Blog: Nature reserves

Wild Writing by Nicola Chester

A marbled white butterfly perched on a scabious flower by Lucy Colston - runner-up in the teenagers category in the BBOWT Photography Competition 2022.

Where to go in August

With nearly 90 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

Nature reserves

Meadow brown butterflies flutter on a grassy meadow, dark blue summer sky above

Where to go in July

With over 80 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

Where to go in June

With over 80 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

Illustrations of volunteers sat in chairs underneath wild flowers

Ramblings from Finemere Wood

"A young artist joins us for the day to turn his hand to scything. Later, with quiet focus, he captures the spirit of this ancient landscape and those who tend it."

Where to go in May

With nearly 90 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

Two images, one of a woman with a long red implement stuck into the ground, and two men with a large yellow metal implement to install a fencepost.

Ramblings from Finemere Wood

"This elite group of human power tools is banished to the adjoining meadows to dig several three-foot deep holes. A fence is going up, and they are the muscle behind it."

Dead hedge around coppice coupe, built by volunteers

Managing woodland nature reserves with deer in mind

Find out how and why we survey for deer at our woodland reserves

Where to go in April

With nearly 90 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

An aerial view of vibrant green oak sapling emerging from the brown leaf litter.

Ramblings from Finemere Wood

"It never ceases to amaze me how green shoots begin to emerge from the bare earth as we approach warmer, sunnier months. Nature is remarkable in its resilience."