Recent news
Bird Activity intensifies…
As will be seen from Mike Smart’s account of the Black Tailed Godwits heading north through Coombe Hill, it is evident that bird activity is increasing now that the chill…
Cinderford Northern Quarter & Dean Forest Voice Meeting, 8th April 2013
Andrew Bluett attended a meeting of Dean Forest Voice group at Berry Hill Rugby Club on Monday 8th April 2013 on behalf of GNS. The meeting, chaired by Keith Morgan…
Black-tailed Godwits at Coombe Hill this month
Black-tailed Godwit is a regular spring passage migrant at Coombe Hill, but the numbers this year are a good deal higher than usual. Comparable records in recent years are 25 from 6…
Coombe Hill this morning
Water levels not declining following recent rain (north scrape 0.68, south scrape 0.72); no outflow from the Parish Drain to the Chelt. At Coombe Hill this morning, clear indications of…
Long Standing GNS member and Dragonfly Recorder Honoured
At the recent British Dragonfly Society Recorders’ Conference and BRC Workshop at Wallingford in Oxfordshire, the meeting was opened with a special award. A signed Ruddy Darter print by artist…
STOP PRESS – change of speaker
The speaker at the final indoor meeting of the GNS Cirencester Branch indoor season 2012/13 will not after all be Dr Tim Sellars, who is indisposed, but the GNS Membership secretary…
Camouflage and Mimicry – a talk by Dr Timothy Sellars
Members will know that the GNS Cirencester Branch holds a regular programme of indoor meetings throughout the winter season. All members of GNS (whether or not they are from the…
More from the Severn Hams
A dismal, cold Novemberish day, with a biting easterly wind early on. Water depth at Coombe Hill continuing to decrease; much of the grassland looking grey and desolate because the…
Sunday evening at Coombe Hill
Another look at Coombe Hill, this time in the evening, staying until it was practically dark at 8.30 p.m. – mainly with the object of seeing how many Curlews came…
Horsbere Brook Flood Containment Area
Gloucestershire’s birding sites are generally well known, and with the information network with Mike King’s Gloster Birder web-site at the heart of it, not much gets missed. Consequently, there isn’t much…
Tawny Owl
Despite living by woodland edge and hearing Tawny Owls day and night all year long, it is very hard to see them. Usually I get only a glimpse as one…
Coombe Hill and Ashleworth today
A sharp frost this morning left ice on the edges of the waters; despite the bright sunlight, the wind remained cold, and there were still no singing Chiffchaffs or other…