Yorkshire is ablaze with colour from the wildflower meadows, which are at their peak right now. It's a great year for orchids in particular, so get out and enjoy the glorious meadows around Yorkshire this summer. 💜 ywt.org.uk/blog/wildflowe… #nationalmeadowday Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - North Yorkshire

A Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera) at Bishop Monkton Railway Cutting nature reserve Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - North Yorkshire

Lovely to visit Grass Wood Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - North Yorkshire North York Moors NP lots of brilliant flora to see 🥰

What do we get up to after dusk? Torchlight surveying the River Foss of course!🔦We spotted some amazing wildlife - can you guess what the creature pictured is?😃 Clue: Its tail actually acts as a kind of 'snorkel' rather than a sting, so it can breathe in the water. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - North Yorkshire

A great start to the week with some fern and sedge ID at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Askham Bog with the fabulous Alastair Fitter. Some really rare plants seen, inc Crested Buckler Fern, Slender and Pale Sedge. Also, three lovely Lunar Hornet Clearwings came to the pheromone lure.

Freshwater Habitats Trust are joining York. Dragonfly Grp. at Boltby near #Thirsk on 27th July to search for #dragonflies at this wonderful Yorkshire Water 💧 #PriorityPonds site. Come and join us! 😀email [email protected]

Last seen in the 1860s, our project to return Water Germander to Yorkshire, is showing early success with over 400 plants germinating this year! Thanks to our partners Nosterfield Nature Reserve palustris KingfishersBridgeNatureReserve and funding from Natural England's Species Recovery Programme.

Excellent day with our volunteers repairing drystone walls Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Ashes Pasture nature reserve. Protecting one of our tree planting schemes from straying sheep

Setting off this year's survey season in style - creating a new crayfish ark site in the Derwent Catchment earlier this month. Great effort from everyone involved. Funding from Natural England Y&NL Species Recovery Programme.

The jewel wasp Hedychrum nobile...seems well established now at Cali Heath Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve, with several seen yesterday around a sandy scrape made by cattle. YNU

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - North Yorkshire Penny Relf John Law DST Leconfield is inviting local naturalists to take part in its 2024 BioBlitz events. The next event is this coming weekend. Please contact me for more details.

Discover Yorkshire's coastal marvels in Scarborough this Sunday 🌊 Join #WildEye for a FREE sea watching event from 11-3pm along Marine Drive. Learn about whales, dolphins, and porpoises with experts, & enjoy marine-themed activities like mosaic making & fossils! See you there🐋

If you're planning on spending time in the National Park this summer, please take your letter home! Ta. North Yorkshire Council | #NoRubbishExcuses #YorkshireDales #KeepNorthYorkshireClean

Our new-ish scrapes at Low Carr near Pickering still holding plenty of water and are teeming with dragonflies this morning. Also, a few Teal, Snipe and Green Sandpipers. Amazing how much marginal and emergent vegetation is colonising the new wetlands.

To support the incredible work that so many charities do supporting the climate & environment, Movement for Good’s 4th special draw of the year is once again open, but only for 5 days! Please nominate us - it only takes a minute. 🙏 climate.movementforgood.com/index.php?cn=2… Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - North Yorkshire

Good luck to Becca Wanless who leaves us this week to pursue a new career. Becca has supported many of our projects from water quality sampling on the River Wiske (pic), to installing new Great Crested Newt Ponds and surveying for White-clawed Crayfish. We will miss you Becca!

Where have all the butterflies gone? 🦋 ywt.org.uk/blog/where-hav… Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Butterflies Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - North Yorkshire

Our Head of Advocacy, Jon Parkes, reflects on the recent General Election, and what this means for the future. 💭 ywt.org.uk/blog/yorkshire… Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - North Yorkshire Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - Marine - Living Seas Yorkshire Peat Partnership

A Greenshank, two Ruff, several hundred Lapwings and a Hobby catching dragonflies were all over the west lagoon at Staveley Nature Reserve at lunchtime today.

Kingfishers are being reported regularly around the reserve at present - particularly at Pool Hide on Wheldrake Ings, where birds have been showing well infront of the hide on the rails provided by our team of volunteers York Birding