COVID-19 lockdown has supposed to have been good for wildlife because we’ve been keeping out of its way. That’s only really been true for urban wildlife, for more people have been visiting (and discovering) the […]
In case you haven’t made it to the wood recently, here are a few pictures of summer I took last week. The pretty Herb-robert, a type of cranesbill Red campion Hedge woundwort, historically used for […]
Last Sunday I took my lock-down exercise in the wood at 5am so I could record some of the dawn chorus. The first recording I made included owls and is in the previous post. The […]
Over the last year the camera has increasingly caught glimpses of an owl at the pond, and the carefully repositioned camera has captured it on its favourite perch. It turns out to be the place […]
The 2020 Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Oakley Wood was held on Wednesday 11th March in Barford Memorial Hall. Chairman Liz Sheehan welcomed everyone and gave a summary of the year’s activities, and […]
The pond in the south-west corner of Oakley Wood is a valuable resource for wildlife, and so we should take care to leave it undisturbed.
This is to confirm the the AGM on Wednesday 11th is going ahead as announced. There is no sign of any coronavirus infection in this area as yet so to cancel would seem an over-reaction. […]
We’ve received a complaint of a dog entering one of the properties neighbouring the wood and attacking livestock. Part of the attraction of Oakley Wood is that it’s a safe place for dogs to run […]
This winter’s tasks in the wood have now finished, but don’t get withdrawal symptoms! Kat Reay of the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust is organising activities for the spring and summer under their Green Connections project, both […]
George Green has sent me a note about the last winter management session at Oakley Wood on Sunday 23rd. George says that “we’ll be chopping, slashing and cutting things down”, so come along and work […]