Woundwort Shieldbug, Bodicote

 

Sydlings Copse - 16th April

Early Purple Orchids in bud and one in bloom

 

A good year for Common Toothwort with 35 stems in this colony (below)

Oxon Downs 12th April

 

                                                                 Juniper Shieldbug   

                                                                      Pasque Flower

Sydling's Copse and Bernwood Meadows - 3rd April

 

Emergent Early Purple Orchids (above and below)

FOY Green-winged Orchids (just over county border)

Sydlings Copse 31st March

 

                                                                  Green Tiger Beetle                                                 

                                                              

                                                                         Toothwort

                                                                       

Emperor moth 

 

 

Lye Valley Oxford 10th March

Common Frogs

 

Woodstock 9th March

Brimstone

 

Warburg Reserve, Bix - Sunday 9th March 2025

 A Grass Snake seen coming to the pond at Warburg Reserve. I believe it is a male and came to the pond on three separate occasions only to drink. It did not enter the water. Due to the warm weather today I think it has just come out of hibernation. It is certainly the earliest I have ever seen one here.

 

Common Frogs