Recent news
Cinderford Northern Quarter
The preparatory works for the Cinderford Northern Quarter development continue in spite of the protests and it would appear in defiance of the legal protection of some species which inhabit…
Daffodils!
The wild daffodil season is several weeks late, but getting going now. Good places to see them include the Wildlife Trust reserve Gwen and Vera’s Fields SO696276, pictured here, and…
Bluethroat sighting
A male Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica) was trapped at a private site in the county earlier in the week. The bird showed features of the subspecies “cyanecula”. Perusing of my, albeit…
Morning and evening at Coombe Hill
Not surpisingly, if you go to the Coombe Hill GWT reserve at different times of day, you see different things. Water levels have dropped a little since the weekend; the…
Wild Boar in the Forest of Dean
Following my article in GNS News, December 2012, it is noticeable that Wild Boar damage to the greensward, roadside verges and other open grasslands in the Forest of Dean is more severe than…
Polecat Confirmation
Regarding the probable Polecat – see photos etc below, posted by Andy Jayne on February 24th, the same animal was seen by Andrew Bluett and again photographed. A report with…
Severn Hams today
Flooding on the meadows is still extensive, and has hardly decreased at all in the last few days. Cold easterly weather (still snow remaining on the Cotswolds and Malverns), little…
2012 – disaster year for butterflies
At the Annual General Meeting of the Gloucestershire Naturalists’ Society, a team from Butterfly Conservation reported on monitoring of Lepidoptera at the newly-purchased reserve at Rough Bank (see separate report…
Severn Hams on Tuesday 26 March
The level of the Severn has dropped a little over the last couple of days, but it is still relatively high, so that it is difficult for tributaries to discharge…
March GNS News out
The March 2013 issue of GNS News is now available, with articles including a consideration of the ecological consequences of the proposed Cinderford Northern Quarter development, the Red-Data fungus Stephanospora…
GNS Annual General Meeting; and latest on Rough Bank
The 2013 GNS Annual General Meeting was hosted by the GNS Cirencester branch on Friday 22 March, with the Society’s President, Anna Jones, in the chair, and about 30 members present. The…
Field Meeting at Coombe Hill Canal, 24 March 2013
Poisonously cold for Palm Sunday with a biting northeast wind, a speckle of snow flakes in the air and snow on the Cotswolds. And we had been hoping for summer…