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Stroud Wildlife Survey Group

The Stroud Wildlife Survey Group is a group of volunteers who undertake wildlife surveys of all kinds throughout the area.

Mown grass around longer grass in agrassland with fruit trees dotted around

Baseline survey of the common

Fri 6th Jun '25Sat 14th Jun '25

A pretty busy day started with a meeting with Leah about the launch of the new Discover Dursley website. We are pretty...

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A dense woodland with the floor covered in white wild garlic as far as can be seen

Nature walk in Box Wood

Tue 29th Apr '25Tue 29th Apr '25

The 2025 programme for the Stroud Wildlife Survey Group is now published and we kicked the season off today with an evening...

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Two goats munching on a huge stack of field bindweed

Monitoring docks and goats

Tue 16th Jul '24Wed 17th Jul '24

A busy day ahead as I didn’t manage to do river monitoring yesterday. First of all, went out to the river Cam...

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A sloping meadow in a valley with fields and hedgerow visibile on the other side

Surveying in Slad

Sun 14th Jul '24

The Stroud Wildlife Survey Group hosted a botanical survey of a community nature reserve in Slad that is leased from the nearby...

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Close up of white umbel is a meadow with dozens of other similar in the blurred background

A corky fruited day

Sat 29th Jun '24

Went down to Fromebridge Mill to meet up with the Stroud Wildlife Survey Group. Our task today was a quadrat survey of...

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A floodplain meadow

Surveying the washlands

Sun 16th Jun '24

I headed over to the Fromebridge Washlands meadow with the Stroud Wildlife Survey Group to help with a botanical survey of the...

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Dawn sunrise with orange sky rising above woodland. Gate and wall in foreground

Dawn Chorus

Sun 5th May '24Mon 6th May '24

Up early this morning to join the Stroud Wildlife Survey Group for a 6am Dawn Chorus at Ebworth. This was led by...

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A large gazebo erected next to a permanent outdoor dining room

Erecting the gazebo

Tue 9th Apr '24Wed 10th Apr '24

It was a windy day at Wild Acres today, but also the last chance to get the gazebo shelter in place before...

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A wood store with stacked, sawn logs and a messy pile of wood behind

Stacking firewood

Tue 12th Mar '24Tue 26th Mar '24

After the abandoned wassail a few weeks ago at Wild Acres, the fire pit was a messy collection of cut and charred...

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Dursley Welcomes Walkers

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Gloucestershire Vale Conservation Volunteers

Annual Reflections

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