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Nature has an amazing capacity to surprise. A kingfisher caught on camera appearing to investigate (or even taste!) an otter spraint at Waterstock Local Wildlife Site. Any ideas what's going on here? 🤔

#WildlifeRecording #CameraTrap #LocalWildlifeSite
September 23, 2026 at 8:03 AM
tverc1.bsky.social
🌿 After a hot summer in the field, our Biodiversity Officers are wrapping up this year's #LocalWildlifeSite survey season. Next comes analysing the results and producing reports to help inform future decisions for these important sites.

👉https://tverc.org/data-hub/local-wildlife-sites-lws
September 24, 2026 at 10:38 AM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
The first of our Primroses are just starting to flower in The Slade entrance to the Valley. 😊
Planted by our volunteers over a number of years, they're one more #SignsOfSpring.
#WildflowerHour #OX3 #LocalWildlifeSite #GreenSpace
@judywebb.bsky.social
Just to the right of centre a group of very pale yellow flowers with darker yellow centres with orange lines radiating from the centre of the flower. There is another flower top left slightly out of focus. They're growing up through grass and some thin dead twigs. Their leaves are a dark crinkly green.
March 10, 2026 at 8:25 AM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
I think we've reached peak Kidney Vetch at Rock Edge on what was formerly amenity grassland. Amazing transformation thanks to volunteers and a
#NoMow policy from Oxford City Council.
#LocalWildlifeSite #GreenSpace #OX3 #WildFlowerHour
A mass of yellow flowers with red tips interspersed with a few purple flowers.
July 6, 2024 at 7:56 AM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
Our project with Oxford City Council to bring wildflowers back to the amenity grassland at Rock Edge is bearing fruit. Ox-eye Daisies slowly spreading across the whole site, and this profusion of flowers by Old Road is just stunning! #SSSI #LocalWildlifeSite #OX3 #WildFlowerHour
At the front right is a bench on a pavement. Behind it is a mass of yellow and white flowers (Kidney Vetch and Ox-eye Daisies). At the back of the photo are houses flanked by a few trees. The sky is a light blue with cumulus clouds.
June 9, 2024 at 9:24 AM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
It's #WorldWetlandsDay, and this is the Lye Valley SSSI fen, an internationally rare habitat right in the middle of East Oxford. Home to rare plants and insects, its peat acts as a huge carbon store. Find out more here: www.friendsoflyevalley.org.uk
#OxfordshireFens #LocalWildlifeSite
A valley filled with a riot of plants and flowers, crowding up to and over a boardwalk which runs through the centre of the photo. There's a small information board just left of centre. The sky is blue with lots of white clouds, with some black. It's lined with trees.
February 2, 2024 at 9:31 AM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
A view south down the Lye Valley in weak early April sunshine. (And yes, it was freezing cold!)
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#LocalWildlifeSite #SSSI #WildOxford #OxfordshireFens #Spring #landscape
December 6, 2024 at 12:42 AM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
Delighted to welcome two new volunteers to the Valley this week! They were quickly put to work raking the west fen and carrying the cut material to build up the eroded banks of the Lye Brook.
#OxfordshireFens #FenRestoration #OX3 #SSSI #LocalWildlifeSite @judywebb.bsky.social
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To the left of the photo a young man in dark blue clothing is holding a rake with yellow prongs above a pile of cut reed and rush. In the centre a young woman in bright red bobble hat, dark top and bright green leggings also has a rake. Immediately behind the cut reed is a dark green drag sheet, and running from left to right is a brown boardwalk. Behind that is an area of green vegetation. At the far left of the photo a young man in dark clothing with his sleeves rolled up is wearing dark gloves. In the centre of the photo a young woman in bright red bobble hat, dark top and yellow wellies is carrying a drag sheet stuffed with a roll of cut reed and rush. She's walking over an area of short green vegetation while in the background are carious mostly dark green shrubs and ivy plants.
October 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
tverc1.bsky.social
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Join Catriona Bass at #TVERCconf as she shares insights from Long Mead #LocalWildlifeSite

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August 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
We were gifted a washing up bowl full of Primroses this week! Our volunteers wasted no time in planting them amongst a mass of Garlic Mustard to make our rather unattractive entrance a little more colourful. 😊
#OX3 #LocalWildlifeSite #GreenSpace
A grey washing bowl on the ground full of Primroses in flower. There is also a single Primrose in a pot to the right of the bowl. Two women bending over next to a wall with graffiti are planting Primroses. A garden fork is leaning against the wall.
March 29, 2024 at 10:54 AM
tverc1.bsky.social
Earlier this month, our team spotted Marsh Arrowgrass (Triglochin palustris) during a #LocalWildlifeSite survey near Crawley. While not particularly rare, this species can be tricky to identify until it flowers or fruits — making this a lovely find!

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August 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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July 6, 2024 at 8:00 AM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
Some of you may be aware that many years ago we had an old (and rather slippy) wooden boardwalk running through the Valley. What many won't realise is that it's still there, running below the new one. Here's a glimpse of history!
#OxfordshireFens #LocalWildlifeSite #SSSI
December 5, 2024 at 8:19 PM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
It's Primula time in the Valley! 😃
Our first Primroses (Primula vulgaris) are now in flower, and our first Cowslip (Primula veris) is very nearly almost out! Both in The Slade entrance to the Lye Valley.
#SignsOfSpring #LocalWildlifeSite #WildOxford
December 5, 2024 at 8:19 PM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#LocalWildlifeSite
December 5, 2024 at 7:11 PM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
Just planted seven healthy Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa) plants at Rock Edge in one of the new scrapes. This is a species that was historically recorded from this old quarry and had disappeared. We're reintroducing it. 😀
#LocalWildlifeSite #OX3
December 5, 2024 at 7:01 PM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
We were gifted a washing up bowl full of Primroses this week! Our volunteers wasted no time in planting them amongst a mass of Garlic Mustard to make our rather unattractive entrance a little more colourful. 😊
#OX3 #LocalWildlifeSite #GreenSpace
December 5, 2024 at 6:55 PM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
Our project with @ODS_doinggood to bring wildflowers back to the amenity grassland at Rock Edge is bearing fruit. Ox-eye Daisies slowly spreading across the whole site, and this profusion of flowers by Old Road is just stunning! #SSSI #LocalWildlifeSite
@RosalindRogers
December 5, 2024 at 6:50 PM
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
I think we've reached peak Kidney Vetch at Rock Edge on what was formerly amenity grassland. Amazing transformation thanks to volunteers and a #NoMow policy from @ODS_doinggood.
#LocalWildlifeSite #GreenSpace @RosalindRogers
December 5, 2024 at 6:40 PM