NEYEDC Thanks for the fabulous plug, much appreciated. We are also interested in other, easier to come by, grasslands like road verges, churchyards, amenity grasslands and even wild gardens. Thanks all

Join the North Yorkshire Crayfish Forum @NYCrayfishForum at their crayfish engagement day next Thursday, 25th July at Threshfield Quarry Ark Site. Head along any time between 11-3 to learn more about White-clawed Crayfish and the work of the forum!

As part of our trustees meeting yesterday we said goodbye to Tony, who is stepping down after almost 20 years as a trustee for NEYEDC. Tony (3rd from L, back row📸) has witnessed lots of change in the organisation over the years & we're thankful for his service to the trust!

This week is #NationalMothWeek! We're big moth lovers here at NEYEDC and over the last few years we've supported lots of new recorders to get into moth trapping. We've caught (and released) some beauties... 💡 and we're in the process of perfecting our next set of moth traps!

It's #NationalMarineWeek! 🌊 #DidYouKnow that with coastline from Cowbar to Kilnsea, NEYEDC accepts marine & coastal records? We're currently working with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and other organisations to streamline our marine data collation to ensure we're receiving valuable records 🔎

Our July #MapOfTheMonth is up on our website and this time we're featuring a map created as part of support for one of our local groups, Molescroft Wildlife Network. We mapped hedgehog records for the group as part of their 'Hedgehog Highways' project: neyedc.org.uk/updates-insigh… 🦔

Blog #66 in our #YorkshireIn100Species series is live on our website today: neyedc.org.uk/100-species/20… This week, Nabil Abbas, Project Manager for Nidderdale National Landscape Skell Valley Project, has selected the iconic wetland plant Ragged Robin 💧🪷

Boosting this project from University of Exeter, Cornwall looking at the activity of garden #moths and what flowers they pollinate! Take a 10min nighttime walk in your garden and see what the moths are up to. More info and sign up on the project website: visual-ecology.com #ukwildlife

Our next #YorkshireIn100Species blog is live on the website, this time authored by our very own Ecological Information Officer, Lucy. Lucy's chosen species is the Minke Whale, an impressive species and regular visitor to the Yorkshire coastline!🐋neyedc.org.uk/100-species/20…

We are in Nottingham today, meeting with other LERCs who are working on the updating our bit of the Ancient Woodland Inventory for England. Looking forward to sharing ideas and hearing about different approaches to updating this important resource. #AWIuCon24

Incredible news!

Our Local Wildlife Sites officer has been busy visiting LWS/SINCs up for survey this year, with the help of our expert surveyors...this coastal site was a great end of summer treat! 📋🏖️🩴 📸Grass-of-parnassus, devil's bit scabious, carline thistle and sea arrowgrass.

We're venturing to urban Hull for a new instalment in our #YorkshireIn100Species project, in search of one of our best-loved birds, the Barn Owl. PhD student at University of Hull Matthew Morgan tells us more about what makes them special: neyedc.org.uk/100-species/20… 🦉

One of our ongoing projects at NEYEDC is the update of the Ancient Woodland Inventory, where we've reached the stage of evidence gathering via archive & field work. Our newest blog focuses on the former & how we're using these interesting sources! neyedc.org.uk/updates-insigh…

Autumn is just around the corner, which means our #YorkshireWaxcaps project will soon be underway again! Remember, you can record your #waxcap records across Yorkshire via our WaxcApp survey developed in collaboration with Plantlife. For more info: neyedc.org.uk/waxcaps🍄

Today's #YorkshireIn100Species blog celebrates one of Yorkshire's most iconic birds, the Curlew: neyedc.org.uk/100-species/20… Photographer Walking Photographer tells us more about this much-loved species and the conservation work he's documented in our region 📸

The different appearances of Blackening Waxcap throughout its development 🍄 This common #waxcap starts off yellowy orange and cone-shaped, opening out and fading to black as it ages. See if you can spot it this autumn! #YorkshireWaxcaps #waxcAPP NEYEDC Plantlife

The mist eventually cleared this morning allowing us to complete our RGB & multispectral habitat mapping work on a site at Ripon using the drone. This mapping will help in monitoring the site and informing management. Rob caught some extra images of the site with the quadcopter.

A new #DataDiaries blog is live on our website! neyedc.org.uk/updates-insigh… This time we're putting the spotlight on a recent survey of wintering and breeding bird data collected on Humberside, a valuable dataset for our evidence base ⬇️🐦‍⬛

Every month we share a map created by NEYEDC in the course of our work - September's #MapOfTheMonth is now up on our website! This month we're sharing mapping created as part of a tree planting suitability assessment in North Yorkshire: neyedc.org.uk/updates-insigh… 🌳