Winners of our Wildlife Friendly Garden Competition 2025 🎉
🐛Most Wildlife Friendly Courtyard/Small Garden - Dave Kelly
🐸Most Wildlife Friendly Garden - Celia Chambers
🦋Most Wildlife Friendly Street - Ashfield Place
🌼Wildlife Champion 2025 - The Jarvis Family of Pool Road
Thanks all who entered!
The turning of the seasons once again 🍂
Why not read the wonderful Otley Nature Notes, written by Keith?
www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk/naturediaryf...
So put on the kettle, and give this a read as the wind picks up and we finally get some much-needed rain.
#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley
🌼Wildlife Friendly Garden Awards 🌼
You're invited!
Come and celebrate the winners of our 2025 Wildlife Friendly Garden awards (coffee & cake provided) 🍰
📍Beech Hill Church, 20-24 Westgate, Otley
⏲Weds, 17th September, 7.30pm
#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley #WildlifeGardening
We were delighted to go pond dipping & minibeast hunting at Gallows Hill with Otley Rainbows 🌈
💧Pond dipping is a fantastic way to see what wonderful life is in the water
#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley #GallowsHillNatureReserve
We loved spending time with Monkey Puzzle Nursery ✨
Everyone was inspired to get out into nature (though don't ask what was happening in the 2nd photo 😂)
Some wildlife-friendly resources & activities for children on our website: www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk/kids-area
#WildlifeFriendlyOtley
Baby Barn Owls practicing flying! 🥰
In a box in Leathley. Thanks to Wildlife Friendly Otley's Barn Owl group for putting up boxes in and around Otley 🙏
You can watch these cuties on the livestream:
www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxgga...
🦉
#Otley #Leathley #BarnOwl
🦇 If you're looking for a fun activity to in summer evenings why not take part in our Sunset Survey? It's the perfect bat survey for beginners and you can do it from your garden, window or local park!
More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/nat...
A dragonfly nymph and a dragonfly 😍
Creating a pond is one of the best things you can do for wildlife 💦
Does anyone know what species this is? 🤔
#Dragonfly #Otley #WildlifeFriendlyOtley
Wooded road with words World Wellbeing Week
Let's take the opportunity to connect with nature this #WorldWellbeingWeek 🦋
🌿 Last Chance to Enter! 🐝🌼
Is your garden, planter, or street buzzing with life? Our Wildlife-Friendly Garden Competition is in its final week!
Email photos to wildlifefriendlyotley@gmail.com by 3 July in order to enter 🐞
#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley
We loved our visit to Little Green Frog nursery 💚
We pretended to be minibeasts & made nature artwork
Thank you! 🐸
#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley
Thank you to everyone who came by our stall yesterday at the Green Fair
We were definitely inspired, and hope you were too 🌿💚
@otleycourthouse.bsky.social
#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley
This #NationalVolunteeringWeek
Thank you to everyone who has given up your time & energy to help make Otley a wildlife-friendly town.
You are so appreciated 🙏
#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley
Free event!
Thurs 12 June, join us for a talk 'Sharing Space; making green corridors through the grey' 🌿
Free sandwiches, tea, coffee, & cake ☕
7.00pm Chippendale Centre
RSPV by email wildlifefriendlyotley@gmail.com
#WildlifeFriendlyOtley
Free event!
This Sunday 8th June, join us for a Wildlife Garden Winners Tour 🌻
Free tea, coffee, & cake 🍰
Meet at Burras Lane tree planting area, 1.30pm
RSVP by email wildlifefriendlyotley@gmail.com
#Otley #WildlifeFriendlyOtley
Photo of a perched swallow, with the text Summer Otley Nature Notes
Read this year's Summer Nature Notes from Otley 🌸
Take a walk through the soft purple haze of Bluebells, muse on memories of summer droughts, soar with Red Kites, & much more.
www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk/naturediaryf...
#Otley #WildlifeFriendlyOtley
We're celebrating #WorldBeeDay 🐝
With more than a quarter of British wild bees in decline, they need a helping hand!
From bee hotels, to pollinator-friendly planting and chemical-free gardening, there's lots we can do to help these gorgeous creatures 💛
#Otley
📢Otley Green Fair📢
Swing by the @otleycourthouse.bsky.social on 7th June to celebrate & get involved with all things green 💚
Including workshops, stalls, food, music & more 🎵
⏲10-4
#Otley #WildlifeFriendlyOtley
Just look at the fantastic meadow patch in Otley All Saints' Church 😍🌼
Churchyards can be such important hotspots for nature 💛
#Otley #WildlifeFriendlyOtley
Huge thanks to students, parents, & teachers who joined us a few weeks ago. We:
🦔Made sure the hedgehog & bug houses were extra cosy
🕳Dug out more of the old, clogged up pond to turn it into a wildlife-rich ephemeral pond
🐞Went on some wildlife hunts
💦Created a new, mini pond
& more! #Otley
We need to talk about.... pesticides & herbicides in #Otley
Not only are they causing the loss of our bees, insects, birds, & other wildlife, but research has found they can also be extremely harmful to human health too ❌
There are safe alternatives www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk/gardens
🦔Hedgehog Awareness Week🦔
Maybe you can take inspiration from the wonderful pupils, parents, & teachers at Pool C of E School and make a hedgehog home? 🏠
💚 Support your local hedgehog rescue Prickly Pigs
#Otley #HedgehogAwarenessWeek
It's May, and that means that you can enter our Wildlife Friendly Gardening competition! 🎉🌼🐞
There's lots of categories, you don't even need to have a garden
Show us your photos on social media with #otleywildlifegarden or email wildlifefriendlyotley@gmail.com
Good luck 🍀
#Otley
Evening hedgerow walk - mushi yoku. Wandering, watching, wondering....
It's International Dawn Chorus Day! 🎶
Time to get up early and listen to the melodies!
#Otley #DawnChorus
Did u know?When planning a wildlife friendly garden,it's easy to forget to look up,as well as down at no-mow meadows & borders etc. To provide extra pollinator food & habitats for nesting birds, plant easy to grow Montana clematises.They're low maintenance & loved by so many small souls. 🌿🌱🌱🇬🇧🌍🪲🐦⬛
Take part in @theriverstrust.bsky.social #BigRiverWatch
An easy way to collect info on the health of the #RiverWharfe
Just download the app & spend 15 mins enjoying the sunshine down by the river 💦
More info 👇
theriverstrust.org/take-action/...
Picture of cotton grass with words I was honoured to plant the last cotton grass, 24,000th
Close up photo of otter with words seen one catch a 10 pound salmon
Photo of a toad with words toad patrol, more than 1700 saved this year
photo of blossom, with words nature diary from otley
Sunday reading inspo?
Read this wonderful Spring Nature diary, with Keith's encounters with nature in #Otley 🌸
There's toads, cotton grass planting, mealtimes with otters - and much more!
Read here 👉www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk/naturediaryfromotley
This Red Admiral wishes you a happy Thursday
(especially if you have ivy in your garden or nearby)
💕
Happy #EarthDay 🌎
Wildlife Friendly Otley have lots of inspiring events & activities to lend nature a helping hand 🤝
Find out more on our website:https://www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk/
#Otley