Such incredible elusive birds!
#Bittern #YorkshireWildlife #NorthCaveWetlands
Netta rufina
Netta rufina
The long staying Red-Crested Pochard at @rspb.bsky.social St Aidan's showed very well in the afternoon sun shortly after New Years.
By far our best view of one!
@unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social #UKWildlife #YorkshireWildlife #Wildlife #YorkshireBirding #BirdingUK #RareBirdsUK 🪶
Went for a walk. If my only photos are crows and robins, you know there wasn't much about! Still nice to have a spot of sunshine. #AskhamBog #YorkshireWildlife
The Yorkshire coast is under attack by the Oil and Gas industry yet again. Please help us fight it. Nature is threatened! #birdingyorkshire #yorkshirewildlife #nofrackinganywhere
Mr and Mrs. Surprised to see these two beauties in my local patch. Taken from our van window. #addBirder #yorkshirewildlife
Sunset Paull Holme Strays #Sunset #Paull #Holme #Strays #Humber #Holderness #yorkshirewildlife @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
River, Canal & Meadow. August 17 & 21, 2025 www.marfell.me.uk/wordpress/ri... #yorkshirewildlife
Bracken Hall Green 11 Aug - only a handful of photos. #butterfly #yorkshirewildlife #galls www.marfell.me.uk/wordpress/br...
I found my first ever Alder Leaf Beetle today and look at him. So shiny, so majestic ❤️.
#beetle #entomology #bugs #nature #naturalworld #naturelovers #wildlife #yorkshire #yorkshirewildlife
Great to be back on the boat and amongst the whales the other day. More here: northernrustic.blogspot.com/2025/09/stai...
#UKcetaceans #UKWhales #Yorkshirewildlife #whalewatching
Denso + Scrape 2 Aug '25 www.marfell.me.uk/wordpress/de... #YorkshireWildlife #CommonBlue #Butterfly
A male Willow Emerald Damselfly perched on a hawthorn branch
A male Ruddy Darter dragonfly perched on the tip of a dead plant
#odonata at North Cave Wetlands Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve yesterday. Willow Emerald Damselfly has only reached here in the past couple of years.
This male Ruddy Darter was outnumbered by Common Darters.
#wildlife #dragonflies #damselflies #insects #yorkshirewildlife
Colias croceus croceus
A post work trip yesterday to see some local Clouded Yellows at Ledstone, Yorkshire.
3 in flight together with a possible 4th racing around in the early evening sunshine.
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#UKWildlife #YorkshireWildlife #UKButterflies #Wildlife #Butterflies 🦋
Morus bassanus
Morus bassanus
Morus bassanus
Morus bassanus
A #SuperSeabirdSunday from the North Sea off @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social.
Yesterday @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I had an incredible experience with diving Northern Gannets.
@rspb.bsky.social @steelyseabirder.bsky.social
#YorkshireWildlife #Wildlife #YorkshireBirding #Seabirds 🪶
Favonius quercus quercus
Favonius quercus quercus
It's been a while since @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I have targeted butterflies.
On Saturday we got Sarah's lifer Purple Hairstreaks at Roundhay Park in Leeds.
@bcyorkshire.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social #UKButterflies #YorkshireButterflies #Wildlife #YorkshireWildlife 🦋
Denso, Scrape & Canal 5 Jul '25 www.marfell.me.uk/wordpress/de... Nice views of a singing Song Thrush and a Burnet Moth on Burnet. #yorkshirebirds #yorkshirewildlife
DMNR & up to the Canal. 20/06/2025 www.marfell.me.uk/wordpress/dm... Denso Marston Nature Reseerve, the scrape & Leeds Liverpool Canal. #Ladybirds, #Butterflies, #Damselflies, #Dragonfly, Sawfly, #Goosander, Grey Wagtail, Grey Heron and other things. #yorkshirewildlife
A pyramid orchid (c) simon tull
A perfect pyramid orchid at one of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's East Yorkshire chalk quarry nature reserves #outdoorphotography #woodlandphotography #landscapephotography #landscape_lover #wildflowers, #bluebells #ScenesOfYorkshire #YorkshireWildlife #orchid
Sympetrum fonscolombii male
Sympetrum fonscolombii female
After having to wait all week until today, I've been incredibly lucky to see and photograph Red-Veined Darters in Yorkshire.
Up to 3 males and a female on the south bank at Anglers County Park this morning.
@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
#YorkshireWildlife #Odonata #UKDragonflies
Melanargia galathea serena
On Saturday @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I had a great day out with @birderbee.bsky.social at @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Brockadale Nature Reserve looking at Marbled Whites.
Always a thrill seeing them!
@savebutterflies.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social
#UKButterflies #YorkshireWildlife
Dorsal view of a tansy beetle. A shining metallic green with coppery tones over the centre of the back where the elytra meet.
A lateral view of the beetle on a tansy leaf.
An angled view from the front of the beetle. Nestling near the stem of the tansy leaf.
Tansy beetles (Chrysolina graminis), classified as ‘Nationally Scarce’ these occur in only a couple of locations, one of which is close to my daughter in York.
On tansy plants (Tanacetum vulgare) they are larger than I expected & so beautiful.
#UKwildlife
#YorkshireWildlife
#beetles
#coleoptera
A gnarled silver birch tree standing amongst bracken and bluebells in an englsih woodland (c) simon tull
A glade in an english woodland, with a path lined by bluebellsm(c) simon tull
Bluebells in a wooded glade (c) simon tull
Signs of spring everywhere at North Cliffe Woods, East Yorkshire - and one of my favourite "character" trees a lovely gnarly old birch #outdoorphotography #woodlandphotography #landscapephotography #splendid_woodlands #landscape_lover #wildflowers, #bluebells #ScenesOfYorkshire #YorkshireWildlife
View from my caravan window in Knaresborough, never know what you will see where!!! He's a bit of a poser.
#northyorksbirds #Yorkshirewildlife @steelyseabirder.bsky.social @petewalkden.bsky.social
Two black grouse face each other in battle during an early morning lek above Wensleydale, Yorkshire. We see the tail display feathers of the nearest bird and the open beak and wings of the bird behind it.
One of last week's Black Grouse images from waaaaay up above Wensleydale. A serious face-off during the dawn lek. #birds #blackgrouse #wildlifephotography #yorkshirewildlife
Bombylius major
A great day for insects with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social at YWT Staveley today with no less than 5 Dark-Edged Bee-Flies. The most we've ever seen!
#UKInsects #YorkshireInsects #YorkshireWildlife #UKWildlife
PURPLE SANDPIPER
Bridlington Harbour
#wader #wadingbird #shorebirds #yorkshirewildlife #bird #birdsseenin2025 #birds #bestbirds #wildlife #nature #naturephotographer #naturephotography
Piezodorus lituratus
The first new insect of the year for @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I at the weekend.
Several Gorse Shieldbugs out and about in the warmth on the errr... gorse at @rspb.bsky.social St. Aidan's.
#UKWildlife #UKInsects #YorkshireWildlife #MacroPhotography #Swilly #SwillingtonIngs
Fringilla montifringilla
Making the most of the great weather, @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I headed to @northcavewet.bsky.social for a Sunday walk.
A lovely surprise to come across this Brambling at the feeders.
#UKBirding #YorkshireBirding #Wildlife #YorkshireWildlife 🪶
Halyzia sedecimguttata
An afternoon walk around a local cemetery yielded a handful of Ladybirds on the headstones.
Sadly, no new ones but 3 Oranges were the highlight along with some 2-Spots and a 7-Spot.
#UKLadybirds #UKWildlife #UKInsects #YorkshireWildlife 🐞