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New lambs AstonRowantNNR! - once settled, they’ll be mixed in with the adult #Conservation #grazing flocks 🐏🐑

Butterflies 2024: Adonis Blue, Aston Rowant, August 16. Photo not previously posted. AstonRowantNNR BC Upper Thames Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Butterflies 2024: Chalkhill Blue, Aston Rowant, August 16. Photo not previously posted. AstonRowantNNR BC Upper Thames Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Common Spotted Orchids #DactylorhizaFuchsii in AstonRowantNNR this week. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Wild Orchids UK & Ireland @Britainsorchids #30DaysWild #WildFlowerHour #WildOrchids #365DaysWild rhs.org.uk/plants/101767/…

But more excitingly Greater Butterfly Orchid (#PlatantheraChlorantha) at AstonRowantNNR. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Wild Orchids UK & Ireland Britain's Orchids #30DaysWild #WildFlowerHour #WildOrchids #365DaysWild woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-an…

Swathes of flowers AstonRowantNNR 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

What a stunner! A fantastic Privet hawk #moth found whilst a recent #volunteer group was working on some fence repairs AstonRowantNNR

Volunteer day clearing path on a sunken way which is over run with wildflowers on both banks. The scent of wild marjoram, butterflies galore, saw my first gatekeeper this year and yes the roar of the M40, but down in the sunken way it’s a bit less noisy.. Aston Rowant CC BBO Wildlife Trust

A beautiful sunken way AstonRowantNNR - an interesting historic feature, now stuffed with #chalkgrassland #flowers & #butterflies 🌸🦋

A lovely day in one of our favourite sunken ways AstonRowantNNR with grand company 🌸

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

Such a better #summer for our #butterflies! The downland AstonRowantNNR is heaving with lots of species including gatekeepers and peacocks 🦋 #pollinators

Found this male Phasia hemiptera at Aston Rowant, Oxon this morning. A very smart and attractive fly.

Mating pairs of both Downland Robberfly (Machimus rusticus) and Kite-tailed Robberfly (Tolmerus atricapillus) at Aston Rowant NNR yesterday morning.

A cooler weather for our surveyors on their transect this week: Ringlet, Chalkhill Blue & Small Heath aplenty #Butterflies AstonRowantNNR BC Upper Thames

Silver-spotted Skipper beginning to emerge at Aston Rowant NNR. Six counted this morning AstonRowantNNR BC Upper Thames Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Second brood Adonis Blue. Aston Rowant NNR 25/7/25 AstonRowantNNR BC Upper Thames Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Chalkhill Blue. Aston Rowant NNR 25/7/25 AstonRowantNNR BC Upper Thames Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Our annual count of Broad-leaved Cudweed AstonRowantNNR under sunshine! Huge thanks to the Oxfordshire Flora Group & Judy Webb for joining us - the numbers are looking promising for this important species in our #arable plots - Plantlife #kew

Lovely afternoon AstonRowantNNR , perched high on the Chiltern escarpment. Saw all the key butterfly species.