Recent sightings
Sightings – January 2008
St Briavels (25 January, contributed by Roger Gaunt) Frog spawn seen today in a spring fed garden pond. Macaroni Downs and Eastleach (24/25 January, contributed by Ian Ralphs) A small…
Sightings – December 2007
Severn Hams (31 December, contributed by Mike Smart) Severn and Chelt are rising again, but the meadows are not back-flooding yet. Walmore at 12h30, water levels low, just a little…
Sightings – November 2007
Hempsted (29 November, contributed by Gordon Avery) A pair of Stonechats again on Fieldings Playing Field, Sudmeadow Road. Sharpness area (26 November, contributed by Gordon Avery) Sharpness shoreline to Berkeley…
Sightings – October 2007
Severn Hams (30 October, contributed by Les Brown, Mike Smart and David Anderson) Paradoxically after the flooding of the summer, water levels at Ashleworth and Coombe Hill are low for…
Sightings – September 2007
The Mythe, Tewkesbury (30 September, contributed by Robert Homan) Further evidence of the effects of the floods on the timing of the flowering of plants – the lower branches of…
Sightings – August 2007
Severn Hams (30 August, contributed by Mike Smart and Juliet Bailey) We walked from the Wharfe end of the Coombe Hill canal to the Wainlodes end, taking in the surrounding…
Sightings – July 2007
Sudmeadow (23 July, contributed by Gordon Avery) A Kingfisher landed for a few seconds on the washing line in my floooded back garden. Severn Hams (20 July, contributed by Mike…
Sightings – June 2007
Severn Hams (27 June, contributed by Mike Smart) The Grundon Hide at Coombe Hill was only accessible with waders (or wet legs) the evening of 25 June, and the scrapes…
Sightings – May 2007
Walmore Common (31 May, contributed by Andy Jayne) A huge count of 254 Ravens flying into roost at Walmore Common in the evening, all arriving from an east or north-east…
Sightings – April 2007
St Mark’s Fly (25 April, contributed by Juliet Bailey) St Mark’s Fly, so called because it usually appears around St Mark’s Day (25 April), is in our garden in Standish…
Sightings – March 2007
Severn Hams (31 March, contributed by Mike Smart and Les Brown) For birdwatchers, as for weather forecasters, life is governed by ridges and troughs. Today was distinctly a day of…
Sightings – February 2007
Severn Hams (27 February, contributed by Mike Smart, Les Brown and David Anderson) The River Severn level continues to drop, but very slowly, so that water cannot flow off the…