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GNS Field Meeting – Guscar Rocks (10 May 2006, contributed by Juliet Bailey)
One of the highlights of this meeting were 4 Painted Lady butterflies, presumably newly arrived migrants, on the banks of the Severn near Guscar Rocks. Among the birds seen were:…
GNS Field Meeting – Russel’s Inclosure, Forest of Dean (6 May 2006, contributed by Juliet Bailey)
This was a very productive meeting in terms of species recorded. Birds included, Wood Warbler, Blackcap, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Goldcrest and many other woodland birds. Also Tree Pipit and Mandarin. There…
GNS Field Meeting – Ashleworth and Hasfield Hams (3 May 2006, contributed by Juliet Bailey)
This is the time of year to see the rare wild flower Mousetail (Myosurus minimus) a diminutive annual member of the buttercup family, where the centre of the flower bears…
GNS Field Meeting – Cleeve Hill (8 April 2006, contributed by Gordon Avery)
Some of the highlights of the meeting were: 2 female Wheatears, one in each of two different ploughed fields east of the horse paddocks, near the Golf Club House. On…
GNS Field Meeting – Waterhay, CWP(W) (26 March 2006, contributed by Gareth Harris)
Some of the highlights of the meeting were: Lake 68c from the new hide: Great Crested Grebes, Shelduck, Shoveler, Wigeon, Teal, Redshank, Snipe, Cetti’s Warblers, Chiffchaffs, Long-tailed tits, Bullfinch, Reed…
Coombe Hill Reserve Opening 2004: Gallery
Many GNS members will have visited the new developments at the GWT Coombe Hill reserve in the last year. The creation of areas of open water and a network of…
Bryophyte Field Meeting, Ban-y-Gor Wood November 2003 by Peter Martin and Juliet Bailey
The Moss Group – Peter Martin (county bryophyte recorder), with Juliet Bailey, Cathy Beeching, Libby Houston, Claire and Mark Kitchen, and Richard Lansdown – visited Ban-y-Gor wood (ST536967) on 1…