Rural Oxfordshire

[CharlesT]

The wildlife comes later.
First an idyllic scene by the River Evenlode, but if you zoom in to the dead tree in the distance there is a Buzzard perched on the highest branch and a Little Egret with its back to the camera on a lower branch to the right. A long way off but they were clearly identifiable through the bins.

On the way back home alongside a rare sight these days, a wildflower meadow, full of butterflies.

A Marbled White on Clover

Pair of Six Spot Burnets on Scabious

[Sgurr]

We knew someone who lived in Fawler for a while and had great problems when the Evenlode flooded, having looked up the site on the Environment Agency's web-site before purchase and learned that the likelihood of flooding was one in a thousand years (global warming).

[CharlesT]

We knew someone who lived in Fawler for a while and had great problems when the Evenlode flooded, having looked up the site on the Environment Agency's web-site before purchase and learned that the likelihood of flooding was one in a thousand years (global warming).

The Evenlode floods quite regularly in my experience, but not in a troublesome way generally. There are extensive flood meadows on both sides and the paths disappear. Most of Fawler looks to be on higher ground, so your resident was unlucky. Last winter it was in flood for months.