Whooper Swans foraging in sodden arable fields on the periphery of Hatfield Moors SSSI. 138 Peak count so far. 118 plus 2 Bewicks observed amongst them 8th February.
#BadBirdPhotographs The Black Swan still amongst the (predominantly) Whooper herd of >100 on the periphery of Hatfield Moors SSSI First reported on Thursday (19th). Wonder if the Bewick's are still around? This area soon to be covered by solar panels #HumberheadLevels #Doncaster
Whooper Swan herd foraging on arable fields near Hatfield Moors SSSI.
Whooper Swan herd foraging earlier today (11/02/2026) on arable fields scheduled to be part of a seriously extensive #solar farm in the #HumberheadLevels >100 birds with a couple of Bewick's amongst them last week🦢
Nature's tenacity? This asco #fungi growing out from a painted wooden door in a #HumberheadLevels town centre🐤 At first glance it reminded me of Auricularia auricula-judae aka "jelly ear" but keen to hear if other options are thought better (along with rationale please)🤔 @britmycolsoc.org.uk
#BadBirdPhotographs Whooper Swan herd earlier today, estimated to be around 80 birds foraging in fields on periphery of #HatfieldMoors SSSI. Surely there's a Bewick's lurking somewhere hereabouts? #HumberheadLevels
13 Whooper Swans, 22/01/2026. Arable fields on approach to Hatfield Mill.
Another #BadBirdPhotograph, this one of a small herd of 13 Whooper Swans feeding in #HumberheadLevels arable fields earlier today (22/01/2026).
#BadBirdPhotography 😞
One of the two Bramblings regularly visiting our garden feeders over the last couple of months👍 Part of mixed Chaff, Gold & Green finch flock competing with other usual visitors for food #HumberheadLevels #Garden birds
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, Epworth. New Year's Eve 2025.
A functioning peat bog can help us challenge climate change bringing with it increasing adverse weather events across the globe. We need politicians worldwide to recognise the importance of peat. We need to go peat free now & stop procrastinating NOW!
With loads of challenges along with (hopefully) some opportunities in 2026 here's wishing all my followers & friends a happy & healthy New Year👍Let's hope it's better 4 the planet, 4 the natural environment, 4 wildlife & 4 people💚 Go ##PeatFree & help challenge #ClimateEmergency #HumberheadLevels
Male catkins of Hazel, quite a few present on the coppiced stems in the small copse.
Festive Eve greetings to my followers & friends😊 An assortment of #garden #flowers to cheer the mood😊 Here's wishing you all happy & healthy celebrations as another year appears on the horizon👍 Take care & stay safe all👍 #HumberheadLevels #Wildlife #Wildflowers
Useful contribution to the understanding of historical #BlackGrouse regional populations #HumberheadLevels
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Image shows an area on Thorne Moors SSSI which is recovering after the ravages of peat extraction for the horticultural trade.
Been going on here in #HumberheadLevels since the 1960s with eventual cessation of peat extraction in 2004 thanks to buy out of extant permissions on public owned land (after the great PR stunt of 1994 when the corporates 'gifted' the land but carried on the plunder by virtue of a secret agreement).
Early appearing Hazel Watkins. Humberhead Levels December 2025.
Early appearing Hazel Watkins. Humberhead Levels December 2025.
Confused catkins? All very well these appearing in early (onset of) winter but will their potential recipients follow suit🤔 Hazel; male catkins 11 December 2025. Another challenged provided by changing #climate patterns🤔 #HumberheadLevels #Hedgerows #Hazel #Phenology
Restoring Yorkshire’s peatlands! 🌱
Over 800ha of bog at #HumberheadLevels is being revived to lock carbon, boost biodiversity & reduce floods.
Learn more 👉 www.ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire-wildlife-trust/bringing-back-bog-peatland-restoration-humberhead-levels
#PeatlandRestoration
Anyone help with ID of these pupae would be appreciated, quite a few on various spp hedgerow plants #HumberheadLevels today #Lepidoptera #Butterflies
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Wonder what 'predator' removed the end of this chrysalis to feed (?) on its contents? Hymenoptera spp perhaps? #HumberheadLevels #Parasitica @ianbeavis.bsky.social @suillia.bsky.social @brianecambs.bsky.social
Suggestions for the ID of the little critter on this Alder leaf would be appreciated (zoom in to see), looks like might be a beetle larva? There are intriguing patterns created as well as just round holes in other nearby leaves. #Entomology #Coleoptera #HumberheadLevels @brianecambs.bsky.social
Prunes spinosa aka Blackthorn or Sloe. Fruits used to make Sloe gin, the wood used for walking sticks & also the Irish Shillelagh!
Signs of Autumn, after the agricultural harvest there comes nature's offering in the #HumberheadLevels
Narrow rural roads with dykes either side with vast expanses of industrialised monocultures
Should it be farmed for #Food or #Energy? #Sustainability #Peat #Soils #Solar
Southern Oak Bush-cricket found in Thorne 09/09/2025
An interesting #HumberheadLevels find, a female Southern Oak Bush-cricket found by a friend on her car earlier today. #Thorne #Doncaster #Yorkshire #Orthoptera
First recorded in UK in 2001 so a recent ish addition, a predator of Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner according to the literature!
Himacerus apterus aka Tree Damsel Bug. Humbergead Levels garden.
These little critters can inflict a quite painful 'bite', I can still feel it an hour after it pierced my finger 😒
Himacerus apterus aka Tree Damsel Bug in my #HumberheadLevels garden this afternoon🪳 #Nabidae
Believe these to be Nematus septentrionalis aka Hazel Sawfly. Humberhead Levels garden hedge.
Are there any #Sawfly #Symphyta experts able to confirm my thoughts that these are Nematus septentrionalis aka Hazel Sawfly in my #HumberheadLevels garden (mixed species hedge) this afternoon #Hymenoptera
Anyone good with identifying fish from their underside🤔 Three quite large specimens dead this morning #Hatfield Waste Drain despite EA aerating the drain #HumberheadLevels #Fish
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Definitely not the best of photographs but a record shot of actinic #moth trap bycatch🦋 A nice mahogany coloured Arhopalus rusticus aka Dusky #Longhorn #Beetle 🪲 Indentations on thorax quite noticeable, helping ID #HumberheadLevels garden #Cerambycidae
Always nice to catch Lymantria monacha aka Black Arches, a stunning #moth in my opinion & a good #HumberheadLevels garden record #Lepidoptera 🦋
Healthy populations of long standing on both Thorne Moors SSSI particularly & Hatfield Moors SSSI in parts. Roesel's BC also a relatively recent addition to the #orthoptera lists. #HumberheadLevels #Yorkshire
Reckon this is a Chromatomyia spp. Leaf mine found on Sonchus oleraceus earlier today in a semi rural garden (outskirts of a village) #HumberheadLevels
#Diptera #Agromyzidae
See also www.leafmines.co.uk/html/Diptera...
Begs the question what Buckleria paludum aka #Sundew Plume have in their make up that ensures they do not fall victim #HumberheadLevels #Lepidoptera #MothsMatter #TeamMoth
Will have to log as Amphipyna spp. / Copper Underwing as too quick to check the necessary for a definitive ID. Underside of the hindwing in Copper is limited to the outer third & ends abruptly at dark cross-band, on Svenson's this extends towards base in trailing half. For more information recommend : Waring, Townend & Lewington, 2017.
Another early morning #HumberheadLevels garden visitor, flew from the hedge across my path & settled briefly on the white garage door Amphipyna pyramidae/berbera (Copper / Svenson's Copper Underwing) but too quick to check necessary for definitive species ID 😒 #Lepidoptera ##MothsMatter #TeamMoth
You can see why they get their vernacular names of 'Tiger Crane Flies" from🤔🙂 This, Nephrotoma flavescens is the 'Primrose Tiger' (Stubbs, 2021). Very mobile around willow tree in the garden, not cooperating for a decent photo but not a problem in terms of species ID🙃 #HumberheadLevels #Tipulids
Leptophyes punctatissima (Speckled Bush Cricket) nymph found 30/06/2025 climbing brickwork of house, settled under eaves of a bay window.
Found this wee critter climbing the brickwork to eventually settle under eaves of a bay window🙃 Speckled Bush Cricket nymph, 🦗 an unexpected visitor yesterday in sweltering 30 deg. C 😵💫 🦗 #HumberheadLevels #Orthoptera
Looks like someone pulled the plug on parts of #Hatfield Moors SSSI for the Yorkshire Naturalists Union visit to the sphagnum growing project "Mire Emergency" on Lindholme on a humid 28 deg. C day #HumberheadLevels
Forget the plastic packaged supermarket version & OK maybe a shorter season but give me local grown #Strawberries any day Shame Blue-sky isn't sniff enabled, & not to mention the flavour, oh so yummy 😋 #HumberheadLevels
