Migweek day 2! Nets are open at South Landing and it’s another Redpoll day! Here at the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust living seas centre, South Landing until 12pm.

51000Ha of arable options expire on 31/12 with no alternatives in place. This is habit which loses its economic value to the owner when the bells toll. From @landapp.bsky.social

UK gardens cover c270,000 hectares – more than all the country's National Nature Reserves. And nature-friendly gardens – even small ones – can form a huge network of green spaces that are havens for wildlife. More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/Wil...

It was a pleasure to be invited to the opening of The Outstrays on The #Humber today. A new birding hotspot for the county. Just his summer stone curlew, crane and I’m told glossy ibis.

A 2025 birth and I’d guess at a 2022 or 2023 birth under some felt in the garden today.

Results from a spot of camera trapping in The Highlands @mammalsociety.bsky.social

Never had a depressing stretch like this on a walk before. All roadkill and logged in recordpool @argroupsuk.bsky.social

Mediterranean weather, dolphins from my bedroom, otter, white tailed eagle, pine marten. Rabbie B said it best. My heart’s in the Highlands, good to be home.

Americano, coffee cake and white tailed eagle.

First hummingbird hawk moth seen in the garden this year.

#Ragwort in the garden is worth the pissy comments from neighbours

Revolutionising the Humberhead Levels! Can we balance peatland restoration & agriculture? We're on a mission to find out! 🚜🌱 🔍 Curious about the future of sustainable farming? Discover the breakthroughs: www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/humberhead-levels-restoration-agriculture

Areas where Common Pheasants are released for shooting have significantly more ticks carrying Lyme disease bacteria, according to new research:

#Lindesfarne is like someone took a chunk of The Highlands and dropped it in the sea. Butterflies everywhere on the coastal grassland

Obviously drought and high temps make life tough for any species relying on soft bodied prey which are harder to find in the hot and dry. Recently found a dead hedgehog in my garden so good to catch one mooching around the water tray. @ptes-org.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Scotland could soon make history as the first UK nation to criminalise #ecocide aka severe, reckless harm to nature. In our latest blog, @jodiebettis.bsky.social a Grand Union Scholar at the #OpenUniversity discusses how this bold legal move could set a global precedent:

A rare and elusive spider has been recorded for the first time in London, marking only the fourth confirmed sighting in Britain in the past three decades:

Every flower head is teeming with insects. Pollinators, some phenomenally small everywhere, prey, predators all interacting under our noses when we let them live.

This is what happens when non-native managed pollinators share resources with our wild native pollinators. I’m fed up with those that are #BeeWashing

Monumental day in my #wildgarden. Nearly 7yrs and the first grasshopper. Can’t see the bugger but sounds like common green. Happy to be corrected.Also hoachin with butterflies today, painted lady, sm white, meadow br, ringlet, speck wood, wall. #GardenWild @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

The East Yorkshire wall lizards were spotted at a plant nursery so likely came in with a plant shipment. Will pop down at some point to have a look. @argroupsuk.bsky.social @arc-trust.bsky.social

Interesting, maybe concerning record from East Yorkshire. I believe it has been logged on Record pool and I’m trying to contact the observer. @arc-trust.bsky.social @argroupsuk.bsky.social

I know it's hot, but please don't let your dog swim if you have treated it with a spot-on flea treatment in the last 28 days www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/v...

The government's Crime and Policing Bill is at Report Stage in the House of Commons. Yet scarcely anyone is alert to the implications of Sections 114 & 115, which (as everywhere's close to a place of worship), greatly increase police powers to shut down protest. Please tell MPs and friendly peers.

New paper discussing rare slow worm colour morphs in Norway @argroupsuk.bsky.social @arc-trust.bsky.social www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.ph...

June's #MapOfTheMonth features a map of records from the main recording area at our recent bioblitz at Kilnsey Park: www.neyedc.org.uk/updates-insi... This is just a small subset of the ~1,000 records of over 600 species recorded at the event 👏

The ultra-mega-rare #Alpine Catchfly (Silene suecica) is only found in two sites in Britain! We were absolutely delighted to see it in full flower today while botanising in the #Cairngorms; growing on a very unusual high-altitude serpentine rock rich in magnesium. #mountainflowers #wildflowerhour

Diets should be central to discussions about farming & conservation Our response to the @britishecologicalsociety.org report on regenerative agriculture argues that regen ag is insufficient for nature recovery We also need to take land out of farming thru dietary shifts like reduced meat eating

#Fathersday out in @northyorkmoors.org.uk not surveying. My 1st swimming adder. My lad almost stood on it as it basked on a stepping stone in a burn. Barely thicker than a pencil @arc-trust.bsky.social @argroupsuk.bsky.social

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social] The Yurok tribe of northern California has achieved what once seemed impossible: reclaiming the 19,000-hectare (47,000-acre) watershed of Blue Creek, a cold-water artery vital to salmon survival and tribal identity.

A unified global taxonomy has been published for the first time via the launch of AviList this week, with the British list to be impacted:

Bath Rugby beat Leicester Tigers 23-21 at the Allianz Stadium, Twickenham in the 2024/25 Gallagher Premiership final

#sixonsaturday Rusty and purple foxgloves, yellow loosestrife, Nicotiania grandiflora, night scented stock and birds foot trefoil #gardenwild #garden

Whilst you are out and about this weekend, don’t forget that you can do a Big Meadow Search in churchyards. You never know what you might find.

A huge thanks to the 1500 people who have added their voice to our #SayNoToBerwickBank campaign📢 Please help us reach 2000 by signing up & sharing the campaign. Together, we can ensure that renewable projects support the recovery of our seas. www.seabird.org/conservation...

Youth Development Officer with Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust based in Clapham, North Yorkshire, 35 hpw (part-time considered), permanent position c-js.uk/3HCUlhO

It’s about 7C cooler at the back of my garden thanks to this larch and hawthorn on boundary. Neighbours want them gone, cite our south side will get more sun. It’s 21C in the shade when sitting here. Shade is a good thing in our changing climate.

There are numerous reasons why, for many years, I've been a strong advocate of natural regeneration over planting. Here's just one: chances are those 'native' trees were imported from the EU, like the 1.4 million hawthorns in just the first 7 months of 2024. www.agriland.ie/farming-news...

Survey season is in full swing - our surveyors are working hard - ground truthing for the Ancient Woodland Inventory update as well as surveying new and existing Local Wildlife Sites (and SINCs) across North and East Yorkshire!

Last #nationalreptilesurvey of the summer for @arc-trust.bsky.social and @yorkswildlife.bsky.social No snakes but it’s hot as hell. No finer place to be than a chalk river on a day like today

A few days of rain have reinvigorated everything in the wild garden including the complaints about all of the tiny flies neighbours see over the wildflowers at dusk. They are called #pollinators #Gardenwild @katebradbury.bsky.social

Golden-bloomed Longhorn Beetle attached to my boot @tophilllow.bsky.social today.

“Imagine flattening an irreplaceable grade I listed building like the Royal Albert Hall, replacing it with karaoke machines in various towns & then telling the public this is a ‘win-win’ for architecture & music” - brutally accurate analogy from @ruthtingay.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social