I didn’t really have a plan for this week….
I was planning to turn out for a BBOWT work party at the Chilswell Valley on Monday morning, but when that was cancelled I decided that I might as well head round to Chilswell Valley for an early morning walk in the sunshine - and it would at least provide some pictures to add to my picture of the day collection. I also took the opportunity to make some short videos while I was there - not with the intention of doing anything with the videos, but just so I could rip the audio track to give a richer sense of what it was like around the valley on a sunny Monday morning in May.
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| Monday - Looking to the city - from the Chilswell Valley |
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| Monday - On the Chilswell Valley boardwalk |
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| Monday - Into the Valley |
Having enjoyed Happy Valley (the traditional local name for Chilswell Valley) I thought I should revisit another of my local nature reserves, Lye Valley, for my morning walk on Tuesday. This time I took a rather better microphone to plug in to the camera (I bought the microphone about a year ago, with the - as yet uncompleted - plan to record wave sounds around Shetland).
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| Tuesday - Lye Valley boardwalk |
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| Tuesday - Deep in the Lye Valley |
In addition to being local reserves both Chilswell and Lye Valley are also part of the Wild Oxford project (being run by BBOWT), so since the weather still looked promising I decided that my Wednesday walk needed to be another Wild Oxford site - this time Rivermead Nature Park to the south of the city.
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| Wednesday - Rivermead Nature Park |
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| Wednesday - Pond life at Rivermead |
And having visited three of the four Wild Oxford sites over the first three days of the week, I really didn’t have any option but to visit the fourth site, Raleigh Park, on Thursday. The morning weather really wasn’t encouraging, but by lunchtime the rain had passed through and I got my pictures (and an audio recording) from Raleigh Park to add to the set.
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| Thursday - Spires from the top of Raleigh Park |
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| Thursday - Yellow Flag Irises at Raleigh Park |
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| Thursday - Lost in Raleigh Park |
I do like
it when the week looks like
there was a master plan - but I probably shouldn't have started getting quite so wild about Oxford this close to 30 Days Wild - but I guess all four of these places can expect a return visit next month.
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