On Saturday 21st April a meeting was held at New Fancy for the Wildlife Watch group to see if we could see any adders or other reptiles. A lovely male…

The much-needed April showers continue, and make things more interesting at Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust’s Coombe Hill Meadows reserve.  Slight rises in water levels on the pools, but ground nesting birds…

Recently we have had several sightings of Muntjac Deer at Caudle Green. They used to stay lower down in the valley but now they come up to the top. They…

On The Leigh and Cobney Meadows: ditches mainly dry despite recent rain, and no standing water on the fields; a nice show of Lady’s Smock in many of the meadows:…

First ringing session of the season at Ashleworth Ham this morning, in surprisingly frosty and misty conditions, the sun not breaking through the mist over river and meadows until after ten. …

The section of the canal between the Wharf and the Grundon Hide produced a good selection of invertebrates this morning, including several Orange-tip butterflies. Smaller species included leaf mines of…

Despite the fine weather in March, summer migrant birds seem to have been late in arriving in the Severn Vale: plenty of singing Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps since mid-March, but these were…

A Woodpigeon has been very obviously building in a nest in a dense 10ft cypress tree visible from the front window. Today, at lunchtime, a Magpie shot in half way…

The BTO project to colour-ring Curlews on the Severn Estuary below Lydney (66 ringed in September 2010, another 29 ringed in September 2011) has generated considerable interest (see previous posting…

Horsbere Brook Flood Storage Area is a recently created site, aimed at relieving flooding in Longlevens by th3 Horsebere Brook: worth a quick look (while your wife is in Sainsburys?); by…

Ashleworth Ham this morning, bright and sunny with a fair grass frost.  Water levels much lower than usual at this time of year, partly because of the drought, partly because…