Sights of Summer
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 […]
Dawn Chorus 2020
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 […]
Tawny Owls
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 […]
2020 AGM Report
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
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.
AGM 2020
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. […]
Responsible dog walking
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 […]
WWT Green Connections spring activities
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 […]
Winter Task Day 23rd February
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 […]
Woodland Management 2019/2020 – deferred
Some of you will have noticed that the forestry work announced in a post of last year has not taken place. In view of the very wet autumn of 2019, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust decided to […]