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Tag Archives: Wakefield Naturalists
June field meeting: High Batts visit
Eight members met at High Batts nature reserve near Ripon for the June field meeting. The reserve is a private reserve managed by the members and is am excellent small reserve alongside the river Ure nestled deep within private land … Continue reading
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Tagged black-tailed skimmer, dragonflies, High Batts, Wakefield Naturalists
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Wildflowers of St Aiden’s RSPB reserve
Instead of ‘birding’ our group were looking at the huge variety of wildflowers now establishing in this relatively new RSPB nature park. Just looking around the edge of car park area we saw bristly ox-tongue, cut leaved cranesbill, spotted medick, … Continue reading
Sightings from Woolley Colliery
I had a quick trip down to Haig yesterday. Despite my efforts earlier in the year, it is getting pretty overgrown. It is full of singing blackcap; willow, sedge, and reed warblers, reed buntings and a load of bird song I … Continue reading
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Tagged Haig, large red damselfly, Wakefield Naturalists, Wakefield wildlife
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Excitement at Altofts
A lot of fuss in the sky attracted my attention and there were four lapwings mobbing a red kite! (And it was on the Wakefield side of the M62,- tho’ only just!). I also heard skylark singing, saw a small tortoiseshell, … Continue reading
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Tagged Altofts, nature in Wakefield, red kite in Wakefield, Wakefield Naturalists, Wakefield wildlife
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The weekend’s snow in Wrenthorpe
My last report of finding wildflowers on 4th January this year all seems even more remarkable now following the recent snow. I attach a photo of our Wrenthorpe garden taken yesterday 17 January 2016. It reminded me of a similar … Continue reading
Garden birdwatch: Wrenthorpe sparrowhawk
How exiting can a bleary-eyed glimpse out of the upstairs windows be on a grey and grim morning at the end of February. Usually not at all, but this morning was different when I slowly focused on a sparrowhawk perched … Continue reading