Breaking: Scotland’s Flow Country wins UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 World Heritage status! 🥳 This is huge. Including RSPB Forsinard Flows, the Flow Country is a vital carbon sink and habitat for precious wildlife. It's the first ever peat bog to gain this status, too 🏆

This is why I love my job… What a morning on the sea on the Yorkshire Coast this morning. We had an epic double diving gannet trip and on the way back to Bridlington these guys followed us back to the harbour BBC Yorkshire BBC East Yorkshire ITV News Calendar BBC Earth YorkshireCoastNature

Broomhill Flash - 3 Cattle Egrets this morning, living upto their name Barnsley Birders RSPB_OldMoor @BirdDoncaster

The sign of the times. Holkham August 2024. Past, present and future ? Every Heron 𓆀💙

Happy Bank Holiday from the Water Industry 👀

FFS!! 🤬🤬🤬

This year's Seawatch Festival closed with a Balearic Shearwater, six Roseate Terns, 25 Little Gulls & six Caspian Gulls. Sincere thanks to all the Flamborough Bird Observatory volunteers & visitors who helped ensure it was such a blast!

"Feral pigeons as a new threat to seabirds." Airam Rodríguez Airam Rodríguez informs us that pigeon competition for nests was the most frequent cause of breeding failure (7.3%) in Bulwer's petrels. #CoimbraSeabirds

Pioneering Oyster Restoration in the Humber estuary 🌊 Wilder Humber is using a ground-breaking "remote setting" method to restore native oysters, devastated by overfishing, pollution, & disease. Over 5 years, 500,000 oysters will be reintroduced to build thriving reefs! 🦪

Sometimes you just have one of those days... I was lucky to be leading Monday's YorkshireCoastNature wildlife adventure when all hell broke loose about five nautical miles off the North Yorks coast. Here's those seven incredible hours distilled into a few minutes: northernrustic.blogspot.com/2024/09/humpba…

More than 30000 Red Admirals (Vanessa atalanta) migrating east today in Vlissingen (SW NL) on a bird count site: trektellen.nl/count/view/2/2…. Film by Mayro Pattikawa

Two juvenile Sabines Gulls locally at Redmires Reservoirs today, a great find by Richard Hill ShefBirdStudyGroup @BirdDoncaster

In the September issue: Common Guillemots delivering Lesser Weever fish to their chicks Keith Clarkson ➡️britishbirds.co.uk/journal/articl…

Missed out on the migrant moth mayhem last week in Yorkshire, I was away, but look what happened at 6.00am this morning fluttering around the actinic. Driffield, VC61 East Yorkshire. Beautiful Marbled! Migrant Lepidoptera Butterfly Conservation Yorkshire Charles Fletcher Today's James Lowen daily moth!

My ears are prepped and primed…I cannot wait to hear my first redwing of the season!! This little pen drawing on a vintage atlas map will have to do for now….#Autumn

Felt like Falsterbo in Sweden today at RSPB Bempton! 58 CommBuzz went sth. All appeared to head-in from nw. Red Kite 1se with Buzz’s, went se then turned sw. Marsh Harrier 3juv + 1high sw +ad fem. Peregrine m&f on cliffs, Merlin juv se. Sparrowhawk juv m + 2 high sth & 4 Kestrel

To answer the question I got a couple times on if the red-footed falcon caught the dragonfly, safe to say it did! Elmley NNR

What an amazing eastern gem!! Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - not a bird I ever expected to see 10 minutes from home. Huge kudos to Andy Hood for finding and ScratchDial for pinning down the ID, not to mention the twitch management from all the amazing staff RSPB Bempton Cliffs

Pale-legged Leaf Warbler - real treat to see this rare eastern vagrant. Pleased to get some really good views and to hear it calling. Thanks to Ashley Banwell for convincing me that joining him was a sensible thing to do... Not too many people on Sunday & really enjoyable experience