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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This will be a really interesting webinar from Dr Tim King about @rowantnnr.bsky.social and the long term research on site

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Craig Jones @craig63jones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Second brood male Adonis Blue. Aston Rowant NNR, Oxon 3/8/26 @rowantnnr.bsky.social @upperthames.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Craig Jones @craig63jones.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Silver-spotted Skipper at Aston Rowant NNR yesterday (1/8/26.) @rowantnnr.bsky.social @upperthames.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Check out the spines on this fascinating bug! Found running on bare disturbed chalk soil at Aston Rowant #NNR Coriomerus denticulatus the Denticulate Leatherbug @rowantnnr.bsky.social @britishbugs.bsky.social

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Recording rare Broad-leaved Cudweed Filago pyramidata introduction in an annually rotovated chalk field in the NNR at Aston Rowant @rowantnnr.bsky.social Many 1000s of plants in the dead & brown stage. A big success story @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The wonderfully loud Wren - a lovely composition of adult and juvenile spotted @rowantnnr.bsky.social

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What a wonderful collection of #moths, recorded @rowantnnr.bsky.social - Elephant Hawk-moth, Privet Hawk-moth & a clever little Buff-tip pretending to be a stick!

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Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Acleris logiana (White Birch Tortrix) reared from a pupa found in a spinning between two birch leaves at Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire 10 days ago. #teammoth @rowantnnr.bsky.social

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Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Good time (as always) mothing at @rowantnnr.bsky.social on Saturday. Highlights were mines of Stigmella sorbi (Barred Rowan Dot), new for me and 1st for Oxfordshire, my second ever Eastern Bordered Straw & Grass Rivulet, Cistus Forester & an adult Bucculatrix frangulella (Buckthorn Tuft). #teammoth

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Flowering now at Aston Rowant #NNR on the Chilterns. Lots of chalk grassland species but here Fragrant Orchid, Vipers Bugloss, Yellow Wort (and hoverfly) and a (presumed) Common Broomrape. Plenty to see despite the very dry spring, recent showers helped a lot @rowantnnr.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It doesn’t get much better than a Pyramidal orchid in the sunshine - look at that pink! @rowantnnr.bsky.social #orchid #wildflower

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Nice visit today to @rowantnnr.bsky.social with @rhulbiology.bsky.social practical field ecology class. Did vegetation and lichen surveys and seen some lovely greater butterfly orchids as well

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The very dry ground conditions here @rowantnnr.bsky.social this Spring, are making it tough, for some of our special #orchids - this White helleborine and Greater butterfly were spotted by @judywebb.bsky.social - trying their best!

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Not much matches the stunning green of the green hairstreak #butterfly, here spotted at @rowantnnr.bsky.social whilst on a butterfly transect

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Of course, the butterflies of the chalk grasslands are stunning…. but what a lovely little common purple & gold moth this is @rowantnnr.bsky.social #teammoth

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Pleased to find the first couple of Early Purple Orchids Orchis mascula in flower at Aston Rowant NNR chalk grassland @rowantnnr.bsky.social beautiful & apparently used to be so common, but now scarce. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Oxford Conservation Volunteers @oxconservation.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Happy spring, everyone! 🌺 Come celebrate the sunshine with us, on a task at Aston Rowant NNR, in South Oxfordshire @rowantnnr.bsky.social – that's tomorrow, Sunday 22nd. We will be removing scrub encroaching on the base Beacon Hill, and repairing a fence. #Oxford ocv.org.uk

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Wonderful to hear Tom Bindoff awarded a BEM! Such a great volunteer for Aston Rowant NNR @rowantnnr.bsky.social

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Chilterns beechwoods, stunning just now, before the beautiful autumn colour leaves all are blown to the ground. Then they are are nice to kick through as you walk through the woods & great for #fungi of course Aston Rowant NNR @chilternsnl.bsky.social @rowantnnr.bsky.social

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Grassland #fungi time Excellent finds at Aston Rowant NNR included earthtongues, yellow spindles, beige coral, parrot waxcaps & the rare tiny brown toadstools called Fanvaults -the Hodophilus (Camarophyllopsis) species (last 2) some of which smell of mothballs! #fungifriends @rowantnnr.bsky.social

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

A big mystery of autumn. Why are certain #fungi fruiting bodies spectacular colours? Yes a lot are white buff /brown, but bright yellow, red, green, blue -just why? L -Parrot waxcaps here from @rowantnnr.bsky.social. Green (look hard) & yellow, go pink later. R- Orange cup Melastiza cornubiensis

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Trying to help Juniper regeneration at Aston Rowant NNR chalk grassland on the Chilterns. Collecting Juniper berries to de-flesh & sow in scrapes & planting out a 3 yr old rooted cutting. Protection needed from rabbits, sheep and deer grazing for any young plants! @rowantnnr.bsky.social

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Devil's bolete Rubroboletus satanas up in root zone of beeches at Aston Rowant NNR on the Chilterns. Nearby also Rooting Bolete Caloboletus radicans (yellow pores) and Lurid Bolete Suillellus luridus with Rockrose slow blueing with the first, faster with others #fungifriends @rowantnnr.bsky.social

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Amazing in this drought in the south that fungi are somehow sourcing enough water from rain showers to fruit. Aston Rowant NNR on Chilterns shows spectacular growths of Giant polypore Meripilus giganteus at the base of several dead beech trees @rowantnnr.bsky.social @fungiflowers.bsky.social

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

It's a male Chalkhill Bue butterfly but is the flower a gentian or a Clustered Bellflower I'm trying to turn it into... #pollinatorpals @wildflowerhour.bsky.social r. #WildflowerID @rowantnnr.bsky.social

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The #Chalk downland @rowantnnr.bsky.social now enters its purple phase: clustered bellflower, hare bell and sways of scabious!

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Our annual count of Broad-leaved Cudweed @rowantnnr.bsky.social under sunshine this year! Huge thanks to Oxfordshire Flora Group & @judywebb.bsky.social for joining us - the numbers are looking promising for this important species in our #arable plots - @rbgkew.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

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Craig Jones @craig63jones.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Chalkhill Blue. Aston Rowant NNR 25/7/25 @rowantnnr.bsky.social @upperthames.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Craig Jones @craig63jones.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Silver-spotted Skipper beginning to emerge at Aston Rowant NNR. Six counted 25/7/25. @rowantnnr.bsky.social @upperthames.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A cooler weather for our surveyors on their transect this week: Ringlet, Chalkhill Blue & Small Heath aplenty @rowantnnr.bsky.social

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Great! found 8 Narrow-lipped Helleborines in flower at Aston Rowant #NNR in beechwood on chalk over last weeks - first time seen on site since 2016! Combo of two wet years followed by hot & dry yr? @rowantnnr.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @chilternsnl.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Such a better #summer for our #butterflies! The downland @rowantnnr.bsky.social is heaving with lots of species including gatekeepers and peacocks 🦋 #pollinators

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Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Enjoyable mothing at Aston Rowant NNR last night with @marcbotham.bsky.social A keen easterly wind limited the catch, but saw some really nice stuff that I don’t normally see incl Dingy White Plume, Reddish Light Arches, Brown Scallop, Large Nutmeg, Shaded & Satyr Pugs & Aethes tesserana. #teammoth

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A peaceful end to a rather busy week @rowantnnr.bsky.social - Red kites calling all around - #conservation #grazing 🐑

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

A beautiful sunken way @rowantnnr.bsky.social - an interesting historic feature, now stuffed with #chalkgrassland #flowers & #butterflies 🌸🦋

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

What a stunner! A fantastic Privet hawk #moth found whilst a recent #volunteer group was working on some fence repairs @rowantnnr.bsky.social

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Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve @rowantnnr.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Swathes of flowers @rowantnnr.bsky.social under the sunshine this week, including one of our favourites - Squinancywort. Here it can be found carpeting the tops of Yellow meadow ant hills #wildflower #NNR

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harty491.bsky.social @harty491.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Small-flowered Sweet-briar, Rosa micrantha, on chalk grassland. Aston Rowant NNR, South Oxfordshire. #wildflowerhour. Not #urbanplants but very close to the M40!

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Spectacular swathes of Common Valerian & Dropwort at #AstonRowant #NNR. Two of my favourite flowers & Dropwort always characteristic of old #grassland in my experience. When does Dropwort ever colonise any new areas today? The Valerian scent was beautiful. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflower

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