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A Yorkshire charity dedicated to conserving & restoring our wildlife on land & sea. 🦉🦔🐬🌱🌷 Follow @YWTLivingSeas @YWTPottericCarr @YWT_North @ypp_peat
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Home to rare species found nowhere else in the world, Ingleborough has the potential to be one of the most important limestone landscapes in the world!
Find out more about how we’re reviving Yorkshire’s rarest upland landscape.
📷David Berry
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Know your buzzy friends in this hot weather! 🐝
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Who thinks we should see more of these? 🦔🦔🦔
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Another incredible starling murmuration at
@YWTPottericCarr
last night - right over the visitor centre this time. We're really quite jealous of our colleagues based at the nature reserve - how fantastic that they can see this magic from the office window!
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Nature's tiny masterpiece - a wonderous mini-world adorns this fence post on Wharram Quarry nature reserve! 💚
📷 Clare Humphrey
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VICTORY FOR ASKHAM BOG! ✨
The Secretary of State agreed that the appeal should be dismissed. Askham Bog can continue to thrive for wildlife and for people, for years to come!🌿
We are overjoyed! ❤️ Together we have made this happen - a heartfelt thank you.
📷 Daniel Malone
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We're shocked that someone has dumped ~1000 tyres at Brockadale nature reserve ☹️ As a charity, removing them costs us time & money we don't have, impacting our work for wildlife🐾 We know there are people across Yorkshire doing fab things everyday - can you help/share our story?
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Isn't nature just beautiful? 😍😍😍
Thanks to Charles White for capturing these beauties mid-flight!
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Who else is feeling like this after Christmas dinner? 😂
Thanks to Kev Harper for the fabulous shot!
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Just waiting for summer like... 😴 Anyone else fed up of the cold, wet weather?! 🌧
📷 Andrew Scott
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'Ey up, it's
#YorkshireDay
!
We think Yorkshire is the best place in the world 🌍 With stunning landscapes and incredible wildlife, there truly is no place like it ❤️
📷clockwise: Harry Johnson, Mark Heslington, Michael Crowe, Joe Burn
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We're THRILLED that planned development next to Askham Bog has just been unanimously refused by
@CityofYork
, facing over 7000 objections ✨
We are so happy that the story of Askham Bog will continue. A fantastic victory for wildlife, for conservation, and for this special place!
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How incredible is the detail on this little robin's feathers?
Happy Friday everyone!
Thanks to Michelle Coyle for the amazing photo 📷
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Exciting news from Potteric Carr nature reserve! 🎉
Black-winged stilts have successfully bred for the first time ever in Yorkshire with two fledglings spotted on Tuesday afternoon 🐣 (1/4)
All photos📷 Paul Paddock
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When it's cold enough to see the song 😍🎶
📸 Mikhail Kalinin
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Hedgehogs are starting to emerge from their winter hibernation 🦔🦔🦔
Do be careful if you're starting to do work in your garden - check carefully for hoggies before doing any strimming or cutting back!
📷 Tom Marshall
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However you're feeling this morning, here's a baby grey seal to bring joy to your Monday 💙
Thank you to Brian Matthews for the amazing photo! 📸
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Great news! Corncrake have likely bred on our Wheldrake Ings reserve, along with curlews and common terns! It's been a bumper harvest across Lower Derwent Valley
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Sunday snoozes 😴😴😴
Thank you Julie Levere for the photo!
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A huge thankyou to
@Protyre
for stepping up after 1000 tyres were dumped on Brockadale nature reserve. They sent the tyres to be recycled & made into athletics tracks, playgrounds & more. Their support is hugely appreciated!
Thankyou everyone who offered support - you're fab! 💚
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Know your buzzy friends in this hot weather! 🐝😉
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'It's a little bit cramped, but it'll do...'
Thank you so much to Mark Rowe for sharing this tucked-in puffin with us! 📸
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Waxwings are on the east coast! The last big irruption was in 2012-13 when appx 300 were in York alone! Will this happen again this year..?
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Sometimes seeing things from different angles just makes them all the more incredible! 😍😍😍
Thank you so much John H Brackenbury for this fantastic, unusual photo!
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Oops we made a mistake here!
Slugs and snails are good for some garden wildlife but NOT hedgehogs - please see advice from the amazing
@HedgehogCabin
, thank you everyone who corrected us 💚🦔
Slugs & snails are great! 🐌They're a top menu item for favourite garden guests like frogs, song thrushes, ground beetles, & hedgehogs.
Make friends with molluscs this spring & lets celebrate these unsung heroes. 👏
#WildaboutGardens
#wildlifegardening
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There's so much beauty in the detail 😍 A little reminder to take a second to pause, notice and enjoy!
📸 Michelle Coyle
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Are your old boots made for birding?! 😃
Love this pic shared on Facebook by Catherine Stacey 💚
#birding
#nestbox
#boots
#innovative
#homemade
#fun
#quirky
#reuse
#recycle
#wilderyorkshire
#wilderfuture
#naturefriendlyhousing
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So proud of our Wildlife Supporter Officer Pete Lau and all the fantastic work he does to champion accessibility in the outdoors, including on our Adel Dam reserve. Make sure to check out his website .
#Winterwatch
@bbc
#Winterwatch
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1. Have a routine
2. Get outdoors (or have plants inside if you cannot)
3. Exercise outside (so good for your mental health!)
4. Meet one person outdoors for a socially-distanced walk
5. Talk to each other
@DrAmirKhanGP
's top tips for coping with the second lockdown 🍃
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Wow! A young walrus visits Scarborough - these amazing, marine creatures travel long distances and deserve our admiration and respect.
Huge thanks to
@BdmlrYorksLincs
and local orgs for safety and checks on site while it has a rest🙌
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Caption competition?! 😂😂😂
We just love this photo by Nashira Corvidae of this perfectly posed family!
#captioncompetition
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A
#mole
on a mission at
@NorthCaveWet
!
Wait for the end... breakfast time! 🪱
(c) Paul Wray
#WildlifeWednesday
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As insect populations plummet we’re alarmed to learn that Government has agreed the use of highly damaging neonic pesticides, which are banned across Europe over concerns that they kill the pollinators we rely on for survival. Say no to neonics 👉 🐝
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Just...wow!
Thank you so much Sean Clayton for this breathtaking photo 📸
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We'd love to see more of these around! 🦔🦔🦔
This hedgehog awareness sign is at the University of York, who have put all sorts of things in place to help hedgehogs on their campus!
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Newborn fox cubs spend their first weeks in the cosy warmth of the den. As the weather gets milder they will soon be venturing out to play in the spring sunshine!
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It's coming to that magical time of year when you can see the birdsong 😍
Thank you Paul Lawson for this perfect photo of a tiny wren!
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Some lovely news from our team at Askham Bog - they've discovered their first harvest mouse nest on the reserve!
This nest will have been for a family, but the young leave home in August and they'll all make smaller nests for winter 🐁
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Monday already? 😴
Wishing you all a week as fabulous as this hare!
Thank you to Frances Crickmore for sharing this stunning photo with us 😍
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What a photo 😍 Did you know that a group of goldfinches is called a charm?
Thank you to
@grahampbannister
for the photo!
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Another successful seal release by the
@BDMLR
volunteers at Spurn National Nature Reserve. What a fantastic job you guys do in support of our Yorkshire wildlife! Thank you 😊
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After weeks of hot dry weather Yorkshire's hedgehogs are struggling to stay hydrated. This little fellow is being given plenty to drink at a hedgehog hospital in York. As the heatwave continues please leave some water at ground level in your garden so hedgehogs can reach it!
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What's that you say?
#Puffins
are returning to the
#Yorkshire
coast? Hip, hip hooray!
Top tip: Flamborough Cliffs nature reserve is one of the best places to watch puffins from on land in the entire country!
📷 Ray Hennessy
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First day back after the bank holiday be like... 🤣
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By'eck Yorkshire, you're beautiful! 😍
Being outdoors may ease feelings of anxiety & fears of
#socialdistancing
. Our nature reserves are here for you - today, tomorrow, next week or next month.
Together - with the help of nature - we'll get through this. 💚
📷 James Elkington.
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'Ey up, it's
#YorkshireDay
this Saturday, and we've got something rather exciting to share with you!
In the meantime, we'd love to know... what's your favourite Yorkshire view?
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'Tis the season for bonfires, and especially so this year with outdoor socialising being the only option for many of us 🔥 Make sure you check your wood piles for hogs snoozing! 🦔
Find out more about how to look after hedgehogs:
📷 Tom Marshall
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High Four it's Friday! 😂
Loving this brilliant, candid capture by Andrew Anderson Photography 💚
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There were four in the bed and the little one said ... wait for me!!!
Thanks to
@her_masters_canon
for sharing this great little video! 🦔
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Spurn point must be one of the most iconic stretches of our Yorkshire coastline - do you agree? 🌊 What's your favourite spot?
📸 David Nichols
#NationalMarineWeek
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As gardening season approaches, choose a natural lawn. Here's why 👉
Artificial lawn is a no entry sign for wildlife ⛔️
It pushes worms & insects out. Birds & hedgehogs suffer 😞
Flowers are food for bees 🌺🐝
UK gardens are a vast living landscape & refuge. Think wildlife!
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Marine life washed up on the Holderness Coast - an estimated 25,000 lobsters were transported to merchants tanks at Bridlington and released at sea this morning in deeper water.
#beastfromtheeast
#marinewashup
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The first
#EnvironmentBill
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📷Jon Hawkins
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Look what we saw feeding
@YWTLivingSeas
– wildlife is amazing! Anyone else had an unexpected visitor to their bird feeders?
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Sometimes you've just got to stop and smell the flowers 🌷🌼🌻🌹🌺
📷 Richard Ellis
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The roundest robin we ever did see!
Thanks to Kev Harper for capturing this rotund beauty 📸
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NEWS! Dearne Valley wildlife has been given special national protection by
@NaturalEngland
💚🦋🦆
Read our colleague Pete Wall's story here - a 20 year dream and turnaround for a once degraded landscape
(C) Norman Hearne
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Congratulations
@UniversityLeeds
for becoming a bronze accredited Hedgehog Friendly Campus. By educating staff & students & improving connectivity between greenspaces, this student lead initiative is helping hedgehogs to bounce back. Amazing work!
#hedgehogweek
🦔
(C)Tom Marshall
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What a beauty! Our photo of the day goes to this wonderful shot of a tawny owl :)
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We loved seeing our meeerl (as it's pronounced in East Yorkshire) on
#Winterwatch
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Our nature reserves assistant Paul Wray filmed the mole puttering through a very icy North Cave Wetlands reserve in November - it's also a great place to spot bitterns, waders and birds of prey!
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Sound up! 🔊 This is what healthy peatlands sound (and look like!). Wet, and very squelchy!
Most of our peatlands are dry and bare. Help us restore them:
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We have 60 breeding pairs of snow bunting in the UK (all in Scotland!). They're joined by 10,000-15,000 visiting birds from the arctic every winter❄️
Thanks to Roy Churchill for this beautiful photo 📸
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Did you see us on
@looknorthBBC
tonight?
These beautiful beasts are helping us to keep the sea buckthorn under control at Spurn, grazing for better habitat wearing NoFence collars.
Thanks
@BBCPaulMurphy
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We're thrilled to receive an incredible £237,400 from the Government's
#GreenRecoveryChallengeFund
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This funding will support projects in the Humber Estuary for two nationally important species: native oysters and dwarf seagrass. (1/3)
@DefraGovUK
@HeritageFundUK
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No wonder they call it God's Own County!
Stunning scenes from our Southerscales nature reserve in the Yorkshire Dales 🌥
📸
@oliversherrattlandscapes
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Murmuration magic from Ripon City Wetlands! 🤩
Are you planning a visit to see this amazing spectacle?
On-site parking closes at 5pm, but out of hours parking is available. More Info below 👇
Thank you
@umbellqueen
for this awe-inspiring video.
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For those of you who prefer birds to wildflowers... how about this quiz? Identify the birds from their colours ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Credit unknown - if you know who created this let us know and we'll add the credit! 😊
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We didn't know badgers could get the zoomies!
East Yorkshire Badger group sent us this trail cam footage of a couple of gambolling badgers on one of our east reserves - having a wonderful time!
#winterwatch
@BBCSpringwatch
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Scenes from our Potteric Carr visitor centre - what a great day at the office!
More here 💚
We're adding some magic to your Monday with this beautiful starling murmuration. ✨
📷Rich Sykes
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"Our new tea bags will be renewable and biodegradable and will use a plant-based material for sealing. It doesn’t have any effect on the tea’s flavour or its shelf life and won’t cost you any more to buy." 💚👊💚
@YorkshireTea
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Is it a bird, is it a plane... no it's a starling murmuration in the shape of a swan! 😮
Thanks to Pete Lau for this simply sensational shot at Ripon City Wetlands!
@YWT_North
@BBCSpringwatch
#Winterwatch
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Yorkshire's peatlands are our last, great, wild hope. But we're at risk of losing them forever.
Support us today and give peat a chance:
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A baby blue tit to start off your Sunday morning 💚💛💙 Have you seen any fledglings yet?
Thank you so much Dave Wesson for the photo!
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Puffin-tastic sightings at Filey Briggs! 🤩
📷Scarborough Porpoise
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Some more fledgling joy for you today! Can you identify the baby bird? 🐦
📷 Bev Clough
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Today is
#NationalStressAwarenessDay
. Spending time in nature can help us cope with life's difficulties, so why not try it this week :)
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Owl emergency rescue from tree nr our York base - wing tangled in line with nail at one end. Now with
@RSPCA_official
Hoping all's well
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Wow - what an incredible photo! 😍 A once-in-a-lifetime capture!
Thank you so much to Ivor Ringrose for sending this to us!
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Happy Valentine's Day! We're celebrating love of all kinds today so here's a little seal pup with its mum 💕🐋❤️
📷George Stoyle
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Wishing Sir David Attenborough a Happy 97th Birthday today! 🎉
Here he is with our Peat Programme Manager, Rosie during a visit to our Askham Bog nature reserve on the outskirts of York.
Such an inspiration to us all. ⭐️
Thank you for everything you do for wildlife! 👏💚
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Glorious Askham Bog is living up to its name – you’ll need your wellies – enjoy wintry scenes if you're in the area!
📸Mark Coates
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Go nuts! It's red squirrel week :) Now is the best time to see them foraging for winter food - they can be spotted in parts of the Dales.
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A little family of Yorkshire otters - two kits bravely swimming around with mum! 💦
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- This branch ain't big enough for the both of us!
- Shut up, I'm trying to watch
#Winterwatch
!
📷Debbie Drake at Adel Dam
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A sunny morning and one of the first bees of the year we've spotted! 🐝 Snowdrops are super important as an early flowering plant for bees - even more reason to love them poking through the winter ground! 🌱
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Corvids galore! We think the jay's relationship skills deserve a special mention: attentive males carefully observe their partners to determine which food they most desire (chocolate for us, please!)
📷Don Sutherland
#Winterwatch
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Isn't nature just beautiful? 😍
Thank you so much Josh Sherwin for the photo, taken in Wheldrake near York!
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"Ooooh, is that the weekend over there?"
Nothing beats the coast after a long week, and seals can be spotted all along
#Yorkshire
's! We're so lucky to have such beauty on our doorstep. 💚
Photo credit: John Peck.
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Stop scrolling and just look at him 😍😍😍
Thank you to Helen Coleman for this magnificent red deer photo.
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This seal looks like we do in the morning - peering into the mirror without our specs and sniffing out some toast!
Learn about Yorkshire's seal-life - and how to enjoy it safely - here:
#Winterwatch
📷Brian Matthews
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Sometimes you've just got to stop and smell the flowers... happy Easter everyone! ❤️🌼
📷 Richard Ellis
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“Askham Bog is a treasure that is irreplaceable" - Sir David Attenborough
This unique, much-loved and ecologically important nature reserve is once again under threat. Stand up with us to save it:
#SaveAskhamBog
(c) Tom Marshall
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Barn owl stealing supper from a kestrel! - thanks to Andrew O'Brien for this
#photooftheday
http://t.co/HSomnD4KeG
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Promising news for a Friday morning! 🎉
We're thrilled to hear that plans for a housing development next to Askham Bog have been recommended for refusal. We await the final decision of the council next week, but a hopeful step for this special place 💚
📷 Tom Marshall
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