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Friends of Aston Rowant NNR sharing sightings and activities on and around the reserve. Tag us to share the news!
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
23.09.2025 16:20 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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
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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
10.08.2025 19:56 — 👍 29 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The #Chalk downland @rowantnnr.bsky.social now enters its purple phase: clustered bellflower, hare bell and sways of scabious!
10.08.2025 11:45 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
29.07.2025 16:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations Cathy 👏
29.07.2025 16:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chalkhill Blue. Aston Rowant NNR 25/7/25
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Silver-spotted Skipper beginning to emerge at Aston Rowant NNR. Six counted 25/7/25.
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Unbelievable blue of the Adonis @rowantnnr.bsky.social 🦋
26.07.2025 16:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A cooler weather for our surveyors on their transect this week: Ringlet, Chalkhill Blue & Small Heath aplenty @rowantnnr.bsky.social
24.07.2025 11:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
19.07.2025 15:05 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Such a better #summer for our #butterflies! The downland @rowantnnr.bsky.social is heaving with lots of species including gatekeepers and peacocks 🦋 #pollinators
15.07.2025 19:18 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0An interesting find @rowantnnr.bsky.social 🌸🌸🌸
09.07.2025 11:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dingy White Plume
Reddish Light Arches
Brown Scallop
Shaded Pug
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
12.06.2025 19:31 — 👍 48 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
A peaceful end to a rather busy week @rowantnnr.bsky.social - Red kites calling all around - #conservation #grazing 🐑
04.07.2025 17:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A beautiful sunken way @rowantnnr.bsky.social - an interesting historic feature, now stuffed with #chalkgrassland #flowers & #butterflies 🌸🦋
30.06.2025 17:17 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What a stunner! A fantastic Privet hawk #moth found whilst a recent #volunteer group was working on some fence repairs @rowantnnr.bsky.social
27.06.2025 17:26 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
26.06.2025 14:03 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Small-flowered Sweet-briar, Rosa micrantha, on chalk grassland. Aston Rowant NNR, South Oxfordshire. #wildflowerhour. Not #urbanplants but very close to the M40!
15.06.2025 19:55 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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
16.06.2025 20:31 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
