Sunny spring afternoon at Wheldrake Ings. Slavonian grebe was the highlight, with reed warbler and whitethroat new for the years and willow warblers everywhere. Also some butterflies: orange-tip, green-veined white and holly (I think) blue York Birding Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Views are better from Swantail Hide and path is clear today York Birding Yorkshire Wildlife Trust BirdGuides

Three cropped phone-scoped pics of some of the star birds on my first trip to RSPB Frampton Marsh 🌍 - lesser yellowlegs, red breasted goose (lifer) and a black tern having a nice sit down. Also little gulls, black winged stilt, greenshank, spotted redshank... What a place.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation response to the Prime Minister's speech - Iain Porter said:

🗣️'This is an irresponsible war of words on people who already aren’t getting enough support, which the Government would rather not talk about. 1/4

Had a brilliant tour with Harry's Birds & Wildlife at Spurn today - thanks Harry and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust team! Black brant was a new bird for me - very smart one too

Think the Merlin app is having one of those days. It told my mum she had a black crowned night heron over her garden, and outlandishly claimed a long tailed duck on my lunchtime dog walk - actually an approaching van. Both in Bishopthorpe York Birding

Hundreds of these shiny little beetles around our street today. I think they're alder leaf beetles but very happy to be corrected.

Now two drake scaup and one female from Garganey Hide at.North Duffield. Haven't relocated the American wigeon yet. Apparently it flew out of sight just before I got here, some time between 4 and 4.30. Also 2 ruff, 1 black tailed godwit and 1 dunlin York Birding

Special guest on the washing line.

A spoonbill feeding at Lin Dike, RSPB Fairburn Ings and RSPB St Aidan’s Fairburn Ings, yesterday evening, and some golden-hour sunlight catching the reedbeds, all in the lovely company of The Considerate Birders

Didn't expect to see a little egret on Foss Islands this morning. York Birding

With some severe cropping, this photo of a furtive short eared owl at RSPB Bempton Cliffs that I took on Tuesday is actually not too bad.

Thanks BHMA for sharing this piece I wrote a few years ago. I haven't written much about this myself for a few months so maybe it's time I did!

In the last four or five years, I’ve noticed a growing number of people talking and writing about the benefits of nature for mental health.

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Thanks @paulbrook76 🙏