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.

Farmoor Underwater

Courtesy of Jack Perks

Highmoor Common Wood Fungi - 25th Oct

The Sickener

Wood Blewit (?)

Magpie Inkcap (stage 2)

Common Puffball

Amethyst Deceiver

 NB. I have only recently been introduced to this so would welcome advice on the IDs

Fungi at Warburg Reserve, Bix. Wednesday 7th October 2020

Petticoat Mottlegill

Magpie Inkcap

Possibly Common Bonnet ( Not entirely sure)

Otmoor : 28th September

Clouded Yellow

Eft (Newt)

Trap Grounds Willow Emerald 8th September

Willow Emeralds are continuing their rapid colonisation of the county with a male found in the Trap Grounds yesterday by Nicola Devine. It was still present today and conveniently located rather low down on some overhanging Willow in front of the Swan Pond main viewing area.

Willow Emerald courtesy of Gnome

Red-veined Darter Radley GPs 4th September

Red-veined Darter at Radley GPs.
Found by Wayne Bull.

Courtesy of Wayne Bull.

Warburg Reserve, Bix. 31st August 2020. Chiltern Gentian. One of the rarest wildflowers in the UK. The County Flower of Buckinghamshire.

 

Otmoor - 26th August

Brown Hairstreak (fem)

Brown Hairstreak (fem)

Migrant Hawker

Green-veined White

Magpie Moth

Willow Emerald Damselfly Video

Willow Emerald Damselfly Otmoor rspb 24th August.

Otmoor 24th August

Willow Emerald Damsel as it was in the ash tree.

Willow Emerald Damsel

Cholsey Downs

    Adonis Blue (2nd Brood)

Whitchurch Hill 16th August

      Southern Hawker 

Hummingbird Hawk-moth in the garden

 

An afternoon at Warburg Reserve, Bix. 7th August 2020

Bullfinch - male - juvenile

Broadleaf Helleborine - Woodland Orchid.

Chiffchaff - juvenile

Small Heath Butterfly

Abingdon town centre

Elephant hawk moth caterpillar 

Otmoor and Aston Rowant 31st July

Brown Hairstreak on Wild Angelica - Otmoor

Silver spotted Skipper on Horseshoe Vetch - Aston Rowant NNR

Radley

Radley Muntjac

Watlington Hill - 24th July

Chalkhill Blue

Leafield 21st July

                                                                            Leopard Moth

National Mega & County First!

This unassuming micro moth turns out to a national mega rarity and a county first! Called Zelleria oleastrella,  it came to my Actinic light trap two nights running in my Oxford garden. Whilst they can migrate, they are  more usually imported with Olive Trees as the larvae mine the leaves.

Thame Valley around Stadhampton - 11th July

Meadow Grasshopper

Meadow Grasshopper

Lesser Marsh Grasshopper

(Confirmation of IDs is welcome)

Brown Hawker