Late Afternoon Sky. 8°C after the rain. Sparrows.
An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Our Dark Skies Festival with the @yorkshiredales.org.uk is just one month away and it’s shaping up to be an unforgettable celebration of the night sky 🌌
Take a look at the full programme: https://www.darkskiesnationalparks.org.uk/
📸 Chris Whiles
#DarkSkiesFestival2026
Let's explain rocks by sandwiches. Trust me. Earth builds rock three main ways: it stacks, it cools from melt, or it presses and reheats what it already made. #Geology 🧵
This kind of day today! 🌧🌤🌈
Can you find a flowering member of the Gentian family or Gentianaceae, that’s the challenge this week. Post your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #GentianFamily. Happy flower hunting!
Read about @yorkswildlife.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social’s exciting Wild Ingleborough! A landscape scale conservation project. I was lucky to visit the nursery where wildflowers are being propagated in their thousands 💞 www.wildway.info/p/wild-ingle...
Good evening lovely 😍! #hedgehog #Malton #nature 💚
A dead nettle that's not a Dead Nettle for #WildflowerHour - Fen Nettle - Urtica dioica subsp. galeopsifolia.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Fen Creation Workshop, 8th August 10am - 1pm
Suitable for conservation practitioners, students and volunteers, this free workshop explores fen creation on a sand and gravel quarry
For more information, see the link below:
www.luct.org.uk/events-1/20...
A public consultation for the draft North Yorkshire & York Local Nature Recovery Strategy is now running until 11 August. And there are a number of events for Dales-based land managers and farmers. Find out more 👇
www.northyorks.gov.uk/environment-...
#YorkshireDales #LNRS #NatureRecovery
Small heath??
Timothy 😉
Loving your pics from Hickling. Hornsea mere or Lower Derwent Valley for GWP
Better late than never! For #WildflowerHour #HairyPlants week I have wonderfully wooly thistle! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Some butterflies and a moth from @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Wharam Quarry in the week. Six spot burnet moth, small heath, roosting common blue and marbled white butterflies. Flowers a bit crispy but a lovely evening stroll. @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 💚
The heatwave is back, and the fire risk is high. Please help keep the countryside safe.
🔥 No barbecues or campfires
🍾 Take glass bottles and jars home
🚬 Dispose of cigarettes properly
📞 If you see a fire, call 999
With thanks North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue
Gatekeeper in the garden today #Malton @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social also large white & ringlet 💚
With warmer temperatures forecast for the end of the week hopefully you’ll appreciate a watery theme for this week’s challenge! Find wild or naturalised aquatic plants in bloom and share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #AquaticPlants 💦🌱
Congratulations Anjana 👏
Lovely and lively mass of peacock butterfly caterpillar today along the banks of the River Derwent, North Yorkshire
@savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social
For #WildflowerHour this week marsh bedstraw, water forget-me-not, some stonking southern marsh orchid (and some likely hybrids with CS orchid), CS orchid, field rose (?), ragged robin, lesser stitchwort and meadow vetchling (with friends) 💚
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
For #WildflowerHour this week lesser spearwort (and friend 🐁), bladder campion, crosswort & water avens, hoary plantain, salad burnett, yellow rattle, bird's foot trefoil, commons spotted orchid & common milkwort 💚
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Great to work with partners @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social & @naturalengland.bsky.social on a secret project to nurture Lady's-slipper Orchid back into the wild in Yorkshire!
More info here: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... & here: bsbi.org/download/467...
Better late than never for #wildflowerhour & not orchids! Wild gladioli, thrift, wild thyme, ivy broomrape, stinking iris, horseshoe vetch, kidney vetch, woolly thistle & wild carrot all from that there Purbeck down South! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Great news, hoping for a successful fledging too! 💚
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The National Fire Chiefs Council has reported over 200 more wildfires this year than for the same period in 2022 - the worst year on record for wildfires, and more hot spells are predicted.
Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe.
#NoMowMay bringing joy & not just for plants, but birds, inverts, herps - all! We're lucky to have a pair of greenfinch & yesterday one feeding in our little patch 💚 Soon it'll be a little crèche for froglets 🐸 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @froglife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
We've been doing #NoMowMay for a few years now & as it kicks off this week I'm sharing our little meadow in our back garden. We don't cut the front at all other than a postie path! Yellow rattle now becoming self-sustaining! Brings much joy!! 💚 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
