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Honey bee, Weybeck's pasture - TOS Volunteer Sara

Weybeck's Pasture - A Celebration of Summer

Excited to see her local reserve in the new edition of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust guidebook “Discover Yorkshire’s Wildlife”, Sara, one of our Telling our Story volunteers visited on a sunny day…

Yorkshire Wolds View, Simon Tull

Exploring East Yorkshire's Rich Chalk Landscapes

This August, Telling Our Story Volunteer - Simon headed out to highlight three of our less visited nature reserves where geology combines with good habitat management to create some wildlife…

A Hebridean sheep grazing in a field. Photograph by Tom Marshall

Shearing - the long and short of it

Telling our story volunteer Howard Roddie decided he needed a haircut and thought he might get one for free. So, he headed off to the final Hebridean sheep shearing day of the season but he got…

Photo Credit, Simon Tull

A Visit to Yorkshire's Lands End

Telling Our Story Volunteer, Simon headed out to Spurn to collect his first story, he met volunteers and voluntary trainees on a Task Day where they were brushcutting. There, he discovered the…

Repairing drystone wall

Wild Ingleborough - Landscape-scale Conservation

Sara, one of our Telling Our Story Volunteers visited the Wild Ingleborough project, where Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is working with five other partner organisations to combat the impacts of the…

Cat moss - Sara, Telling our Story Volunteer

PeatFix a game-changer for peatlands?

Sara one of our Telling our Story volunteers visited Fleet Moss high above Wharfedale and Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales, to see the work going on by YWT staff to collect samples, as part of…

One of the many proud mothers with her new arrivals, in this case twins!  - Howard Roddie

Black Sheep - Pride of Yorkshire

Here in Yorkshire, we have good reason to be proud of our black sheep - both our famous and excellent beer and the Hebridean Sheep of the same colour grazing on our reserves. Beth Wood, our…

Close-up shot of a starling against a yellow background

Stunning Starlings

This month Sara takes a look back at the Starling Murmurations in early spring and revisits the moment she saw them for the first time at Ripon City wetlands which led her to ask – why are the…

Yellow-green snake coiled with tongue out looking to the left of the screen (Danny Green/2020VISION)

It's Springtime for Reptiles

Spring is here and the Reptiles are waking up! Voluntary Trainee Sophie Tomlinson trains a new set of Reptile Surveyor Volunteers and shares her enthusiasm with Telling Our Story Volunteer Howard…

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