Elaine S. writes:
The swifts in my road in North Oxford seem to have gone.
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Oxford Swifts
Author: WOFC
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Aston Rowant NNR
Visit to Aston Rowant NNR, Sunday 3 July 2022
When Dr Tim King, our leader, started his reseach at Aston Rowant national nature reserve, he found the continuous loud singing of many skylarks for hour after hour a little trying. A few years later, the reserve was divided in two by the dramatic cutting for the new M40 motorway at the top of Stokenchurch hill, and these days in parts of the reserve the skylarks are drowned out by the roar of traffic – but it’s still a glorious place.
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Glowworms at Swinbrook
John C writes:
Who, late on a warm summer evening, doesn’t delight in finding a glowing female glowworm? The reaction of someone seeing one for the first time is always ‘Oh, WOW!’
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Red Legged Shield Bugs
John C writes:
Watering my tomatoes the other evening, I came across this pair of red-legged shield bugs on one of the canes.
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Unusual Starling
Adrian State writes:
I got rather excited today, I was eating my breakfast in the back garden at 6:30am when I spotted this unusual starling amongst the flock of up to 150 starlings I regularly get on my back lawn in Brize Norton.
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A Visit to the Windrush Valley
A Visit to the Valley – 17 July 2022
On the very sunny morning of Sunday 17 July, a small group of Field Club members set off to explore the flowers and wildlife of the Windrush River Valley. We started at the top of Tower Hill in Witney and headed very slowly in the direction of Crawley looking for plants and admiring the many Swifts overhead.
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Shilton Swifts
David Roberts writes:
We have been having a good year in Shilton again this year with our Swifts, up until the last couple of exceptionally hot days. It was a slow start in May and June but things picked up after this with good numbers of 25-30 birds.
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Hailey Road Rescues
Sue Morton writes:
Recently I’ve saved two day-glo green creatures from a messy end on the pavement in Hailey Road. The first was an oak bush-cricket nymph which was wandering around on the pavement under a large lime tree.
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Colourful Bugs
John Cobb writes:
Butterflies and moths, and dragonflies are probably the largest, most spectacular insects we get in the UK and have a big following. Others, although much smaller, can also be colourful and worth a close look. If they’re busy feeding they also tend to stay put, and let you look at them!
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Somerset May 2022
Somerset. We got there in the end. This club visit to Somerset was originally arranged for May 2020 but we all know what happened; things were still uncertain a year later but third time lucky.
Eighteen of us, with Peter Creed as leader and expert, stayed from Sunday 29 to Tuesday 31 May in the Grange Hotel at Brent Knoll, just east of Burnham and south of Weston Super Mare (or ‘Aggie on horseback’, as a sailor might refer to it).
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