Bee-flys

Dark-edged Bee-fly & Dotted Bee-fly courtesy Nicola Devine (Trap grounds North Oxford)

BBOWT Hartslock, Goring on Thames 3rd April 2022

The Pasque wild flower in the meadow on the hillside at Hartslock. Now a very rare plant in the UK restricted to just a few limestone grasslands. Only just half a dozen here this year. Flowers at Easter.

Lye Valley 11th March

 

Menage a Trois

Grass snakes at Otmoor 14th March

One of the 25 grass snakes counted on Otmoor today.

More Common Frogs! Letcombe Valley BBOWT reserve 12 March

 Many present on the small pond near the reserve's northern entrance SU377860:

Common Frog © Stephen Burch.  Click here for a larger image

Common Frog © Stephen Burch.  Click here for a larger image

Lye Valley 26th February

 Common Frogs spawning at Lye Valley NR

Lye Valley Headington

 Frogs very active.

(c) Bark

Oxon Downs, 30th Jan

                                     Brown Hares getting frisky on the Oxon Downs

Wood mouse

Looks like this wood mouse has taken a liking to the xmas wreath material which we had left in the garage

The Wrinkled Peaches of Standlake Common - 13th Nov

This site with it's abundance of diseased Elm appears to be a hotspot for a nationally scarce and highly attractive mushroom. Seven specimens were located this afternoon (per PL / EU).

Wrinkled Peach (Rhodotus palmatus)

Velvet Shank

Trooping Crumblecap

Glistening Inkcap