To lighten your winter evenings, GRMG is pleased to offer two talks by well-known species specialists:- Little Owls, with Emily Joachim Thursday December 10th 2015 – 7.30 start.  Pub food available from 6.30.  £5. The Cheese Rollers Inn, Shurdington, near Cheltenham, GL51 4XJ. Emily will talk about this fascinating and photogenic…

Following the 2014 national Peregrine survey led by the BTO, GRMG organised a county wide survey to follow up for 2015 and the findings of this can now be found on our documents page. The GRMG will conduct the survey again next year and if you would like to be involved in any…

The Gloucestershire Naturalists Society have got Chris Sperring MBE speaking on ‘British Owls, their Natural History and Practical Conservation’ on Friday 13th November at 7.30. This will be at Watermoor Church Hall Cirencester (GL7 1NE for satnavs) and will cost a couple of pounds for non-members. Chris Sperring is an…

Since GRMG first began, we have been asking people in the county to submit their raptor sightings throughout the county via our online submission form. This has proven really successful, with nearly 4000 records in the database in less than a year. A big thank you to everyone who continues to…

Just when did the Little Owl first arrive in Gloucestershire? Many thanks to Andrew Bluett and the Gloucestershire Naturalists’ Society and Andrew Bluett for the use of this article.

Andrew Bluett has been analysing records for Little Owl in the county. Little Owls are still considered to be alien introductions rather than native, consequently they have no conservation status which makes it very diffcult to attract funding for research in spite of the fact that marked declines have been noted….

A final word from Rob on the Hobby season… As broods near to fledging for most nests at least, we are approaching the best time of year to find breeding pairs of Hobbies, for a few weeks after fledging as the young Hobbies learn the skills of catching slower insects…

The GRMG book shop has opened its doors. In fact, what we’ve really done is create an affiliation with Amazon whereby they pay us a small percentage in commission for sales that we generate. The books are sold by, and shipped by, Amazon. The prices remain the same as the usual…

We are now ringing the young Hobbies from nests found earlier in the year. Two broods have been ringed so far, with another three to do, plus the possibility of further nests still to be found. Now is a good time again to look for signs of breeding Hobbies, such…

Rob Husbands has provided this update on what he’s up to now as the ringing season is progressing… With the majority of our local day time raptors well on the way to fledging young, my attention turns to our only summering falcon – The Hobby. As I am sure most…