SUNDAY 13 MAY: essential conservation tasks for all abilities. Tools are provided. Please wear boots and old clothes. 2 pm to 4 pm. Rain will not deter us!
May Morning Birdsong Walk, Monday 1 May 2018
Meet us at 7 am on the canal bridge at Aristotle Lane for a one-hour guided walk round the Trap Grounds with ornithologist Tom Evans.
Annual General Meeting, Tuesday 6 March 2018
St Margaret’s Institute, Polstead Road,7.30 pm: Join us for a glass of wine and illustrated talks about Trap Grounds wildlife and conservation work.
All of Trap Grounds now a Local Wildlife Site
In March 2015 Oxfordshire County Council officially designated the western half of the Trap Grounds (a mosaic of woodland, ponds, grassland, and scrubland) as a Local Wildlife Site, to complement the LWS status already accorded to the eastern (reedbed) half of the site. The area in question was already protected as a recreational resource by […]
Greetings cards for sale
We have reprinted four of our most popular cards: the Swan, the Primroses, the Pond, and the Damselfly. To see the images and place an order for cards + envelopes, click on ‘Galleries’ (above) and scroll down to ‘Greetings Cards’. All profits support conservation work on the Trap Grounds.
Trap Grounds on Facebook
We now have a Facebook page. Like us at ‘Friends of the Trap Grounds’ to to receive updates and to comment on new postings.
“A magical and peaceful place …”
A participant in the recent Wild Oxfordshire conference wrote afterwards: “Thank you and the ONCF team for organising a really great day. The Trap Grounds have become a magical and peaceful place, combining open access for public recreation with some serious nature conservation, and it has one of the best board-walks I have ever seen. […]
Trap Grounds Greetings Cards
By popular demand we have reprinted two of our original greetings cards, depicting a Swan admiring its own reflection on the Trap Grounds pond, and Primroses flowering in the woodland. Information about the history of the site is printed on the reverse. The cards, with envelopes, cost 75 pence each, or £2.50 for a set […]