Category: Club

6th September 2026

This BBOWT reserve just outside Oxford has it all – limestone grassland, broadleaved woodland, heathland, a stream and a fen, all in a 20 hectare area. A small group met to explore this interesting site at the end of a prolonged dry spell, but before the rains started in earnest, so the going underfoot was still good.

16 August 2026

I’ve been a bit slow posting this report of the Club’s walk at Chimney, which took place on a blisteringly hot day in this year’s long, hot and very dry summer. Indeed, it was so hot that we brought forward the start time from 2pm to 10am to avoid the worst of the heat. One of the most striking features of the walk for me was the contrast between the lush green vegetation along the river banks and the parched yellow everywhere else. Maggie’s report of the walk is below.

9th August 2026

Nine members met at this Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust reserve high up on top of the Cotswolds on a warm sunny morning, hoping to find butterflies, and maybe even some autumn gentians in flower.

23 July 2026

It was a perfect evening for our annual glow worm hunt, warm and still. All we needed to do was to stay awake until it got dark.

19th July 2026

Anyone parking in Waitrose’s car park in Witney at 9.30am on 19 July might have wondered what we were doing, earnestly peering into the undergrowth.

2nd July 2026

When walking with the Field Club it is invariably handy to have sharp eyesight. On this occasion, eight pretty sharp-eyed people joined Roger Newman for the walk and our joint ocular prowess really paid off!

28 June 2026

We had an early start to watch our moth expert, Julian Howe, open the moth traps that he had set up the previous evening in a lovely, wildlife-friendly garden in Shilton. What would we find?

20 June, 2026

As Field Club walks go, this really was a cracker! We were so fortunate in having a warm but not too hot a day, particularly as the following
day reached 28 degrees. In addition, we had a really great leader in the form of Craig Blackwell who made our walk both informative and fun.

10 June 2026

The visit to Long Mead Meadow at Swinford, near Eynsham, was arranged following a talk given to us by Catriona Bass in the autumn and presented a great opportunity to see what we had learned about for real.

31 May to 3 June, 2026

The Wyre Forest, near Kidderminster in Worcestershire, is a hidden gem, little known outside the area but rich in wildlife. Luckily for us, the Club’s President, Peter Creed, knows it well and led us on a three day visit in late May/early June.