Taming the corner meadow
A smaller group today with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, perhaps because of the baking temperatures expected in the middle of the day. So...
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Harvesting arable margins
It was predicted to be well over mid 30s today, so an earlier start with Glorious Grasslands and aim to finish by...
Solar Eclipse
I saw the total eclipse in 1999 down at Lake Balaton in Hungary. Today was the closest we had in the UK...
Wilder Frome
This morning was the quarterly meeting of the Discover Dursley group. A smaller meeting due to a lot of people on summer...
Scything a corky fruited meadow
Quite a large turnout today with the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust to scythe one of my favourite meadows. The quarter acre field at...
Seeds at Sapperton
Another fairly local harvest with Glorious Grasslands, at a farm near Sapperton. When I got there, I realised I d done it previously...
Bashing Brewery Balsam
Headed over towards Stroud Brewery with Stroud Valleys Project to deal with the Himalayan Balsam on a new stretch of canal. We...
More beetles than fly
Met up with Graham in the morning for our regular riverfly check on the Frome near the Ocean. The first thing we...
Low flow river counts
Met up with Tony this morning at Ebley for our regular monthly riverfly survey. We decided to use the alternate site rather...
Guarding fruit trees
A smaller work party today with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust as a lot of people are away during the summer. But very nice...