Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Not sure if or when Ill have anything to post in the future, but thanks to all the local birds and others from further afield for their news and support. At sundown yesterday a Tawny Owl calling heard from Gloucester Hospital the view from there this morning Hanging up my Bins for the foreseeable 120
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 26/11/2025My first Hair Ice of this Winter seen today and prehaps the most stunning and biggest example I've ever seen From Google ""Hair ice is a rare, hair-like ice formation that grows on rotting wood from broadleaf trees when the air is moist and the temperature is below freezing"" 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 23/10/2025From the Isle of Mull, brilliant wildlife seen, but can someone identify the caterpillar for me please 132
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Juvenile Crossbill in the #ForestofDean recently 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Nice to see 2 Adders in the #ForestofDean this morning... this one photographed at distance with imaged cropped and the snake left to bask in peace #snake 000
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Purple Hairstreak flutterby Only the second I've knowingly seen and bizarrely within 20mtrs of where I saw my other ! #ForestofDean 000
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Stunning afternoon at Symonds Yat Rock watching these young Peregrines tallon grappling 020
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Humming Bird Hawk moth feeding on Red Valerian at Symonds Yat Rock today One of at least 3 different ones whizzing around 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Highlight of an unplanned trip to a Dorset Heath yesterday was 2 female Sand Lizards 000
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 14/05/2025After Forestry England #ForestofDean scraped clean my best area of Broad-leaved helleborine with no plants showing there yet this year.... it was nice to discover 7 spikes in a new to me location this morning 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Grasshopper Warbler in the #ForestofDean this morning #Glosbirds 020
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 07/05/2025I don't as a rule twitch birds... preferring to visit spots I know to see what's there and if there's an unusual bird, that's a bonus... But with 4 relatively long staying Dotteral an hour from home. I thought I ought to visit them.... Definitely not disappointed 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Nightjar churring at a traditional Forest of Dean site at 20.55 this evening Woodcock over as well #Glosbirds 040
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Dark Edged Beefly and Rose Chafer in the Wye Valley this morning.... Happy to be corrected though 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Seems a little early but my first Cinnabar Moth of the year Coleford, Gloucestershire 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Exhibitors arriving for the Coleford Carnival of Transport...... Bit grey and damp, but for now, at least it's not raining... Here's hoping it's a successful day for stall holders, exhibitors, local traders and the organisers 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 21/04/20252 m Pied Fly disputing a hole near the CTH paving area Gropper reeling between the Crem and CTH Wood Warbler briefly calling in mixed woodland (1st heard 2 days ago) on my 5 mile wander with Polly this morning #GlosBirds 140
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Heard from CTH but distantly to the north Cuckoo calling at 07.49am today #Glosbirds 040
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Not a bad morning's wander in the #ForestofDean Fallow Buck Fallow Does with last years fawns Wild Boar Male Crossbill 020
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Easily my best sighting and photo of the year so far Weasel in the #ForestofDean this morning 031
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Shush, don't move the paparazzi are out again Roe bucks in the #ForestofDean 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 01/04/2025As part of the redevelopment of the of Coleford. This is the chosen design of the new clock tower. There will be numbers incorporated into the paved areas & the shadow cast by the tower will show the time. The town needs to be closed twice a year overnight to move the numbers forwards / backwards 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Is it a bird ? Is it a plane ? No it's Super Boar! 110
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Spectacular scenes today as the Yew trees release clouds of pollen 020
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Fallow does and fawns in the last of the day's sun Roe Buck deep in the Oak wood Wild Boar warming up after a cold night. Common Buzzard All in the #ForestofDean 020
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Birding in the 80's meant seeing a Red Kites was a truly special moment & generally meant travelling mid Wales Seeing these 2 drift towards my garden as I was stood at my kitchen sink in Coleford, today. washing up had me dashing for the camera & outside for a better view #Glosbirds 141
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Remembering the Battle of Coleford this morning 000
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I left a #trailcam out in the #ForestofDean for a couple of days. I had hoped for more but pleased with these results, considering I hadn't used my camera in over 3 years Wild #Boar &Fallow #Deer 030
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Don't forget flours and a card for your loved one today 000
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Every day is an adventure walking Polly, there's no guarantee on what you might see.... But watching 2 Fallow bucks sparing while a sounder of Wild Boar rooted in the foreground. Certainly didn't rank high on the what might be seen in February in the #ForestofDean Phone footage 000
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Brambling have been thin on the ground, locally for me, this winter. It was nice to see a male (only the second on patch this winter) associating with 6 Chaffinch and 3 Reed Bunting CTH/WGL FoD #Glosbirds 040
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Nice of the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust to provide bins for the lazy b'stards who can't carry their energy drink cans home 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025@julianthomas19.bsky.social Thought this might interest you It's about the building of the seawall at Portland Cov youtu.be/Z424LNfjOyk?...youtu.beChesil Coast Protection Works 1962-1967. Unique film and images. Civil Engineering, PortlandYouTube video by Stuart Morris 001
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Long Tailed Tits at roost filmed using a Thermal Imaging camera in the #ForestofDean 030
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Two years ago using a recently acquired Thermal Camera I found some roosting Long Tailed Tits. I've checked a few times but never been able to reconnect, but tonight in the same tree they were back ! #Glosbirds 030
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I accept it's not the greatests of photos. Hawfinch and Crossbills sat together in the same tree just after dawn the other morning in the #ForestofDean 020
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Various Fallow Bucks, seen in the ##ForestofDean during the recent cold spell 030
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Fallow Buck in the frosty #ForestofDean this morning 030
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Lords Hill Orange Marmalade with Lime Lemon and Root Ginger.... 010
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 04/01/2025My first Hair Ice of 2025 Seen in several spots on this mornings frosty wander around the #ForestofDean #hairice 000
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Has Spring, sprung already.. ? Seen today in Highnam Gloucestershire Snowdrop, Lesser Celandine and Primroses in flower 020
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Surprising find on this mornings wander At least 12, probably more Hawfinch seen/heard leaving what I presume is a roost at 07.50 this morning along with many Chaffinch & plenty unseen Crossbill in the same general area central in the central FoD area (not WGL/CTH) #Glosbirds 160
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Fallow Doe and fawn in the #ForestofDean this morning 140
Frank & Polly @frank8polly.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Stunning sunrise in the #ForestofDean this morning 020