Blue sky, clear water, and fascinating facts - our new video gives a glimpse of Malham Beck! 💧 For several years now, Jonathan Grey (our Research & Conservation Officer) has been working to improve the health of this river, in partnership with @yorkswildlife.bsky.social.
A stroll in YWT Chafer wood today.
The bird song was beautiful, such as multiple Blackcap 💚
Our first Lord & Ladies (or whatever alternative name you use!) of the year.
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A small brown sea slug in a petri dish alongside some green seaweed. Hard to see by the naked eye the sea slug has small green spots from the chloroplasts it extracts from algae.
Two specimens of E. viridis in a petri dish
What's cooler than a sea slug? A SOLAR POWERED SEA SLUG!!!
Elysia viridis are kleptoplasts, retaining chloroplasts from the algae they consume and using them for photosynthesis.
These two specimens were found in the rockpools at Filey, on a shore search survey with @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
I think we're about at peak bluebell in this part of South Yorkshire at the moment.
A great time for a walk in the woods, perhaps @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Sprotbrough Flash or Hetchell Wood would be worth a visit this weekend
Some from #Spurnbirds today.
The 2 drake garganey, whimbrel, wheatear & 💯 s of Brent geese.
Also common ringed plovers, dunlin, avocets, curlew, oystercatcher, swallows, sand martin and a barn owl. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
Nature is flipping awesome!
A Sycamore sapling growing out of a crack next to the @yorkswildlife.bsky.social office, in York.
St George's Mushroom popping up in grassland
Group of St George's Mushroom with view of stem and gills
A few patches of St George's Mushroom today. They were in fields that were arable until about 20 years ago, so it must be a reasonably good coloniser (as some grassland species are almost exclusively associated with very old grassland).
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This hare took a while to spot us at YWT Skerne yesterday.
I love the stop when it did!😂
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Filey Dams yesterday @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
🦋 When nature loses diversity, we all lose.
Some butterflies are coping better than others, but our State of Yorkshire’s Nature evidence is clear: rare and specialist species are most at risk.
Protecting diverse habitats is the key to a nature‑rich Yorkshire.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75kk7p41npo
Hear from our CEO, Rachael Bice, on why we need to do more to ensure nature thrives in Yorkshire.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
Bird feeding guidance graphic
Changes in how and when we feed garden birds can have a big impact on their health. Following the latest advice from
@rspb.bsky.social helps keep birds safe from disease while still enjoying the joy of nature on your doorstep. 🐦🚨
www.ywt.org.uk/blog/thewildlifetrusts/feeding-garden-birds-safely
Great visit to SSI-protected Askham Bog today with professor Sir John Lawton, @yorkswildlife.bsky.social President, here admiring a ~300 year old Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis - on the right what it looks like in summer). Thanks to #YorkCivicTrust
This was only the second record of a blue-winged teal at Potteric Carr, so a super exciting sighting!
A European robin redbreast perches on a lichen-covered branch and sings with its beak wide open.
Robin singing at North Cave. #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @northcavewet.bsky.social @northcavebirds.bsky.social
53 Species from North Cave, inc. 6xMed Gulls, 2xLittle Ringed Plover and c17 Avocet.
Fingers crossed the LRPs have a successful year ❤️ 🤞
#birds #birding #birdsSeenin2026 🪶
#wildlife #photography #naturephotography
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Flyer for Woodland Trust event "Woodland creation and waders" showing an upland stream in the Yorkshire Dales
Join the Woodland Trust on 14/04 for a guided walk and introduction to the approaches of retaining and enhancing habitat for ground nesting birds alongside woodland creation.
Booking essential: bit.ly/WoodlandCrea...
#GroundNestFest #GreatNorthBog @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
A wetland channel at Askham Bog filled with delicate pale‑purple water violet flowers rising above green aquatic vegetation, bordered by tall reeds and framed by leafy trees in the background.
Askham Bog - hailed by Sir David Attenborough as a ‘treasure’ - featured on Calendar News last night with our team and volunteers who champion this rare and vital habitat.
www.itv.com/watch/news/yorks-askham-bog-hailed-as-a-treasure-by-sir-david-attenborough-fears-for-future/wxxwpfr
📷 Kirsty Brown
@iucn-uk-peat.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
Two people wearing waterproof outdoor clothing are working on a slope of bare peat in an upland landscape. One person is bending down to install equipment in the exposed peat, while the other stands nearby holding materials. Several plastic pipes and coloured markers are laid out across the dark peat surface. The surrounding area is covered with rough, grassy vegetation and rolling moorland.
@yorkshirepeat.bsky.social is trialling a new technique to address patches of steep bare peat, known as hags, using sheep fleece. Hags are tricky to restore as it's difficult to establish any vegetation to stabilise the peat.
Find out more on the YPP blog: yppartnership.org.uk/blog
#GreatNorthBog
🏉An amateur #rugby club in one of Hull's most deprived areas that turned some of their land into an urban nature reserve has proved a big hit with local people. @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
🌐Find out more: www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-ea...
an underwater shot of a plastic bag in the ocean with text overlay that reads River to reef. EVERY ACTION INLAND HAS AN IMPACT ON THE SEA.
From the hills and moorlands to the North Sea, what happens in our rivers doesn't stay there. 🌊
Today we proudly launch Rivers to Reef, a landmark new initiative to protect Yorkshire's waterways from source to sea.
Read more: www.ywt.org.uk/news
Watch the video: www.instagram.com/p/DWQoX3GiAoY/
Equinox energy has arrived in Yorkshire! 🌓
Today feels a bit like nature hitting reset. So if you can, step outside for five quiet minutes. Breathe. Notice what’s stirring.
Chasing a sunset tonight? Yorkshire’s coast does it best! 🌅
#springequinox #firstdayofspring #internationaldayofhappiness
Looking across a small lake. Dense trees at the back and a few bare branches in foreground. Lovely blue sky.
The stars aligned and I was able to go for a long lunchtime walk to Adel Dam and Golden Acre Park. Beautiful spring weather. 36 bird species and a surprise bat over water (Daubenton’s?). My first chiffchaffing heard this year and first little egret seen. @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
Skerne wetlands today.
It’s so good to see the willows greening up. Brimstone & Peacock were FOTY for us.
Also it’s the first time we’ve seen golden plover here.
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Spurn area yesterday.
FOTY Avocets at Kilnsea.
So many Brent geese!
Whooper (presumably a pit stop on their journey back to Iceland?)
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Lots of Mire Mourner sawflies (Dolerus madidus) in a rushy meadow at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve today. Males with abdomen orange-banded; females with orange more extensive, over the thorax as well. Things really starting to liven up now. 😃 @ynuorg.bsky.social #symphyta #sawflies
Early dog violets at Potteric Carr today.
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ICYMI, our annual report (detailing the 24/25 restoration season) is available. Together with our partners, funders and landowners and managers, we've brought almost 52,000 hectares of the #GreatNorthBog under restoration management since 2009:
www.yppartnership.org.uk/sites/defaul...
