Wildlife reports
Bats galore
Cycling along the lanes near Oakley Wood last evening I was surrounded by bats feeding along the hedgerows
Bluebells at dawn
Chris Day has been up with the lark to get some stunning photos of this year’s bluebell display in the dawn light.
BioBlitz results
The results of the first BioBlitz in Oakley Wood are in! The event, on 12 April 2014, was a great success and thanks to all the enthusiastic surveyors who came along and helped out on […]
Don’t miss the bluebells!
It’s time to get down to the woods if you want to see this year’s display of bluebells
Springtime!!
More signs of spring
It’s looking ever more spring like in Oakley Wood. The wood anemones were more widespread today and there was plenty of wood sorrel flowering on the little path at map square C8 (NGR: SP308591). There was […]
Wood anemones
Tawny Owl again, Mistle Thrushes and the first Chiffchaff
Yesterday I heard a tawny owl again hooting in the afternoon, in roughly the same place as previously. There was a brief distant answering hoot. I’d just bumped into Chris Hastie (FOOW member) who was […]
Butterflies in Oakley Wood
In view of the Big Butterfly Count going on at the moment, I thought I’d pick a spot in Oakley Wood and have a go, particularly since yesterday I identified what seemed to be a […]