It’s spooky season, but let’s not make it scary for wildlife! 🎃👻 Fake web decorations can trap and injure our garden wildlife. Stick to sustainable, indoor decorations and let real spiders do the work outdoors! Share these tips & help spread awareness 👇

A female sparrow-hawk photographed next to our back door. The starling was being chased by the sparrowhawk and collided into the window, so was probably dead before being ripped apart. #wildlifephotography

My lovely cat Polly, no longer with me. This photo was taken in 2007. She was up a larch pole, so she could have a good view of her territory. #catphotos

Everything he's reported to have said in this BBC piece sounds like he's desperately trying to distance himself, knowing that the connection is real and toxic. If the press were investigating Farage with the same enthusiasm they went for Rayner, he'd be done for. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Goldfinches feasting on teasels in our garden. #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #goldfinches #wildlifegarden

A heron at RSPB Conwy having a bad hair day! #birdphotography

Goldfinch showing off all of its splendid gold feathers. #birdphotography #goldfinch #wildlifephotography

Red damselfly resting near our wildlife pond. #damselfly #sheffield #wildlifepond #insect #wildlifephotography

A baby robin on a wire near Beauchief Abbey, Sheffield. #birdonawire #baby-robin #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #Sheffieldwildlife #fledgleling

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Female blackbird eating Rowan berries at Graves Park, Sheffield. #birdphotography #gravesparksheffield #rowanberries #sheffieldwildlife

Parakeets at Graves Park, Sheffield, eating a bounty ash seeds. #parakeets #sheffield #gravespark #birdphotography #wildlifephotography

Dipper on Porter Brook, Forge Dam, Sheffield. #sheffieldwildlife #dipper #birdphotography

Heron scouting Porter Brook, near Forge Dam, Sheffield. #wildlifephotography #ForgedamSheffield #GreyHeron

Such a variety of insect life on our Inula. It’s a lovely flower for our July wildlife garden. #wildlifegarden #wildflowers #insects #pollinators #butterfly

The teasels have loved the sunshine. These are well over 6ft tall. They’re going to be great for pollinators when they flower and then great for the birds when they go to seed. #wildlfegarden #teasels #pollinators

I found this common newt in the bird bath today. I placed it next to the pond, I hope he/she didn’t mind.

Broad-bodied chaser in our garden. I build a small wildlife pond 2 years ago and it’s always a joy to see such a range of wildlife using the pond. #wildlifepond #dragonfly #wildlifephotograpy

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

A dipper doing a bit of dipping at porter brook, near Forge Dam, Sheffield. #birdphotography 🪶 #Sheffieldwildlife

Female red deer up on Blacka Moor, Sheffield. #wildlifephotography #sheffieldwildlifetrust #reddeer #blackamoor

Foxgloves are such an underrated garden flower. They are excellent for pollinators and also a beautiful flower. #wildflowergardens #foxgloves #pollinators

Small tortoiseshell and a dandelion! #butterfly #wildlifephotography #dandelion

Tawny owl in Eccelsall woods, Sheffield this morning. #wildlifephotography #tawnyowl #Sheffield

We’re going to challenge badger culling licences in the courts with @badgertrust.bsky.social! This will cost us time and money, but we won’t stop fighting. Will you help us? Donate to our crowdfunder: www.crowdjustice.com/case/legal-c...

A few nights ago I videoed this badger coming out from underneath our shed! I think it’s using it as a Airbnb! #wildlife-video #badger #wildlife-photography

Ducklings resting up on lily pads in a Graves park pond, Sheffield. #birdphotography 🪶

While you’re waiting for all the other flowers to come out in your new flower bed, the dandelions give some early colour and are great for pollinators. #dandelions

How many people have a badger, going under a shed in their garden!? #wildlifevideo

Wood ants attacking a caterpillar. #wildlifephotography

Chiffchaff singing away, up on Blacka Moor, Sheffield. It might have flown all the way from North Africa to breed in the UK! #birdphotography 🪶

A male mallard showing off to his mates at Ashford by the Water, Derbyshire. #birdphotography 🪶 #mallard

Male mallard posing for the photo at Forge Dam, Sheffield. #wildlife-photography 🪶

Whooper swan at Millhouses park, Sheffield. I anticipate that it will heading back to Iceland soon. #wildlife-photography 🪶 #millhouses-sheffield #sheffieldwildlifetrust

Two parakeets checking out a nesting site in Graves park, Sheffield. #birdphotography

A female red deer, almost blending into the long grass at National Trust Longshaw, near Sheffield. #wildlifephotography

Spring is in the air. A female mandarin duck flying away from the attention of a male. #wildlifephotography 🪶National Trust Longshaw

Wood ants at Longshaw, Sheffield. It looked like they were doing some spring cleaning! #wildlifephotography #woodants #sheffieldwildlifetrust #nationaltrust

Meet Glenn Massacre , nationally appointed Crime Reduction Czar for the driven grouse shooting industry . He thinks it's ok that 134 hen harriers are 'missing' or have been illegally killed since 2018 , most on or close to grouse moors . Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

One of the reasons why shouldn’t tidy your garden during the winter! Goldfinches have been regularly coming into the garden for seeds, in this instance from last year’s Verbena. #WildlifeGardening #birdvideo #goldfinches #birdphotography 🪶

A striking male mandarin duck photographed near Beauchief Abbey, Sheffield. #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #mandarinduck #sheffieldwildlife 🪶

Jackdaws are so overlooked, but close up they’re stunning, especially that eye! #birdphotography corvids 🪶

A goldcrest busily hunting for food around ivy foliage. I find them so difficult to photograph, as they move around so quickly & don’t stay in one place for long! Walking around Sheffield parks and woodlands, I’ve noticed surprisingly, so many goldcrests! #birdphotography #sheffieldwildlifetrust 🪶

A treecreeper checking out the nooks and crannies in a stone wall. #birdphotography #treecreeper #Castleton #peakdistrict #wildlifephotography 🪶 #birds

Some wildlife photos from yesterday’s walk in Graves Park, Sheffield. The coots were having some territorial spades, obviously linked to the breeding season! The mallards were putting on a show on the ice and always great to see a goosander. #wildlifephotography #sheffieldwildlife #goosander 🪶

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A massive vote of thanks to the efforts of British Divers Marine Life Rescue who today freed a Humpback Whale tangled in plastic line in Scotland . Brave (it’s dangerous work) , rapid and effective . Thank you . Please donate here www.justgiving.com/bdmlr

This is why everyone should have a pond in their garden! The starlings having a communal path yesterday. #birdphotography 🪶