Recent sightings
Red Kite Sighting
On Friday 3rd July @ 7 p.m. Red Kite was spotted circling over bungalow in Winchcombe Gloucestershire before heading off in 160 degree SSE direction. No mistaking the shape witnessed…
Damselflies hatching in kitchen sink pond
In my back garden in Warden Hill, Cheltenham I have used an old white Belfast style sink to create a water feature. This has been in-situ for around 5 years,…
Woodpecker raiding Blue tit nestbox
This is a still from the recording of our nestbox camera this morning. We saw a woodpecker flying to it and poking his head in. When we played back the…
Nuthatches in nestbox
We have over a dozen nest boxes in our 1.5 acre garden at Woolaston. For the fourth year, Stock Doves are nesting in a kestrel-design box fixed to a shed…
Red Kite and a Rat…
Most of us are aware that Red Kite are being seen more often across the county as each year passes so that a sighting is now perhaps a little less…
Tube web spider
Stunning and large tube web spider. Found in sand pit, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. 10th April 2015.
Eclipse
A beautiful partial solar eclipse this morning. The sky was clear in Standish, and we were able to view it using both the telescope projection, and the pin-hole method using…
Hibernating Slow worm
On 18th January 2015 I was carrying out some pruning in my Woolaston garden when I saw a torpid slow worm on the ground, out in the open among the…
Otter at Coombe Hill Meadows
An Otter (Lutra lutra) was seen from the Grundon Hide on Saturday 28 Feb 2015 from 08:15. The animal spent about half an hour hunting along the edge of the…
Spring in sight in the Severn Vale
At Severn Vale sites there was a distinct decrease in ducks and geese today, and a slight increase in waders, the majority of which appeared to be excited passage birds,…
Red Kite and Buzzards at Hampen
Whilst a passenger in a car driving on the A436 from Andoversford towards Naunton on Saturday (about 13:30hrs) I spotted what appeared to be a group of buzzards – 1…
Moth Larvae
This White Ermine larvae was spotted at Puzzlewood, in the Forest of Dean on the 18th August, 2014. This Elephant Hawk Moth larvae was spotted in my back garden in…