Butterflies on the wing

 Some butterflies from the North Oxford trap grounds courtesy Nicola Devine.

Holly Blue

Orange Tip

Speckled Wood

Hartslock Hill, BBOWT Site, Goring on Thames. 30th March 2021

 The Pasque Flower. All alone  on the meadow slopes of Hartslock Hill, Goring on Thames, Oxfordshire. It is endangered in the wild and on the 'Red List' of The International Union for Conservation of Wildlife.
Legend has it that the flower grew in places soaked by the blood of Romans.

Sydlings Copse BBOWT Reserve 31/3/21

                                                                   Gorse Shield bug

                                                                          Toothwort 
                                                        

RSPB Otmoor

Common Toads 

 

Oxford 19th March 2021

Common Frog

                                                                          

Whitchurch Hill 6th March

  Stoat

Red Fox

 

A sunny few hours at Mapleduram Monday 25th January 2021

Common Buzzard gorging on a Turkey. I presume 
must have been stolen by Fox from nearby farm 
and abandoned.

Fieldfare

 Stonechat - female

 

15th December Whitchurch Hill

                                                                           Brown Hare
 

A productive few hours at Warburg Reserve, Bix Bottom. Wednesday 9th December 2020

Lesser Redpoll having a bath.

Marsh Tit.

Song Thrush

Witch's Butter Fungi

 

Whitchurch Hill: 15th November.

                         Hazel Dormouse foraging in this mild weather, photographed by torchlight.