Do you have experience surveying for otters and their signs? 🔍 We need your help! Sign up now for the 6th National Otter Survey of England 🦦 Find our more and sign up on our website ✨ 📸 – Derek Crawley @poofinder #nationalottersurvey #communityscience #ottersurveyors

We’ve been planting trees . 3 Oaks were transplanted from our tree nursery … complete with some spangle galls! Wild service tree given a new stake - looking good. #teamwork #volunteer #york TreemendousYork

On Saturday we planted out Tansy from Greenfields Garden and @YSJSustain along the #riverfoss Beautiful day, beautiful fungi and beautiful autumn colours.

Fantastic day yesterday RHS Harlow Carr & Northern Fruit Group’s apple event. Big thanks to all who helped with my mountain of apples for identification, and my many questions 🤓

So do join us at The Dormouse on Friday 12.30-3.30 Meet Annie & Newton Pick some apples, make some juice and feel free to bring your apples to test my ID skills!

A very useful online resource: Database of Insects and their Food Plants dbif.brc.ac.uk

Ever feel like you're being watched? 👀 The alluring silver birch 'eyes', formed from lesions left by fallen branches, has earned them the folk-name 'The Watchful Tree', with many believing they were home to spirits that silently & patiently guard their forests #FolkloreThursday

Couch to 10 Mosses is BACK 🎉🥳 #CouchTo10Mosses (1/8) ⬇️

For week 2 of #CouchTo10Mosses we have Springy Turf-moss (Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus), a beautiful, lawn-dwelling bryological jack-in-the-box! Here are your three key features to look out for: (1/9)

Just nature. Strutting into 2023 #newearswick #york #riverfoss m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

Operation Spring is apace ! Shoots and leaves young, fresh and new. This week’s shakers and movers: Tiny tansy leaves around old & new planting sites. Bundles of juicy bluebell leaves. The very first mms of wild garlic leaves poking up. Daffodils in bud

How treecreepers cuddle up to survive cold winters theguardian.com/environment/20…

*shouts* It’s all turning Spring-like 💚🤍💚 m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

See if you can spot signs of Spring around the corner, as shoots begin to show and #snowdrops start to bloom.🌱 Look for the nodding white flowers of snowdrops, each carried on a single stem, found in woodlands, parks & gardens and along riverbanks. 📷Jon Hawkins, Sadie McGlone

Plenty of blossom action now in CAN Land (Abundance York (a project from Edible York))

It’s #WorldWildlifeDay today. Celebrate wildlife every day by getting outside if you’re able. It’s surprising what you can find on your doorstep. Here’s some of our wildlife … #newearswick #york #community #volunteer

A way to get involved with research about river health. It takes only 15 minutes to record all sightings of wildlife and or pollution for the national survey. 21st - 30th April Planet Patrol planetpatrol.co/water-watch/ Let us know your findings too! #CitizenScience

We’re at the big event celebrating the River Foss this weekend. Willow Bank, New Earswick. Willow bank is a big stretch of green by the river. Pop over to our stand and say Hi!

CAN is taking a break from twitter … but not to our sessions! You can still find us on Tuesday and Saturday mornings from 10am. We’re still on Facebook so you can keep up with everything there. 😀 facebook.com/CommunityActio…