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Sightings – January 2007
Standish (31 January, contributed by Juliet Bailey) I heard the first blackbird song of the year today at dusk at the end of a fine warm day. He was perched…
Sightings – December 2006
Wildlife Bingo (30 December, contributed by Juliet Bailey) I have been the guinea pig naturalist this week on BBC Radio Gloucestershire’s Breakfast show. At the start of the week a…
Sightings – November 2006
Walmore Common (30 November, contributed by Mike Smart) Still extensive floods on the common. At 10.45am, there were three adult Bewick’s on the floodwater, 15 Mute Swans, 250 Wigeon, 100…
Sightings – October 2006
Glos (late October, contributed by Roger Gaunt and Robert Homan) There has been a marked increase in the number of records of the tortrix moth, Crocidosema plebejana with 3 at…
Sightings – September 2006
Sudmeadow (27 September, contributed by Gordon Avery) A Barn Owl seen in the osier bed on an early morning visit. Standish (25 September, contributed by Juliet Bailey) A Clouded Yellow…
Sightings – August 2006
Snowshill (30 August, contributed by David Anderson) Two Hobbies (flying South), one Little Owl, one Buzzard and one Kestrel (male) sighted from Snowshill Manor garden. One House Martin nest on…
Sightings – July 2006
Coombe Hill (25 and 28 July, contributed by Robert Homan) Indications of the effects of the heavy rain in the early part of the summer are the broods of 8…
GNS Field Meeting to the Cotswold Water Park (9 July 2006, contributed by David Anderson)
A group met at Keynes Country Park for a walk around a number of gravel pits at various stages of development. Working, recently worked out, almost restored and flooded pits…
Sightings – June 2006
Moth News (Late June, contributed by Robert Homan) The warm weather and southerly winds at the end of June produced many interesting moth records, including migrants such as this Bordered…
Sightings – May 2006
Severn Hams (27 May, contributed by Mike Smart and Mervyn Greening) A visit to Ashleworth Ham for ringing this morning confirmed just how seriously the recent rainfall and flooding has…
GNS Field Meeting – Guscar Rocks (10 May 2006, contributed by Juliet Bailey)
One of the highlights of this meeting were 4 Painted Lady butterflies, presumably newly arrived migrants, on the banks of the Severn near Guscar Rocks. Among the birds seen were:…
GNS Field Meeting – Russel’s Inclosure, Forest of Dean (6 May 2006, contributed by Juliet Bailey)
This was a very productive meeting in terms of species recorded. Birds included, Wood Warbler, Blackcap, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Goldcrest and many other woodland birds. Also Tree Pipit and Mandarin. There…