Autumn is the best season for finding mushrooms, and it’s pretty much over for this year. Here are a few new ones I photographed in the wood – not necessarily uncommon, just haven’t yet made […]
In case you haven’t made it to the wood recently, here are a few pictures of summer I took last week. The pretty Herb-robert, a type of cranesbill Red campion Hedge woundwort, historically used for […]
Dear Friends
The wood is really beautiful at this time of the year—see these photos, and go and visit it yourself.
Wendy
Here are a few photos from this Sunday’s Fungi Foray at Oakley Wood.
The event, led by Ben Devine from Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and local mycologist Dave Champion, was a great success. 40 or so people joined us on a fine, sunny October morning to forage for fungi and learn more about their importance to woodland. Amongst the many species of fungus that were found one highlight was a couple of examples of Pseudoboletus parasiticus, a rare parasitic fungus that grows on earthballs and was barely known in Warwickshire a decade ago.
Spring in Oakley Wood. Because you can’t have too many pictures of bluebells!
These photos of Oakley Wood were taken by FoOW member Chris Wood.
These photographs were taken by Friends of Oakley Wood member Chris Wood during a day of butterfly recording in July 2013.
Photos by Ed Phillips
The Friends of Oakley Wood were fortunate enough to secure a grant through the Central Warwickshire Villages LEADER project to enable them to fund some traditional horse drawn timber extraction
