Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) are in bloom before the end of March. Seen yesterday in a hedgerow in Standish, and today in a wood at Highnam. I always used to think…

The Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) is in full bloom. It is coating the Gloucestershire hedgerows like snow. The idea of Blackthorn Winter also incorporates the notion that, despite warm presages of…

As reported in a previous issue of GNS NEWS, a number of Curlews were caught amd marked with a series of colour rings on the Severn Estuary below Lydney in…

Saw my first Red Admiral of the season here at St Briavels this morning.

Water levels continuing to drop slowly in the meadows; not a lot of indication of summer visitors yet, apart from singing Chiffchaff and Blackcap – no sign of Sand Martins…

Dull misty day; still some winter visitors about (ducks, Fieldfares and Redwing)s and some signs of spring (displaying waders, first Chiffchaff song in the Severn Hams area, Skylarks and Reed Buntings settling…

The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) is a national survey organised by the British Trust for Ornithology.  Volunteer observers count water birds once a month at wetlands over the British Isles…

A full moon in mid March means big high tides on the Severn, and this morning’s tide (predicted as 9.6 m at Sharpness at 0832) was very much in the…

For the last couple of weeks, signs of spring have begun to show at the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust’s reserve at Coombe Hill in the Severn Vale between Gloucester and Tewkesbury. …

Saw my first beefly of the year today in Standish.

On 24th February, and as the weather forecast was favourable, we decided to visit the Forest of Dean to see if any adders were out basking in the sunshine. Even…