| Around Shotover | Book Launch | Courses and Training | Public Events |
| Shotover Conference | Species Surveying and Identification | SW Initiatives | |
| Miscellaneous | |||
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| Scaly Male-fern in Brasenose Wood |
Brasenose Wood from Horspath |
Capsules of the moss Funaria hygrometrica |
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| Marsh Valerian and Bugle in Long Marsh |
The Mug Tree in the mist |
The Mug Tree at sunrise |
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| Inside an ancient coppiced Ash |
One of Shotover's wonderful trees |
A carpet of Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage in Bottom Ground |
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| A mining bee emerging from its nest |
Forest Bug |
Fungi in the evening sunshine |
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| Bracken in the evening sun |
Common Toad: frequently encountered on Conservation Days |
Misty morning on the Hill |
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| The Shotover Oak: pre-July 2015 |
The Shotover Oak: July 2015 |
The Shotover Oak: July 2015 |
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| Music as launch guests arrive |
Our guests at the launch - Lady Margaret Hall |
Seven years work and a book is born |
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| The celebration cake |
Nine authors launch the book |
One of the guests of honour |
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| Botanists' induction day for a year of 'Adopt-a-Sector' |
A day course on Andrena mining bees |
A handy height bough for a bryophyte instructional |
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| Bryophyte instructional on Shotover |
Two microscopes each for students on the SW bryophyte course |
A grasses identification workshop |
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| Grasses identification aided by camera technology |
Identification Workshop 'Trees in Winter' |
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| 'All about bees': An outing for Buzbee on the Hill. |
The famous geological layer-cake. An edible model of Shotover with broccoli trees and raisin boulders. |
'Fun with Geology': cooking the ochre |
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| 'Fun with Geology': different colours from one piece of ochre |
'Fun with Geology': painting with natural colours |
The School Safari: looking at nesting woodpeckers |
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| The School Safari: looking at what we found |
The School Safari: dressing Buzbee |
A tour of Shotover's fine trees |
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| Arranging the palaeontology cabinet |
Setting up the exhibition |
Conference Reception: getting ready to welcome delegates |
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| 9:59am and ready to begin |
Shotover Wildlife Chairman opens the day |
Richard Comont on beetles |
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| The Moss Boss speaks |
A speaker entertains |
Delegates in the exhibition |
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| A busy discussion panel to end the day |
Discussing the Shotover crocodile |
Thanks to Darren from the organising team |
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| Badgers caught on night camera |
Bryology: if you can't reach the tree top - wait till it comes to you! |
Extracting tree-ring data in Brasenose Wood |
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| Tree-ring measurement: a slice from a felled oak |
Insect survey day: sweep netting |
Insect survey day: sweep netting |
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| Insect survey day: labelling sample pots |
Mammals work: live sampling |
Pigmy Shrew on Shotover |
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| Moth trapping during the BENHS weekend |
The malaise trap at Long Marsh |
A vane trap in Brasenose Wood |
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| Shotover Ancient Trees An old boundary Lime goes onto the inventory |
Shotover Ancient Trees Measuring the girth of the 'Bendy Birch' - standard rules don't apply! |
Shotover Ancient Trees Ted Green (Ancient Tree Forum) explains |
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| Shotover Ancient Trees Protecting the iconic Shotover Oak from soil compaction - Before |
Shotover Ancient Trees Protecting the iconic Shotover Oak from soil compaction - During |
Shotover Ancient Trees Protecting the iconic Shotover Oak from soil compation - During |
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| Shotover Ancient Trees Protecting the iconic Shotover Oak from soil compaction - During |
Shotover Ancient Trees Protecting the iconic Shotover Oak from soil compaction - After |
Acidic Grassland Habitat Project Removing topsoil and bracken rhizomes |
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| Acidic Grassland Habitat Project Bill's careful and accurate excavator work |
Acidic Grassland Habitat Project Early moring start on Scrape 1 |
Acidic Grassland Habitat Project Scrape 1 completed |
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| Acidic Grassland Habitat Project The very early arrival of Early Hair-grass |
Acidic Grassland Habitat Project Six years on - moss cover and an impressively slow succession |
Field reception for the BENHS survey weekend |
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| Shotover Natural Heritage Survey training day - Terrestrial Bugs |
Shotover Natural Heritage Survey training day - True Flies |
Shotover Natural Heritage Sorting insects in the Horspath Hub community venue |
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| This COULD be Shotover's first ever recorded insect. The Black Oil Beetle recorded by Rev.F.W.Hope from 1819 (Oxford University Museum). |
A dear friend: Harriet the injured queen hornet |
Never pass up the opportunity for a ride in the Shotover Wildlife Land Rover! |
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| There's always time for a spot of mossing ... |
Tiny, exquisit and rare. A capsule of Pogonatum nanum |
The Wicked World of Bees and Wasps. Fun in schools: girl 'workers' defend the nest from 'pests' |
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| Hungry bumblebees after a day at school |
Never been cleaner! |