Wallsend Wildlife Patchwork Challenge Low-Carbon Birding NHSN Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club Paul Davidson Graham Appleton Rob Stonehouse Mike Carr Alan Curry Jack Bucknall Pintail are not quite annual on my patch, so nice to get a call from Phil at NHSN's Gossy Park to say two this am, #131 on the green patch yearlist😀 Also a Wigeon & a pale Buzzard. Patchwork Challenge Low-Carbon Birding Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club Wallsend Wildlife Mike Carr James Common

It's mail out day!!💌 Thank you to all our volunteers who kindly spent their afternoon packaging your member's magazine, we couldn't have done it without you.🐦📚

We carefully unrolled a raspberry leaf in our garden to see 🕷️ mam protecting her newly hatched spiderlings 🤗 Enoplognatha ovata, form lineata 💚

When our longstanding member Audrey Berrie passed away recently, her son Peter very kindly invited us to choose some books from her collection - these will be added to our library and/or donated to young naturalists to support their natural history learning.

Snail Mail Alert‼️🐌📮 One of our members from Devon sent us this surprise by post. Check your post boxes to see if a friendly snail or slug has made themselves a home in it, occasionally munching on your letters!📰 #snailmail

Our brilliant volunteers have been a large help with delivering the Autumn 2024 NHSN magazines to members. Here is Dave McKeon's amazing delivery route! ^ Amelia, Student Naturalist #NoticeNatureNearYou #Strava

This week we were fortunate enough to hold the biannual Nature Connection Workshop at Gosforth Nature Reserve🤝 It was great hearing from our guest speakers about their projects and how we can form more of a connection with nature🍃 ^Hollie Muir, Assistant Naturalist

Yesterday, the children from North Fawdon Primary School had a fun day at Gosforth Nature Reserve, taking part in nature walks, mini beast hunts, bird spotting and nature art!!🐝 It is thanks to the legacy of Tony Tynan for making days like this possible with schools.

A busy afternoon at Newcastle University's campus bioblitz!🐞 There were lots of great finds, knowledge shared and an appreciation for what you can find in your local green space. #NUsustainability #GosforthsWildWeb #bioblitz ^Hollie Muir, Assistant Naturalist🌺

Today marks the start of Autumn and a great time to visit #GosforthNatureReserve 👣 Birds, insects, and beautiful autumn colours, there is so much to discover this season whether you choose to explore in the woods or relax in the hides. Come along and see for yourself...

Start your Monday morning with some glorious photo of North East wildlife!🦉 Thank you to James Reed-Embleton, Richard Potts and Dave Purnell for these beautiful photos. Have a photo to share? Get in touch at [email protected] 🦋 #barnowl #marshharrier #smallcopper #wildlife

New arrivals for the NHSN collection at Great North Museum: Hancock library - the New Naturalist Library volumes will be joining our considerable collection! @TWAMMuseums Richard Smyth

In madly good company here.

Roe deer NHSN Amateur Photographer #APPicoftheWeek #myarkwildlife RSPB BBCWildlifeMagazine BBC Springwatch North East Tweets

🐦🦦 Exciting sightings at Gosforth Nature Reserve today! Our visitors spotted a Kingfisher and an Otter. Come explore the beauty of nature with us and see what amazing creatures you'll encounter! ©Chris Castling #GosforthNatureReserve #Kingfishers #Otters

Yesterday, Eastlea Primary School had a great day taking part in pond dipping, nature walk, mini beast hunts, bird spotting and nature art!☔ It is thanks to the legacy of Tony Tynan for making days like this possible with schools. ^Hollie Muir, Assistant Naturalist

What a great tree training session Student and Assistant Naturalists had with Gosforth Nature Reserve's reserve warden, Paul Drummond!🌳 Paul shared his knowledge of tree identification, the reserve's history and the site is managed. ^Hollie Muir, Assistant Naturalist🌺

Start your Friday with this majestic Roe Deer buck🦌 Roe Deer are our most common native deer and are brown in colour, turning red in summer and darker grey in winter. Thank you to Chris Castling for this amazing photo!📸 #roedeer #GosforthNatureReserve

New addition to the NHSN library, arrived today on the first anniversary of the Sycamore Gap tree's felling - congratulations to DrKateFox on a beautiful book! #NHSNLibrary #SycamoreGap #NatureWriting

At NHSN, we're collecting stories of how nature has affected your life - for better and for worse, through good times and bad. Our heritage researcher Pete Mitchell is eager to hear from you - by post, online, at events or in person. ow.ly/N7LH50Txfl4