Redstarts, Pied and Spotted Flycatchers - synonymous with mature and ancient woodlands are still with us but, as with many 'songbirds', in much reduced numbers. No point crying about it, that's just the way it is ...

Mid August, and as I pen this the sun is shining and the temparature outside is in the mid 20s. Hardly autumnal, and yet in the birding world it's already a time when many species are returning south to warmer climes after a hopefully suc...

Perhaps the most iconic, glamorous and sought after wild flowers, there are over 50 Orchid species growing wild in the UK with roughly half of these occurring Yorkshire, so we don't do too bad for them up here and June th...

I dug out the tent last week of June and took myself off to Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales, ostensibly to visit a YWT reserve that has been on my 'to visit' list for some time  - ...

There was much excitement amongst local birders when 2 Black Winged Stilts, a rare breeding bird in the UK, turned up at Yorkshire Wildlife Tr...

May, the month that always seems to see the greatest profusion of plant growth in the UK with seemingly new and different flowers sprouting nearly every day. Its difficult to keep up sometimes to be honest but I never tire of spotting the familiar...