Lower Windrush Valley Project

We work across the Lower Windrush Valley to:
• Strengthen the evolving landscape
• Protect and enhance biodiversity
• Improve access to the countryside

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

We’ve had another successful year for the nest boxes along the Windrush Path in Standlake with 80 young ringed from 10 boxes.
The highlights were our first Robin chicks and an unusual nest box hosting both Great tit and Blue tit chicks!
#lowerwindrushvalley #windrushpath

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

Two community ‘Pollinator Patches’ created at Northmoor and Standlake village halls last year are beginning to bloom and provide a nectar-rich resource for bees and other pollinators.

@TOE_oxon

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

We also found some otter spraint underneath the north hide, good to know they’re in the area!

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

We had a busy morning yesterday with our volunteers at Standlake Common Nature Reserve clearing vegetation around the hides to allow users better sight lines, and sorting out vegetation overhanging the northern shore access track.

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

Visitors to Tar Lakes may have noticed a new permissive footpath opened last week which can be accessed from a bridge to the east of Tar Lakes. The path takes you south along the inside of Cogges Lane, through a newly seeded meadow and Linear Fisheries' Tar Farm fishery.

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

It’s #NationalMeadowsDay!
Sites like Ducklington Mead and Langley’s Lane Meadow in the Lower Windrush Valley support a huge range of wildlife, as well as providing benefits such as carbon storage, flood prevention and pollinator habitat.

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

There's still time to apply for our LWVP Project Officer role.
We're looking for somebody with relevant experience in the environmental sector and the ability to work independently.
Deadline: Sunday 29th May
https://t.co/qEc1TvvKbJ

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

Job opportunity!

Fancy making the Lower Windrush Valley your workplace? We are recruiting for a fixed term Project Officer post until May 2023.

Further details available here: https://t.co/qEc1TvvKbJ

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

Great afternoon yesterday checking nest boxes and ringing with @RachelCrookes. A total of 81 blue tit and great tits ringed from the 17 boxes checked in Standlake.
#BTO #WindrushPath #LowerWindrushValleyProject

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

Job opportunity!

Fancy making the Lower Windrush Valley your workplace? We are recruiting for a fixed term Project Officer post until May 2023.

Further details available here: https://t.co/qEc1TvvKbJ

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

Langley's Lane SSSI meadow full of cowslips and green-winged orchids today.
#lowerwindrushvalley #standlakecommon #floodplainmeadow

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

A walk around the Gill Mill circular today marks the end of a very successful Windrush Walks Week.
Thank you to the walk leaders, volunteers and participants for joining us to celebrate twenty years of the Lower Windrush Valley Project. Here’s to the next twenty! #windrushwalks

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

Thank you to James Florey, @northmoormeatco, and Anne Cotton, @NaturalEngland, for guiding a visit to James’ farm this morning looking at their environmental stewardship options and a meadow restoration project. #windrushwalks

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

Another sunny day for our third event this week – a walk from Stanton Harcourt looking at geology of the Lower Windrush and visit to the Devil’s Quoits stone circle.
#windrushwalks

[Mike Buckle @mikebuckle50]

A beautiful end to Tuesday's enjoyable #windrushwallks bird identification walk. Thankyou @LowerWindrushVP and @birds_magic

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

Thank you to @Lucy_Stoddart for leading our water vole walk along the Windrush today.
There were plenty of field signs including water vole latrines, burrows and feeding stations, as well as otter spraint and a glimpse of a Kingfisher.

#windrushwalks

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

Beautiful sunny start to Windrush Walks Week today with our bird identification walk.
There are still some spaces available for other events this week – https://t.co/jJ6QW2jXTw

@birds_magic

#windrushwalks

[Sewage Free Thames @cleansafethames]

WE DID IT!!!
Wolvercote Mill Stream in Oxford will become the UK's 2nd designated river swimming site! 🥳
We will get regular water quality testing from this May, and @thameswater @EnvAgency and @OxfordCity must work together to make the water fit to swim in.
Time to celebrate!

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

Join us on 24th April for a 5 mile circular walk starting at Rushy Common. We'll see the Windrush Path, Ducklington Mead SSSI, views of Gill Mill quarry and sites restored after minerals extraction for wildlife and public access.

Booking: https://t.co/4tRl0WjzKV

#windrushwalks

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

‘Farming and wildlife in the LWV’: 22nd April

Join us for a walk through Northmoor’s riverside meadows looking at @northmoormeatco's grass margins, hedgerow management, wading bird scrapes and meadow restoration projects.

Book here: https://t.co/WbdA3Q69R0

#windrushwalks

[Lower Windrush Valley Project @LowerWindrushVP]

There are still spaces left for our bat walk on 23rd April!
You’ll learn how to use a bat detector to listen out for bats and identify different species as we walk around the lakes.

Book here: https://t.co/g7eaaTShb2

Windrush Walks Week: https://t.co/ZH9NGVpT4v

#windrushwalks