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Dr Judy Webb BEM
Judy at Rock Edge LNR, Headington, photo by Tony Gillie
Following time spent as a teacher of Biology (she has written a short history of Milham Ford School, Oxford), Judy was involved for 9 years in forensic environmental trace evidence surveys.
A founder member of the New Marston Wildlife Group (now Friends of Milham Ford Nature Park), she is now an enthusiastic Oxford freelance ecologist and species recorder. Her special interest is in rare wetland plants, as well as flies and bees, although her interests also extend to other insects and fungi. Her special areas of expertise are pollen identification, pollinators, field mycology, vascular plants, bryophytes, flies (Diptera), meadows, especially floodplain meadows, calcareous grassland, meadow restoration, fens, fen restoration and peatlands generally. Wildlife sites that Judy is involved with:
Work involving other sites: a few items from 2021 - 2022 
A Polish woodpecker, in action like you've probably never seen before. Video tweeted by Rory Bellows.
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Friends of Raleigh Park at work 20 01 2024
20 January 2024 Judy posted on 'X':
Out in freezing conditions with great volunteers from the Friends of Raleigh Park working in the fen today. Thanks again to our Freshwater Habitats Trust Volunteers, who worked hard scything and then raking and dragging the cut material off the fen. Also sowed Purple and Yellow Loosestrife and Blunt-Flowered Rush seed from the Lye Valley. Cutting and moving material off to ensure greater biodiversity in this rare calcareous alkaline spring/seepage fen this summer. Hard work with frozen down hay! Thanks to all! Judy's photos are HERE Hinksey Meadow
'Public inquiry to be held into divisive flood plans' Oxford Mail, 12 June 2023 Related article also published in Oxford Times, 16 June 2023 Floodplain Meadows Partnership Conference 24 and 25 May 2023 
For photos and info, go to
Oxford Floodplain Meadows Plant Atlas 2020: Mapping changes in the Distribution of the British and Irish Flora published by The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland https://plantatlas2020.org/ 
8 March 2023 was the launch day for Plant Atlas 2020. Judy tweeted: 'This is a great achievement. Some of my plant records are in it somewhere, along with the records of many other volunteer recorders'. (Over 3,000 volunteers have been submitting records since the 1960s.)
One of the most startling findings of Plant Atlas 2020 is that just under half (49%) of all plant species analysed are estimated to have declined in range in Britain since the 1950s, whereas only a fifth (20%) have increased (Chap. 6, p.11). There are now more non-native plants in the wild than native ones A Summary of the Results of Plant Atlas 2020: Britain’s Changing Flora (pdf) is available to download from the BSBI website. |
In the 2021 New Year's Honours List Judy was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for 'Services to Conservation of Wildlife and Habitats in Oxfordshire' - see More about Judy
Submissions by Judy to Oxford City Council & Oxfordshire County Council re Consultations and Planning Applications
See separate page for Northern Gateway Area Action Plan Oxfordshire Local Plan 2050 Judy's response 5 Oct 2021 and additional comment 8 Oct 2021 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust's Wild Oxford Project
Judy was one of the speakers at a BBOWT event at the University of Oxford's Museum of Natural History on 26 Sept 2018, held to show progress with the Wild Oxford project over its first five years (2013 to 2018). She was the ecology advisor and was contracted to prepare yearly surveys and reports for each of the four sites involved - Lye Valley, Chilswell Valley, Rivermead Nature Park and Raleigh Park. At the bottom of this BBOWT website page, under Read the Wild Oxford project reports, there are links to all Judy's reports on Chilswell Valley, Raleigh Park, Rivermead Nature Park and Lye Valley. When the fundamental work to improve those sites was completed, BBOWT took over the monitoring, but Judy still provides yearly advice on management plans. In addition, she joins in the volunteering work on each of those sites. 
She appears in a short video filmed in Rivermead Nature Park in August 2019 by BBOWT about the project, seen first wearing a white hat (as in photo above), busy with orange-rimmed net, and later explaining her involvement in the project.
Andy Gunn, BBOWT’s Community Wildlife Manager (Oxfordshire) and Wild Oxford Project Officer, as well as Carl Whitehead*, Parks Ranger and Coordinator of Volunteers for Oxford City Council, whom Judy worked with volunteering on Wild Oxford sites and other parks and wildlife sites in Oxford, are among others who feature in ithe video. *Since August 2022 Carl has been Park Ranger for Witney Town Council with particular involvement in the Lake and Country Park. Judy appears in a short video filmed in Rivermead Nature Park in August 2019 by BBOWT about their Wild Oxford Project. She's seen first wearing a white hat (as in photo on right), busy with orange-rimmed net, and later explaining her involvement in the project. Andy Gunn, BBOWT’s Community Wildlife Manager (Oxfordshire) and Wild Oxford Project Officer, as well as Carl Whitehead*, Parks Ranger and Coordinator of Volunteers for Oxford City Council, whom Judy worked with volunteering on Wild Oxford sites and other parks and wildlife sites in Oxford, are among others who feature in it. *Since August 2022 Carl has been Park Ranger for Witney Town Council with particular involvement in the Lake and Country Park. In the video Judy explains the two different aspects of her work for the Wild Oxford Project: contracted work to give ecological advice and provide yearly reports on the sites and the species they support, and secondly, doing voluntary work with various groups on the sites.The photo, taken from from the the second part of that video, which automatically plays after the first, shows Judy (white hat) talking to other volunteers at Rivermead Nature Park. |
