Hello,
This Sunday's Community Day sees us planting out the rare wildflowers that we've all worked so hard to propagate.
The new UK Red List for plants puts: Devil's Bit Scabious, Pepper Saxifrage, Betony, Quaking grass, Marsh Marigold, Tubular Water Dropwort, Bladder Campion and Saw wort as ‘likely to go extinct in the wild’… making our work even more vital - we better keep sowing and planting!
We hope to see those of you that can make it from 10am - 1pm.
- MEET: Long Mead Local Wildlife Site - 10am
- PLANTING OUT: Changeable Furlongs West - till 1pm
- CAKE: approx 11am! Please bring your own hot drinks
- ATTIRE: Wellies and working clothes - it's not due to rain but likely to be muddy
- EQUIPMENT: Gloves and a Trowel if you have them
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Latest Articles & News
Wednesday Group Clear the Coppice!
This Wednesday network members worked hard to clear the willow coppice of abandoned cut material, bundling it up and raking a huge area in anticipation of the creation of a new wet woodland. Well done all!
Water Vole Spotting!
Our resident water expert and trustee Lucy Dickinson was astonished to see a water vole swimming in broad daylight in the Chilbrook in Eynsham last week! She says: "Just swam past me on the Chilbrook! I've been looking for about the last 4 years and never seen one before [...] I was so excited I nearly dropped my phone in the water!"
Kestrel Dinners
Discover what the Kestrals nesting at Long Mead ate over the course of a year, from analysis conducted by Linda Losito, a beetle expert, and Bob Cowley, a small mammal expert in Kevan Martin's report here
image: KACM
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NRN Events calendar:
Sunday 16th November - 10am - 1pm - Community Plant Propagation Day
Planting out the wildflowers we've nurtured together — after 18 months of hard work to propagate them. [More Info]
Hedge-Planting dates: Creating a Network for Nature
NEW Hedge Laying Weekend Workshop!
- Saturday 21st February 2026 - 10am - 3pm - workshop - please register
- Sunday 22nd February 2026 - 10am - 3pm - practical - all welcome!
Come and learn how to lay a hedge with the Oxford Conversation Volunteers (OCV) as part of our Hedge in Time Project
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As the network continues to grow it is incurring significant costs to do what it is doing for our local nature.
Those of you who are not already members of NRN, we'd love you to join (£10 per year).
Please click here and give our local wildlife a present by becoming an NRN member! Not only will you be supporting compost/tool purchase etc. but you will get free access to all our survey workshops and discounted or no rates for workshops that we charge for.
We all look forward to sharing some time together in the Great Outdoors!
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