Fly Orchids starting to appear in the Chilterns this week wildflowerhour #wildflowerhour #orchids @ChilternsAONB Britain's Orchids European Orchids & Wildflowers Wild Orchids UK & Ireland BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

𝗗𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝘆 wildflowerhour @ChilternsAONB Britain's Orchids European Orchids & Wildflowers Wild Orchids UK & Ireland BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland And in Cumbria

Over 60 countryside guided walks and outdoor events in the beautiful #Chilterns landscape. Book here👉🏻 chilternsaonb.org/whats-on/walki…
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Oxfordshire. 12/8/2023.
An unusual Epipactis purpurata. The lower flowers are normal but the upper flowers are not, with only 2 petals and sepals.
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Dadimas had 3 generations walking over 10km today The Ridgeway National Trail Youngest was 2, upto 70s. Super walking weather🌳🌞 Yummy snacks, inc home-made oreo barfi.

Grt to see Mary-Ann Ochota & family w Clare Warren Yoseph Araya @ChilternsAONB Edel McGurk Kate Ashbrook R Duncan Gray

@ChilternsAONB nice selection of fungi today all in one wood Jamie warren

The historic Aylesbury Prune, a type of plum, was harvested by the tonne in the Chilterns for the London market and for dying in the local straw hat industry. Local farmers are now re-establishing this fruit tree alongside grazing. Chalk Cherries and Chairs Team The National Lottery Heritage Fund @ChilternsAONB

When you’re wet and grumpy.
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Stop HS2 For context, #HS2 sinkhole is yards from South Bucks Way in @ChilternsAONB where today many families are out walking. Also yards from River Misbourne, a fragile chalk ChilternChalkStreams. @hs2ltd Ruislip not a one-off is it? Paul Jennings Environment Agency

Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui. 13/7/2023. Oxon
30 mins of sunshine on a wild marjoram patch beside a field brought out the butterflies in force, including this pristine specimen. The colourful spots on the underwing were dazzling; What a beauty!
Butterfly Conservation 🦋
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We have no clue ‘Who Killed Cock Robin?’ - but we do know that The Cock & Rabbit café at Lee Green was a delightful find for our walkers on a warm and sunny day!

There were no murders at Badger’s Drift on our guided walk @ChilternsAONB - just good conversation and camaraderie

An impromptu Spitfire flypast added to the pleasure of a walk in leafy South Oxfordshire today. @ChilternsAONB @VisitChilterns Southern Oxfordshire South Oxfordshire DC Tempest Books Classic Warbirds The Spitfire Society Test

#GentianFamily @ChilternsAONB Watlington Hill.
#WildflowerID . Autumn,hybrid or Chiltern? wildflowerhour

Ugly #concrete #viaduct approved for #Chilterns #AONB at #Wendover .
During the 2011 *CON*sultation, #HS2 fans were promising they'd be beautiful structures like #Ribblehead
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Can hardly hear yourself speak at Cannon Mill with the #RiverChess in full flow. R. Chess Association Chesham Town Council ChilternChalkStreams @ChilternsAONB Chiltern Society

Elaine King Frances Cutler 🍃💚🍃 Joe Lycett Paul Jennings @ChilternsAONB They are however, according to the Environment Agency, over abstracting local chalk streams to the tune of about 430 million litres of water per day.

That by far and away is the largest over abstraction chalk stream abuse in the country. See below👇all as a result of Affinity Water 🦆

Oxfordshire 21/08/2023.
Silver-spotted Skippers from Watlington Hill and Aston Rowant, seen in the last few days; Chalkhill Blue and a Frog orchid from Aston Rowant today.
AstonRowantNNR Chiltern Countryside BC Upper Thames @ChilternsAONB BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Wild Orchids UK & Ireland

Jon travelled from @Quantockhills to @ChilternsAONB this weekend for their monthly Dadima’s walk led by Dr Geeta Ludhra. A 10km walk along this beautiful stretch of the River Thames supported with storytelling from the Open University’s environmental scientists OU: Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences.

Boxing day hiking and swimming with the human pack in the @ChilternsAONB

Ivinghoe Beacon National Trust @ChilternsAONB #Buckinghamshire

A dramatically sited triangular 2.2ha univallate Iron Age hillfort 😍

Now: kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2018 hdf.me.uk

Then: recreation © Mark Gridley 2020 markgridley.carbonmade.com/projects/47566…

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