Every 6 months I have a walk round the site with Martyn Lane, the BBOWT Oxfordshire Reserve Manager and my main contact within the Trust.…
I can’t pretend that it was a glorious sunny day – it drizzled heavily all morning, once we had actually got over to field 5.…
We had a great evening of mothing last night, with plenty of species coming in to the many lights – both actinic and mercury vapour.…
We had a really excellent day for the August workparty and so we spent the time just strolling over the site, looking for Dodder and…
The weather in July has been really awful for insect-watching but I decided to visit the site on a mild, breezy and fairly sunny afternoon.…
This month the ground was wet under foot from overnight rain but the showers relented in the main and it was a warm sunny day…
In the morning I ran a workparty at Hartslock nature reserve where I decided to just do a bit of tidying up. While strolling round I…
Went up to the site today and found plenty of orchids in flower – the best of which were 6 Bee orchids (Ophrys apifera) in…
Spent the day up on the reserve showing visitors around and the day was marked by clouds of migrating Painted Lady butterflies (see right). Every…
Just a quick update on today’s conditions. It’s very wet under foot and muddy in places – especially in the lane. Very breezy with heavy…