Creatures of the night...
A knock on the door and a request for help yesterday led to an unexpected close encounter with an often seen aerial acrobat
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Five creatures to spot in your garden...
From sunrise to sunset, look and listen out for these creatures in your garden…
Five creatures to spot from your window
From sunrise to sunset, look and listen out for these creatures out your window…
Five creatures to spot from your yard
From sunrise to sunset, look and listen out for these creatures in your little garden or yard...
All creatures great and small
You can find wildlife pretty much anywhere…sometimes you just need to stop and look.
Field pansy
With its familiar features, the Field pansy is a delicate version of a garden favourite. Usually creamy-yellow in colour, it can be seen in fields and on roadside verges and waste ground.
Water you waiting for?
Discover how adding water features like bird baths, ponds, and bog gardens can transform your garden into a vibrant haven for wildlife.
Hoverfly ID Workshop with Yorkshire Naturalists' Union
Join expert Yorkshire naturalist, Derek Whiteley, and sharpen your hoverfly identification skills. Learn the distinguishing features of true flies and how to identify them to species level. No…
Puffins
With its vibrant multicoloured beak and eccentric features, the puffin is one of our most exotic looking birds - it’s easy to see how it earned the nickname Sea Parrot!
Step out from your front door and count creatures great and small!
Our Great Yorkshire Creature Count challenges folk in every corner of Yorkshire to record as how many different wildlife species as they can from their own doorsteps in 24 hours. This mission for…
Purple laver
This purply-brown seaweed is a common feature on our rocky shores and on our dinner plates.
Ashes Shaw
Grassland borders beautiful ash woodland between Colt Park and the Settle-Carlisle railway. Here you’ll find a Scheduled Ancient Monument and other archaeological features.