@support.bsky.team we notice you now have to age verify to access messages. How do we do this as an organisation please?

A glimpse into dragonfly lifecycle today @northcavewet.bsky.social 🐉Scars on willow bark, sites where Willow Emerald Damselfly eggs were laid and overwintered. Larvae then hatched and dropped into the water below. Elsewhere: Bittern & Bullfinches @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

They know Robin Fest is coming! www.ywt.org.uk/robin-festival

🐦 Our BBS volunteers are the eyes and ears of Yorkshire’s wild places, helping protect species and shape decisions. ✨ Love early mornings, fresh air and wildlife? 👉 Read Sara’s blog and join the team. www.ywt.org.uk/blog/sara/behind-binoculars-breeding-bird-surveyor-team #WildlifeConservationDay

Donate the value of a simple swap this #GivingTuesday and help us create a wilder Yorkshire! 💚 What will you be doing? Share your swaps with us on our socials.

@yorkshirepeat.bsky.social is highlighting the lack of Government action on the horticultural peat ban despite overwhelming support. Please sign the @peatfree.bsky.social petition, write to your MP & go #PeatFree in your own garden. www.yppartnership.org.uk/blog/lyndon-marquis/bogs-not-bags

As temperatures plummet and the rest of us wrap up warm, spare a thought for your garden wildlife. Read our blog for actions you can take for nature as we prepare for winter. 💙 www.ywt.org.uk/blog/preparing-your-garden-wildlife-winter #wildlifegardening #winterwildlife

Red kite flying over North Cave Wetlands. #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @northcavewet.bsky.social @northcavebirds.bsky.social

Help garden wildlife by keeping autumn leaves www.wildway.info/p/importance...

Robin at Staveley Nature Reserve. #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Nature is under threat - add your voice NOW! The UK Gov has rejected vital chalk stream protections - a huge step backwards. Using wildlife as a scapegoat won’t fix housing delays. 💚Email your MP today and speak up for nature: action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/... #ActForNature #PlanningBill

Brilliant to see the starling murmuration at North Cave this afternoon before the rain came. Plenty if wildfowl and winter thrushes around too @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @northcavewet.bsky.social @northcavebirds.bsky.social

Leaf it be! 🍂 Learn more on the importance of leaf litter for your garden wildlife this winter. www.ywt.org.uk/blog/leaf-it-be

You are standing within a ride or glade surrounded by quiet woodland. Suddenly, a movement in the sky, a silhouette overhead emitting a grunting call. Our latest blog takes you behind the scenes as we survey the shy woodcock: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/surveying-elusive-woodcock

On the 15th November, the Derwent Hunt once again trespassed into our Chafer Wood nature reserve near Ebberston. We are absolutely outraged at their audacity and disrespect. If you have evidence of the hunt or hounds accessing YWT land, please send to [email protected] Read our full statement below.

Ripon Wetland Starling Mumuration Must have been about 10k starlings coming in yesterday evening on a beautiful sunset from about 15:30 for at least 45 mins @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @ukstarlings.bsky.social

Sunset across the Humber from Paull Holme Strays #Sunset #Humber #PaullHolmeStrays #Holderness #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Witness the magic of a staring murmuration! Check out our page to discover more and advice on where to see them: www.ywt.org.uk/starling-murmurations

One of 5 Bullfinches seen at Ripon City Wetlands yesterday morning @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Gorgeous scenes from Paull Holme Strays. 🌅

We are deeply disappointed by the vote rejecting vital Planning and Infrastructure Bill amendments. Nature cannot afford compromises—we’ll keep fighting. Add your voice: action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/... #NatureRecovery #PlanningBill @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

✨ Surveying peatlands often reveals something magical! These surveys help us understand their condition and guide vital restoration work. What’s the most magical thing you’ve spotted on a bog walk? 📷 Joe Carter

A few places are still available at this Saturday's Soldierfly training course with the excellent Derek Whitley at YWT's Potteric Carr Nature Reserve. This is a joint event with @ynuorg.bsky.social and @yorkswildlife.bsky.social, follow the link to book

Embrace the dark skies this season as the stars light up the night sky, be sure to look and listen for wonderful wildlife. 🌠🦉 www.ywt.org.uk/blog/dark-skies-autumn #wildlifeWenesday #winterwildlife

It’s the season to blend our single (-celled) bodies into the communal slime while we reproduce. If that’s not weird enough, let’s look like Dog Sick too! 🤣 Didymium spongiosum (Dog Sick Slime Mould) doing its amazing stuff @northcavewet.bsky.social. Elsewhere: Bittern @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Male migrant hawker, amongst the last of the class of 2025 @northcavewet.bsky.social today. Elsewhere: redwings, stonechat. @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

All that glisters - This tiny silver birch really caught my eye @yorkswildlife.bsky.social North Cliffe Woods, East Yorkshire #outdoorphotography #woodlandphotography #landscapephotography #landscape_lover #woodland #autumn #gold

My first Snow Flea (Boreus hyemalis) of the winter at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve today. Nice of her to pose out in the open on a fallen leaf, so didn't need to spend hours waiting for one to emerge from the Polytrichum moss! @ynuorg.bsky.social #Mecoptera #Boreidae #ukwildlife

I was up in Wensleydale today, so called in at a @yorkswildlife.bsky.social nature reserve I've not been to before, Leyburn Old Glebe. It's best known for its flowers, but actually had a few waxcaps today. Enough to encourage someone to go back next year (I'm not close enough).

Enjoyable day despite the foggy start in the @yorkbirding.bsky.social trip to Staveley and Ripon City Wetlands, two super @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserves. Four Whooper Swans dropped in for a rest at Staveley, with Otter, two Great Egrets, heard Bearded Tits and 100k Starlings into roost at RCW.

Lots of Earwig activity at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve today, with individuals burrowing into the sandy turf, leaving just the formidable pincers exposed. Common enough, but actually rather extraordinary things. @ynuorg.bsky.social #ukwildlife

Fab outing with @yorkbirding.bsky.social to @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Staveley and Ripon wetlands produced at least 54 Spieces Whooper swan Goldeneye Tufted Wigeon Shoveler Teal Gadwall Cormorant BH,LBB,C,H Gull Pink-footed R kite Buz Kes SPHawk GW+L Egret Stonechat 10s of thousands of Starlings

📺 Join us on YouTube at 7pm tonight, where we’re giving you an exclusive first look at the beautifully restored #AskhamBog pond. This stunning transformation is ready to welcome a rich variety of wildlife back — and we can’t wait to share the journey with you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi8aqxi_r5A

The hidden life on rocks and trees: why lichens might be Yorkshire’s most underrated superorganisms! 💚 www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/lichen-natures-quiet-collaborators

We were delighted to welcome @katiewhitemp.bsky.social MP for Leeds North West & UK’s Minister for Climate to our newest nature reserve Park Gill yesterday. It was a pleasure to share the vision behind this special site and discuss the importance of restoring Yorkshire’s rare temperate rainforests.

Seven-spot ladybird on an autumn beech leaf in Grass Wood. Here's my blog about this lovely nature reserve in the Yorkshire Dales: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/rod-jon... #ThePhotoHour #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @yorkshiredales.org.uk

Suzannah joined YWT as a Trustee in autumn 2024, bringing a wealth of experience & enthusiasm. In this inspiring read she reflects back over an exciting & challenging year, sharing hopes for the future: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/building-wilder-future-trustees-view #TrusteesWeek

"I find it next to a woodland path – the remains of a dead tree forming a mossy arch. It’s giving off a strong, mushroomy smell – and it’s absolutely covered in fungi." Read @rodshelf.bsky.social's blog on glorious Grass Wood! 🍄 ywt.org.uk/blog/rod-jones/autumn-treasures-searching-fungi-grass-wood

Paths through North Cliffe Wood @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Lone Oak on the Went valley side Brockadale @yorkswildlife.bsky.social November 1st 2025 #Autumn #Photography

Sprotbrough flash October 2025 sightings 👇 www.wildlifeandtravel.com/post/sprotbr... #Birds #Wildlife #Yorkshire @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

It’s #TrusteesWeek a time to celebrate the amazing contribution made by our wonderful trustees. Our trustees play a vital role for the Trust bringing experience, knowledge and imagination. The time and energy they dedicate to driving us forward, is hugely appreciated! 👏

If ever there was a reserve to encapsulate the colour of autumn, that reserve would be Hetchell Wood. 🍂 Discover more in our blog: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/autumn-wander-around-hetchell-wood

Spiders. 🕷️ One of our most divisive and maligned groups of wildlife. At worst they’re hated, at best they’re often overlooked. This, along with the difficulty of identifying many, has also led to them being under-recorded. We want to change perceptions of spiders this #Halloween!

We take them for granted but this Mallard was looking resplendent in his fresh new plumage this morning at Ripon City Wetlands @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Lovely blog post from one of the participants on @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social’s Peatland Restoration Practitioners course: yppartnership.org.uk/blog/evie-melody/peatland-restoration-practitioner 1/2

🔔 Nature is at risk, but your voice can help. The Planning Bill is nearly law. An amendment passed by the Lords yesterday offers vital protection - but it needs MP support to stay in. 📢 Tell your MP: please back Amendment 130. wtru.st/49ch28z

YWT Skerne today @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

If you're in Bradford on 28/10, join us to find out about #peatlands & the #GreatNorthBog at #Bradford2025 Science Festival: www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/bra... Our @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Marine colleagues will be there too to tell you about seagrass. #ForScience!!!

Calling all @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social @ynuorg.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social members, there is a great indoor workshop on soliderflies coming up soon. I'll be there, and hope to see you too! www.ywt.org.uk/events/2025-... Or DM me for details @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social