESDAY 27th SEPTEMBER 2016, starting at…
Forest of Dean Horseshoe bat survey – 13 August 2016
Natural England are leading on the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley Batscape Project (being delivered through the Foresters’ Forest HLF Landscape Partnership Programme), working in close partnership with the…
Breeding birds in the Severn and Avon Vales this year
The bird breeding season in the Severn and Avon Vales is almost over, so this seems a good time to offer an update on the results, based on observations made by…
Latest news on the breeding Curlew survey in the Severn and Avon Vales
Below are further notes on the survey of breeding Curlews in the Severn and Avon Vales in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, as of mid July. The survey is being carried out…
In Memoriam Lawrence Skipp
Lawrence Skipp, who died in a road accident in the Forest of Dean on 2 July at the age of only 38, was a general naturalist of exceptionally broad interests. …