Dozens of male Broad-bodied Chaser dragonflies on the Thames Path today near the River of Life II wetlands. This one visited by a Common blue damselfly. There were dozens of them too. @BDSdragonflies

The Kennet and Avon Canal in Wiltshire today, with Woodborough Hill and Picked Hill to the North

A piece about the beauty of wood engraving, the disappearing countryside and why certain books continue to follow us through life. #agnesmillerparker #WOMENARTISTS #HEBates #favouritebooks stillsketching.substack.com/…

Summer sounds and scents today on the Thames Path with Reed Warblers and Lady's Bedstraw. Sound up... @BSBIbotany @Anna_Dillon @m8mav

Damselfly devouring a moth today. Can anyone id which damselfly this is please, and maybe the moth too? Photo taken nr the River Thames at Radcot while listening to the songs of reed warblers, curlew and cuckoo - idyllic! @UpperThamesBC @Anna_Dillon

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

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

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

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

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

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 🪂

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

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

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!

📢 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! ⏬ donate.biggive.org/campaign/… 📷Water vole via Unsplash

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

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

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

No April Fool - Benson weir is open again today after a complete overhaul. There's a brand new footbridge and we've built a safety pass for eels and fish. 🗞️ The BBC covered it here: bbc.in/4t3Egot.