📢Crickley Hill update 📢 Due to snow and ice, Crickley Hill nature reserve and café are currently closed and will likely remain so for the next few days. Wrap up warm, stay safe and keep your eyes peeled on this post for updates❄️ NT Cotswolds

Cobalt Crust fungi (Terana Caerulea) on hazel in Througham today #fungi.

Happy New Year! Tried a soggy #NewYearPlantHunt around the #RobinswoodHill office today and found a couple of determined flowers... but the most colourful things were in fruit, not flower

Ooh I just herd the first drumming Greater spotted woodpecker of the year,gotta love that sound .

You can't beat Slimbridge on days like today, the light was perfect, slightest breeze and some quality birds. Went first thing, and then back again in the late afternoon! So nice to dust off the camera for a few hours...

Morning folks! Bit of a quiz to kick off the day - can you guess the plant species from this strange looking distribution map? It's something that is in flower right now!

. #training UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Freshwater phytoplankton identification Wallingford nr. Oxford 10-14 July 2023 From £799 ceh.ac.uk/training/fresh… #lake #river #pond #plankton #fieldskills @EssexWTrecords The Freshwater Blog FWS Journal FreshWater Watch GCER

We are recruiting!! Both roles will involve working closely within the team and supporting the biological recording network through communications, project and data work. Biological Co-ordinator careers.newjob.org.uk/OCC/job/Biolog… Biodiversity Data Assitant careers.newjob.org.uk/OCC/job/Biodiv…

Nice evening walk along the River Severn at Berkeley Shore (S of Power Station) included 64 Canada geese, 8 Greylag, 37 Mallard, 9 Common sandpipers, 10 Oystercatchers, 8 Turnstones, 11 Yellow wagtails, 6 Grey heron and this Spanish 🇪🇸 ringed Black-headed gull! #Glosbirds

Do you know anyone who enjoys #drawing, #painting or other mediums of creating artwork? Tell them about our #InsectArt #competition! Submit your entries before October 31 2023: insectweek.org/art-and-photog… Artwork by Dominique Vassie (Twitter & IG: Dominique Vassie)

Citizen science in action! Volunteers joined Kai'a and Pete to survey Riverflies on the River Frome - finding mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies. We also saw lamprey, sticklebacks, and bullheads🐟 #wilderfrome #citizenscience @Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Severn Rivers Trust CaBA Riverfly Partnership

We can't keep it under wraps any longer! We're so excited to share our beautiful new logo with you all!  It's been kindly designed and donated by @TFIUnmown  🦔 Please help spread the #hedgehog word by sharing it far and wide! #newlogo #rebrand #BHPS

Interactive #onlinetraining via UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Spatial analysis in #QGIS and R 6 -10 Nov 2023 from £449 ceh.ac.uk/training/spati… #mapping PL RP Ghislaine Dell GCER @Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Grantham Institute Imperial Grantham Centre GW4 Alliance GW4 Fresh CDT NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership @gwentwildlife HBIC

With #Halloween & bonfire night fast approaching, we're urging anyone who's building bonfires to only do so on the day they are to be lit! This simple step can help save #hedgehogs and other #wildlife from appalling suffering. 🦔 🍂 🔥 ❗ Please share to make aware ❗

Congratulations to Martin Harvey, our first Marsh Award recipient today, for his work promoting entomological recording, providing training and expertise in insect identification and contributing field records locally and nationally.

Chuffed to find a single Waxwing on mistletoe by the row of poplars near the gravel area east of the Sailing Lake at Frampton on Severn at 10:30 this morning. #Glosbirds

A great trip around FoD with Paul Masters most targets got. 7 year ticks, Crossbills abundant in the Crabtree/Serridge area. Frustrated by an unseen calling Goshawk. Bramblings, Hawfinches, Redpolls all seen. Finished with @danwatsonbirder's Waxwing as we were close. #GlosBirds

Success story, Kestrel loving the high tide mouse flush at Saul Warth. #GlosBirds

The Dippers are nest building!!! They're nesting under the same small bridge, in our village, where they've reared two broods each year for the last 3 years. Amazingly, hardly anyone in the village is aware of their existence. I am more than a little in love with them 🤎