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GNS Field Meeting at Brim’s Pill, Awre
GNS Field Meeting at Brim’s Pill, Awre (12 December 2010, contributed by Juliet Bailey with pictures by Sheila Lisster) This GNS walk was at the Gloucestershire Wildfowlers Association reserve at…
Sightings – November 2010
Guscar Rocks and Westbury-on-Severn (28 November 2010, contributed by Andy Jayne) Guscar Rocks to Pillhouse Rocks – sightings included three Ringed Plover, 31 Golden Plover, a Grey Plover, c.150 Dunlin,…
Sightings – October 2010
Aylburton Warth (31 October 2010, contributed by Andy Jayne) At Aylburton Warth today 25 Teal, a Curlew Sandpiper, three Ruff, four Snipe, a Turnstone, three Rock Pipits and a Wheatear…
Sightings – September 2010
Coombe Hill area (28 September 2010, contributed by Mike Smart and Les Brown) Coombe Hill was quiet today with the water level low (no water in scrapes, but still some…
Sightings – August 2010
Selsey Common (30 August 2010, contributed by Peter Fitchett) Among the late summer species seen today were: Autumn Lady’s Tresses, three Adonis Blues as well as some Common Blues and…
Sightings – July 2010
Sudmeadow (30 July 2010, contributed by Gordon Avery) A Hobby over Sudmeadow today at 7.12am. Purton (30 July 2010, contributed by Andy Jayne) At Purton this evening: three adult Mediterranean…
Sightings – June 2010
Coombe Hill and Ashleworth (29 June 2010, contributed by Mike Smart and Les Brown) At Coombe Hill, the water level is dropping fast despite last night’s rain. The scrapes in…
Sightings – May 2010
Forest of Dean (31 May 2010, contributed by Mike King) This pair of Dor Beetles (Geotrupes sp.) was seen today at at Burnt Oak near New Fancy View. Minsterworth…
Sightings – April 2010
Swillbrook Lakes (28 April 2010, contributed by Ken Cservenka) In the evening: 1 Swift, several singing Cetti’s Warblers, 3 singing Nightingales, a Cuckoo heard. Also Garden Warbler, Blackcap, Sedge and…
Cotswold Water Park Field Meeting (10 April 2010, contributed by David Scott-Langley)
Fourteen members met in the Cotswold Gateway Centre car park on a beautifully sunny morning. The walk was short in length (only about 650 metres on the outward leg) along…
Sightings – March 2010
Witcombe Reservoirs (31 March 2010, contributed by Gordon Avery) Seen around the reservoirs this morning were c.40 Swallows, 20 Sand Martins and 3 House Martins, all presumably knocked down by…
Cinderford Field Meeting (28 March 2010, contributed by Colin and Ingrid Twissell)
The forecast for this morning meeting was for heavy rain, but the thirteen people who were present enjoyed sunny spring weather. The meeting was primarily for amphibians. Pond-dipping was engaged…