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Red Kite Sighting
On Friday 3rd July @ 7 p.m. Red Kite was spotted circling over bungalow in Winchcombe Gloucestershire before heading off in 160 degree SSE direction. No mistaking the shape witnessed…
BIOBLITZ 700 at The Park & Poor’s Allotment: 25th – 26th July 2015
The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is holding a 30 hour recording session at its newest reserves – The Park and Poor’s Allotment, Tidenham, Forest of Dean – over the weekend on…
Damselflies hatching in kitchen sink pond
In my back garden in Warden Hill, Cheltenham I have used an old white Belfast style sink to create a water feature. This has been in-situ for around 5 years,…
Victoria Park Bioblitz and Wildlife Day, Windmill Hill, Bristol. July 3 and 4.
Dear Glos Nats I am organising a bioblitz and wondered if any of your members may be interested in coming along? Some of my friends at Bristol Naturalists Society and…
Woodpecker raiding Blue tit nestbox
This is a still from the recording of our nestbox camera this morning. We saw a woodpecker flying to it and poking his head in. When we played back the…
Nuthatches in nestbox
We have over a dozen nest boxes in our 1.5 acre garden at Woolaston. For the fourth year, Stock Doves are nesting in a kestrel-design box fixed to a shed…
Nightjar Field Meetings planned for 2015
Following the success of last year’s Nightjar evenings I plan to do more this year, proposed dates are Thursday 18th June, Wednesday 24th June and Thursday 9th July. If anyone is…
Red Kite and a Rat…
Most of us are aware that Red Kite are being seen more often across the county as each year passes so that a sighting is now perhaps a little less…
Tube web spider
Stunning and large tube web spider. Found in sand pit, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. 10th April 2015.
Next Meetings – 10th and 14th April 2015
The next GNS Indoor meeting will be at Watermoor Church Hall, Watermoor Road, Cirencester on Friday 10th April at 7.30pm – Ed Drewitt will be speaking about “Urban Peregrines” which…
Bryophtes checklist – new book
A new book has been published, “An Annotated Checklist of the Bryophytes of Cleeve Common”.
Will DEFRA pull the plug on Cleeve Common?
In a world where everything has to be the biggest, fastest, newest and best, any description of Cleeve Common can sound like another dose of all too familiar hype. However,…