Recent sightings
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…
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…
Sightings – April 2006
Hawling (30 April, contributed by Robert Homan) 9 Wheatears by the Salt Way and 2 singing male Redstarts in the vicinity of the village. The Strand, Westbury (29 April, contributed…
A Millipede new to Gloucestershire – David Scott-Langley
On Friday 7th April I was working in a long-established garden in Lower Oddington (SP22). One of the tasks was to remove some ancient stumps of Cytisus battandieri from a…
Sightings – March 2006
Coombe Hill (31 March, contributed by Mike Smart) With the rainfall of the last few days and the high equinoctial tides, the Severn is currently higher than it has been…