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Recent posts
- Day 22 – How many flowers in an acre
- Day 21 – view a landscape
- Day 20 – Trail cameras
- Day 19 – Science experiment
- On the river – Day 18 of 30 Days Wild
- Day 17 – The Great Get Together
- Day 16 – Early evening walk and badgers
- Scarlet Tiger moths – Day 15
- Day 14 – Butterflies
- Forest school, Day 13 of 30 Days Wild
- Walk in the woods – Day 12
- Follow a trail – Day 11
- Day 10 of 30 Days Wild – Grass verges and Orchids
- Day 9 of 30 Days Wild – Litter picking
- Plant a tree – Day 8 of 30 Days Wild
- Look under a stone or log – Day 7
- Day 6 – Listening to thunder
- Slow Motion – Day 5 of 30 Days Wild
- 30 Days Wild – Day 4 – Watching A Spider Catch Its Prey
- 30 Days Wild – Day 3 – Wild Fair
- 30 Days Wild – Day 2
- 30 Days Wild – Day one
- Badger watching at Wytham Woods.
- If you go down to the woods today
- Fox cubs
- Foxes
- Neighbourhood mammals
- Easter Holidays
- Badger identification
- Water Vole Day
- Spring mammals
- Little owl
- A badger and a fox
- State of Nature in Oxfordshire 2017
- Spring Equinox
- My local patch Mid March
- BBOWT – Dry Sandford Pit
- Owls and Arrow the Badger
- First Days Of March
- A Barn owl and Storm Doris
- Signs of Spring 2017
- Polecat, Badgers and a fox
- Brown rat
- Petition against the Badger cull
- Big Garden Bird Watch 2017
- Reconnecting with the Badgers
- Nearby rookery
- Catching up with my garden wildlife
- Review of 2016
- Starlings at Otmoor
- Garden wildlife
- Fieldfares and Redwings
- Red Kite hunting
- Male Kestrel
- Halloween and first week of November
- Guest blog – Australia
- Looking for fungi
- Sunny Autumn afternoon
- Hawthorn
- Benefits of Ivy
- Trail camera footage
- Dragonflies
- Back on my local patch
- Birdfair 2016
- Whale watching – Bay of Biscay
- Crickets and Grasshoppers
- Struggles and inspirations in the wildlife world.
- RSPB Big Wild Sleepout
- Catch up with the badger family
- A week in pictures
- The Big Butterfly Count
- Rescuing a lamb and a day on the river
- Badger weekend
- Hedgehog
- 30 mammals for Day 30 of 30 Days Wild
- Butterflies, Day 28 – 30 days Wild
- National Badger Week, Day 25, 26 and 27 – 30 days Wild
- Orchids, Day 23 – 30 Days Wild
- Early morning on the river, Day 19- 30 Days Wild
- Wild flowers, Day 17 – 30 Days Wild
- Sounds of thunder, Day 16 – 30 Days Wild
- Nose to nose with an animal, Day 14 – 30 Days Wild
- Explore the bug hotel, Day 13
- Early morning walk and science festival
- Wild swimming, Day 10 – 30 Days Wild
- Breakfast in the garden – Day 9
- Look for ladybirds, day 8 – 30 Days Wild
- Walk in the rain, Day 7 – 30 Days Wild
- Fill up the birdbath, Day 6 – 30 Days Wild
- Rabbits, Day 5 – 30 Days Wild
- Oxford Festival of Nature, Day four – 30 Days Wild
- RSPB Minsmere, Day 3 – 30 Days Wild
- Springwatch Unsprung, Day 2 – 30 Days Wild
- Bike ride, Day one – 30 Days Wild
- Very interesting badger behaviour
- Deer behaviour
- My blog is three years old today
- Fallow deer passing through
- Catch up with the badger cubs
- Wildlife around the Badger sett
- Happy update on Cookie’s sett
- Update on Cookie’s sett
- Earth worm survey
- The story of Cookie
- Small mammal surveying
- Bluebells
- Spring evening walk
- Lapwings
- Foggy evening
- End of the holidays
- Water voles
- Roe deers up close
- Spring flowers
- Weekend in Devon
- Badgers at Secret World Wildlife rescue
- Spring is here
- Badger cam
- Spring Hares
- BAWC’s Wildlife Crime conference 2016
- Chance meeting with a Barn Owl
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Category Archives: Nature reserve
State of Nature in Oxfordshire 2017
A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to be asked to do a presentation at the Launch Event of The State of Nature in Oxfordshire 2017. We decided that rather than doing a presentation on the day that … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Citizen science, Hedgehogs, nature, Nature reserve, outdoors, Oxfordshire, RSPB, Rural life, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Tagged Blenheim Palace, Blogging, Environment, nature, Oxfordshire, photography, State of Nature, Wild Oxfordshire, wildlife
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BBOWT – Dry Sandford Pit
As the landscape opens up across fenland, shallow ponds and sandy cliff faces, I’m stood where there was once a warm, shallow sea full of coral, in an area that would have had a temperature similar to the Caribbean. Dry … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Blogging, mammals, nature, Nature reserve, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged BBOWT, Blogging, Environment, grey squirrel, images, nature, photography, rabbit, Reed bunting, Scarlet Elf cup, Spring
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Starlings at Otmoor
After the last few miserable days of rain and fog it was nice to get out on a bright blue, clear day. The sun was low, casting golden rays across the reedbeds and reflecting off the water. We had driven … Continue reading
Posted in birds, nature, Nature reserve, outdoors, Oxfordshire, photography, RSPB, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, winter
Tagged birds, kestrel, Marsh harrier, Murmuration, nature, Nature reserve, RSPB Otmoor, Snipe, Starlings, Sunset, wildlife, winter
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RSPB Minsmere, Day 3 – 30 Days Wild
RSPB Minsmere is a nature reserve in Suffolk. It has a large range of habitats including, open water, heathland, grassland, woods and reed beds all hosting a huge variety of mammals, birds and insects. Minsmere is one of the fews … Continue reading
Posted in 30 Days Wild, birds, nature, Nature reserve, outdoors, RSPB, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography
Tagged 30 Days Wild, Avocet, birds, Bittern, Damselfly, mammals, Marsh harrier, nature, outdoors, rabbit, wildlife
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Springwatch Unsprung, Day 2 – 30 Days Wild
Springwatch Unsprung is not something that I thought I would be writing about for Day 2 Of 30 Days Wild, but yesterday I had the privilege of being on the program. I was on Unsprung to talk about wildlife photography. … Continue reading
Spring evening walk
Just before the sun started to set we took a walk around the nearby field and wood. There were plenty of deers in the field alongside a couple of hares. The air is becoming a lot busier, with bird song, … Continue reading
Posted in mammals, Nature reserve, outdoors, Oxfordshire, Rural life, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Wildlife photography, Woodland
Tagged Deer, Hare, mammals, nature, outdoors, Spring, wildlife, woodland, Woods
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