For anyone interested in the predation of Grey Squirrel (and other stuff) by our Gloucestershire Goshawk… thanks Emma B Gareth Jones Ed Drewitt Harriet Robins for all your monitoring & data collection👍

A favourite part of #SAVCurlews is fitting our breeding Curlew with GPS tags. These allow us incredibly personal insights into their daily lives, playing out onto our computer screens 👀 We get to see where their nests are, where they roost & where they winter #WorldCurlewDay

Our organic wildflower meadows, wild bird covers and diverse herbal leys are home to lots of interesting species. A nightime bird survey recently revealed 15 visiting woodcock feeding in just one field. It must be full of bugs and worms in the soil to attract that many.

First recovery for our Cotswolds Hobby colour-ringing project 😁 A chick ringed on a farm near Cirencester last July was photographed yesterday by Andrew Fox at RSPB Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, hunting dragonflies Alan Reynolds
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We know that roads (esp major roads) pose a serious threat to Barn Owls but this is the first time we have recorded an entire brood killed on roads, 3 chicks ringed at a Cork nest in July 2020, all subsequently found dead on roads, the most recent on the M8 motorway this month

Not a lovely photo but this is the diet of a Goshawk. Photo taken by ⁦Harriet Robins⁩ retrieving one of our nest cameras as part of ⁦Gloucestershire Raptor Monitoring Group⁩ Goshawk colour ringing project (camera placed there during ringing of nest under licence)

A beautiful evening spent exploring an old limestone quarry in the Cotswolds: viper’s bugloss, common centaury, pyramidal orchids & for basil thyme #deadnettlefamily #wildflowerhour wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Live nest camera of a pair of Hobbies in rural Dorset. Enjoy and please share. camstreamer.com/redirect/xUgLQ…

Today is #NationalMeadowsDay ! The loss of our uplifting hay meadow habitats in the UK makes my heart hurt, so I want to share with you the secret for turning your lawn into a mini wildflower meadow for *free* 👊

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A field full of common broomrape Orobanche minor in the Cotswolds for #wildflowerhour #parasiticplants wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

An unexpected patch of Herb Paris in the Cotswolds today for #wildflowerhour wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Lapwing chicks really are little stunners. I was helping Anna Field in Oxfordshire this evening.

Woodland flowers from the Cotswolds for #wildflowerhour this week: Herb Paris, Woodruff, Goldilocks Buttercup, Wood Sorrell, Bluebell, Wood Anemone, Sanicle, Greater Stitchwort, Garlic Mustard, Lesser Celendine, Wild Garlic & Moschatel wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland G.N.S

My goodness what an amazing array of beautiful woodland flowers! Thank you all so much for taking part despite the chilly temperatures! Have a lovely week everyone & see you again next Sunday!

Lesser celandines, wood anemones, primroses and a few early bluebells as far as the eye could see in a lovely open woodland glade in the Cotswolds yesterday #woodlandplants #wildflowerhour wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Super photo taken in the Cotswolds yesterday of one of our colour-ringed Goshawk (thanks Rich Tyler). She was ringed last year as a chick a mere 3 miles away but it’s brilliant to know that she has survived the perilous first year #glosbirds Gloucestershire Raptor Monitoring Group Gareth Jones