Difficult to photograph but it appears that a small Luffia lapidella case has appeared on the trunk of a sycamore at Hollins Hall, Baildon #VC64

Young Sand Martin peering out of a drainage pipe over the Leeds-Liverpool Canal at Shipley today 😀 #riparia

Does anyone recognise this bee? #VC64

Comma butterflies are now emerging in the garden where hop and Wych Elm grow in abundance 😀 #VC64 #Baildon #Polygonia

Pyrausta aurata flying around the marjoram in today’s sunshine 😀

Summers here 😊

The (diminishing) soundtrack of Sherwood.. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust Graham Birkett Buglife allthingsmothy Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Garden Organic National Garden Scheme sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/the…

A Beautiful Plume (Amblyptilia acanthadactyla) came into the house #VC64

The Otley cygnet is looking more robust and has hopefully learned to stay away from the weir! 😀

The next generation of Comma butterflies has started with a female laying eggs on hop and elm in our front garden today 😀 #Polygonia #VC64

Hooray! 264J is back in Otley 😀 26 BHGs on the river today and at least six of them have colour rings. We are still waiting for our favourite 235H 🤔 #GullOfTheDay #GullsOfOtley #Chroicocephalus #ridibundus #NWBHGs

Tiny Comma caterpillar on Wych Elm today 😀 #Polygonia #VC64

Is this a dark version of the Box-tree Moth on our Buddleia last night? #perspectalis #VC64 ⁦UK Moth Identification⁩

HBHM on the Buddleia this evening 😀 #VC64 ⁦Mark following nature⁩

Small Copper butterfly on the Otley flood alleviation meadow today. At least three young Black-headed Gulls on the river. #GullsOfOtley #OtleyButterflies #Chroicocephalus #ridibundus #NWBHGs #VC64

“Salty” the 12 year old BHG is back in Guiseley McDonalds car-park 😀 EY37615 was ringed by Tees Ringing Group as a nestling, sex unknown on 21-Jun-2013 at Saltholme, near Teesmouth, Stockton-on-Tees, UK #GullOfTheDay #GullsOfGuiseley #Chroicocephalus #ridibundus

A few juvenile Black-headed Gulls have been appearing in Church Bay lately, but surprisingly this one today was wearing a ring! Black 2335. A great blog post by Phil Woollen shows birds ringed at Shotton with numbers likely in the same sequence wirralbirders.blogspot.com/2025/06/black-…

Just a couple of weeks after we watched the Hummingbird Hawkmoth laying its eggs, we now have a tiny caterpillar! This is the first we've ever seen, but with so many adults around this year perhaps we'll find some more

Hooray! Otley’s favourite Black-headed Gull 235H is back! 🎉🥳 Possibly slightly bemused by the new footbridge but happily eating chips with 256J, 276J, 2E72 and 2E84 The boys are back in town! #GullOfTheDay #GullsOfOtley #Chroicocephalus #ridibundus #NWBHGs ⁦Mark following nature⁩

The first 2025 sighting of a rather scruffy Black-headed Gull 232J in Roundhay Park today. No clues as to where it has been since December. #GullOfTheDay #GullsOfRoundhay #Chroicocephalus #ridibundus #NWBHGs