RadleyLakesTrust

Tranquil Oxfordshire wetlands and their amazing wildlife. Becoming a Friend is free, please see our website! Kingfisher image by Mark Chivers.

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There is still time to nab tickets for the #radleylakestrust Quiz Night!

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📢 Date for your Diary 📢

Join us for the annual RLT Quiz! All proceeds go to preserving #radleylakes

#quiz #quiztime #fundraiser #communityevent #getinvolved #abingdon #oxfordshire

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Huge thanks to those who took the time to join our working party at Thrupp Lake yesterday 🥳
The team cleared leaves and debris from the new path and restaked the parking area hedge. Doesn't it look great?

#conservationvolunteers #radleylakes #abingdon #oxfordshirewildlife

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Huge thanks to Ian Elkins for leading a super interesting bird watching walk on Saturday! Despite the weather we saw Gadwalls, Black headed gulls, Cormorants, long tailed tits, Coots, Moorhens, Shovelers, mallards and swans.
#birdwatchers #birdwatching
#abingdon #oxfordshire

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Stunning snaps from @MadameFlora of a sunny #radleylakes from just two days ago! ☀️
#autumn #autumnsunshine #oxfordshire #abingdon #oxfordshirewildlife

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Join us for a bird walk around Thrupp Lake on Saturday 23rd November.
The walk will last 1 to 1.5 hours depending on bird activity and the weather. Bring binoculars!
Email [email protected] to reserve your place.
📸 @RhoRhoPhotos

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Speechless at these exquisite images from @outsidermanda 's run this morning. One of the positives about the nights drawing in is a sunrise you don't have to get up at 4 am to see!

#running #sunrise #radleylakestrust #sunrisephotography #oxfordshire #abingdon

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Yesterday was #worldfungusday ! Celebrating the wonder of fungi 🍄

Huge thanks to @MadameFlora for sharing these fascinating and varied fungi during her runs at #radleylakes

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Huge thanks to the volunteers who helped scythe at Thrupp Green on Saturday! We had a perfect day for our first session of the autumn. Lapwing nest here and need the tall vegetation to be cleared so that they can view approaching predators. 
📸 David Guyoncourt /@RhoRhoPhotos

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Join us on Saturday for our Annual Forum! Meet our Trustees, enjoy drinks and nibbles AND hear about the achievements and activities of RLT this year. Email [email protected] to confirm

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Please join us for the #radleylakestrust annual forum!

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...the female then hovers over the water, dipping the tip of her abdomen into drop her eggs on to vegetation below the surface

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Thanks to @LoganWalker75 for this remarkable capture of a four spotted chaser dragonfly.

According to the Wildlife Trust, four-spotted chasers spend a lot of time over water for insect-prey or to mark out their territories. They mate on the wing....

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Throwback to sunnier days 🌞
Lovely pictures from @RhoRhoPhotos of dragonflies enjoying Thrupp Lake ( pic 2 is a female common skimmer) and a majestic swallow at Barton Fields
#summer #abingdon #wildlife #nature #dragonflies #swallow

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Well done and thank you to our team of hard working volunteers 👏 who have started removing excess gravel from the new footpath. We hope this will make the surface firmer and easier to walk on and manoeuvre buggies and wheelchairs. More work to continue this week and next.

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Pyramidal orchid spotted near #radleylakes! A reminder that we are technically in summer...

#orchid #orchids #wildflowers #wildflowerphotography #nature #wildlife #oxfordshire #abingdon

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Last weekend we were enjoying the sunshine at Thrupp Lake, as well as the wonderful music of ACCord, Abingdon Community Choir, at our Lakes and cakes event!

#radleylakes #radleylakestrust #abingdon #nature #naturelovers #conservation #conservationeducation

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TOMORROW! We are so excited to welcome you to Thrupp Lake for our favourite event of the year. We are gathering all the yummy cakes and putting the final touches on the activities.

Entry is FREE and the forecast is for ☀️☀️☀️

Please cycle or walk if you can.

See you tomorrow!

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Come and join us on Sunday 2nd June from 2 pm! Including nature activities, live music and of course lots of tea and cake.
Please walk or cycle where you can.
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A special coot moment captured (from a distance) by @LoganWalker75

#coots #coot #cootchicks #radleylakes #abingdon #oxfordshire #oxfordshirewildlife #nature #naturelovers #wildbirds #wildbirdphotography