Wendy Tobitt 💙

💙 Citizen of Europe. Chair Thames Path NT Partnership, Friend of the Ridgeway NT, counting riverflies with ARK, member North Wessex Downs Council of Partners

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

@thorneh Beautiful view Hedley!

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@DailyPicTheme2 The first Brimstone butterfly of the year in my garden on 5 March, for #DailyPictureTheme

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Two Painted Lady butterflies enjoying the 'arable weeds' habitat of Bessie's Field next to @earth_trust Wittenham Woods, with Brightwell Barrow in the distance.
#wildflowerhour #butterflies @UpperThamesBC

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From The Friends of The Ridgeway:
Chill out with this fabulous frosty dawn view of Lowbury Hill, taken by Hedley Thorne in December 2022.
This photo is the inspiration for an artistic illustration of Lowbury Hill that features on the new interpretation board installed on a hot day earlier this week. Thank you Hayley and Dan from the Historic Ridgeway Project team, working hard to put in the board 🌞
The Historic Ridgeway Project is supported by Historic England and the North Wessex Downs National Landscape.

#ridgeway #nationaltrail

West Berkshire Heritage
Ridgeway National Trail
Cotswold Archaeology
Oxford Archaeology
North Wessex Downs Landscape Trust
North Wessex Downs National Landscape
Historic England
Anna Dillon the Artist

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

Wonderful to see this beautiful little butterfly in its favoured chalk grassland habitats 👏 @Anna_Dillon and the Astons #naturerecovery project #butterflies

[Anna Dillon @Anna_Dillon]

I am lucky to be part of a local Nature Recovery project in the East of the North Wessex Downs National Landscape, which is a 7 hectar chalk grassland field. Today, I recorded this grizzled skipper, which is our first record. Small changes can enable big wins.
@TonyJuniper

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

Is it a Painted Lady summer? This beautiful butterfly guzzled on the Sweet Williams in my garden today for several minutes. #plantsforpollinators
@UpperThamesBC @Anna_Dillon

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

Two Bryony plants for #wildflowerhour #tiny flowers instead of #tinyplants challenge🤗
Black Bryony (Dioscorea communis) with tiny flowers that in bud look like asparagus tips.
White Bryony (Bryonia dioica) with tiny yellow-green flowers.
@BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour

[Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 @DefenceHQ]

Strap in: Follow one of our paratroopers from @16AirAssltBCT jumping in to Tristan da Cunha – one of the world’s most remote communities – to deliver vital medical support 🪂

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

Ah! I will look out for these on a #ThamesPath walk from Goring to Hartslock through Little Meadow in #Oxfordshire this Sunday. 🙏 @grahammoorby

[the_greenman @grahammoorby]

A first sighting for me, wild service tree flowers, for #wildflowerhour. As always, seen in a #Cambridgeshire woodland.

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

Bessie's Field below Castle Hill @earth_trust Wittenham Clumps looking good for #wildflowerhour this evening
#naturerecovery #oxfordshire @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

@NMoeran isn't this John Nash painting superb...

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

John Nash painted many landscapes around Dorset in the interwar years. He rarely attempted to paint directly from nature, preferring to work in the constant light of his studio from the sketches and watercolours made on the spot. 'Walled Garden, Bredy,' was painted in 1923.

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

Flying in on southerly winds...this Painted Lady butterfly rested in my garden this afternoon...while swifts were calling and cavorting overhead...summer's here!

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

📢 Donate now to help water voles in the chalk streams of the Kennet, Lambourn and Pang rivers. This is an @ARKennet project in @BigGive Earth Raise campaign, ends on 29th! ⏬
https://t.co/2LyYSyUPLQ
📷Water vole via Unsplash

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

@DailyPicTheme2 Sunset falling into #Twilight across the River Thames at Benson, June 2021.
#DailyPictureTheme

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Countryside around Calcot Mill on the Holybrook a channel of the River Kennet 😍 wonderful painting by John Singer Sargent. Calcot water mill was owned by Reading Abbey, hence 'Holy Brook' @ARKennet @readingmuseum

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

In the summer of 1888, John Singer Sargent and his family moved to Calcot Mill near the River Kinnett in the English country of Berkshire. This work bears all the hallmarks of swift painting, there's a freshness in the slightly skewed composition and the brio of the brushwork.

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

@MarkSmyth1960 @BBCSpringwatch 👏👏 brilliant to see your first swift @MarkSmyth1960 thank you for bringing them into our homes every summer! I think Africa is their true home. They fly north to breed because their food is more abundant in northern summertime - just a thought!

[Wendy Tobitt 💙 @12beesbuzzing]

@botany_beck @earth_trust @OxTweets @BSBIbotany Thank you!

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Cowslips in the golden hour this evening, on Castle Hill, Wittenham Clumps @earth_trust
#wildflowerhour @OxTweets @BSBIbotany

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[Thames Path National Trail @ThamesPathNT]

Cuckoo-flower (lady's smock), Common Sedge, Ground ivy (creeping-Charlie) and #Cowslips (Keys of Heaven) for #wildflowerhour from the Thames Path in south Oxfordshire. @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour @OxTweets