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The Hull City Nature Challenge is running until midnight tonight! 🤩 We've already recorded a fantastic 4,845 observations of 996 species - can you help us add to this today? If you live in Hull, you can record anywhere via iNaturalist ☘️ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The The Rivers Trust Big River Watch is now running and will finish on the 1st May - anyone can take part in their two week-long citizen science surveys to help build a picture of river health 🌊Find out how to take part here: theriverstrust.org/take-action/th…

Recording for the Hull CNC has now ended, but you can still submit observations made from the 25th - 28th & help verify records! In our iNaturalist project uk.inaturalist.org/projects/city-… select an observation you recognise that isn't already Research Grade, and Agree or add your ID 🪲

Our team have been working late this week GPS-tagging and colour-ringing Whimbrel as part of our long-running project looking at their use of the #LDV and surrounding feeding areas. Thanks as always to our great team for all the extra hours put in collecting this valuable data.

A topical #YorkshireIn100Species blog this week for the spring-time, a group of our most common (and potentially overlooked) flowers - Dandelions! Anne Readshaw, Chair of Yoredale Natural History Society, shares why they deserve a spot on our 100: neyedc.org.uk/100-species/20… ☀️

The Lincs Chalk Streams Project have made a very exciting discovery in our area as part of their Natural England Species Recovery Programme project to protect the rare crystal moss animal (Lophopus crystallinus) - a new record for the River Foss! lincolnshirechalkstreams.org/speciesrecover…

The Hull City Nature Challenge 2025 is now over, and we've had a truly fantastic year, with more species, more observations, and more recorders joining us for this exciting global bioblitz event 👏 Click through to read all about our 2025 results: neyedc.org.uk/updates-insigh…

We had a fantastic record submitted to us this week by David and Sarah Goddard of a Green Hairstreak butterfly, recorded on Fylingdales Moor. What a beauty! 🦋

Just a few days left to book! This fascinating web symposium kindly hosted by Keiron Derek Brown next Fri 16th May will explore how biological recording is undertaken at varied geographic scales eventbrite.co.uk/e/biological-r…

On 30th - 31st May Kilnsey Park Estate in Wharfedale are holding a bioblitz, seeking to record the flora and fauna across the estate to help inform nature recovery 🪲 All are welcome; beginner or expert! Events/activities to be announced: neyedc.org.uk/c2n

Last week we organised a UK Hab training session for our Local Wildlife Site surveyors, led by Laurie Wildwood, getting them up to speed with using the habitat mapping methodology ahead of the 2025 survey season. We visited Allerthorpe Common to put skills into practice 🗺️

Today's #YorkshireIn100Species blog features one of our iconic & best-loved mammals, the Badger! Kerry Metcalfe, a forestry consultant, recorder, and survey volunteer shares her insights into this lovely species - complete with some must-see videos! 🦡neyedc.org.uk/100-species/20…

Brilliant morning attending this year's NFBR conference: Biological Recording: Local to National. Four very inspiring & informative talks featuring case studies of recording at different scales & how these interact. Thanks to BTO JNCC Chilterns National Landscape & Brecknock Moth Group!

As a LERC, we get lots of valuable records sent to us - but it's not often a species we've never heard of! We were delighted to be contacted by the Lincs Chalk Streams Project recently regarding their work, and an exciting new record for our area! 🌊neyedc.org.uk/updates-insigh…

It's #WorldBeeDay! We hold over 25,000 records of 230+ species of bee in our database #DidYouKnow that most of our bee species in the UK are solitary bees? The Honey Bee and Bumblebees only make up a very small number of species compared to overall number found in the UK 🐝

Our Map of the Month for May shows the coverage of research-grade records that we collected this year as part of the Hull City Nature Challenge, with comparison maps for previous years of the event 📍 neyedc.org.uk/updates-insigh…

We took a trip up to Kilnsey Park this past weekend in preparation for the Kilnsey Park Bioblitz, which runs from this Friday at 16:00 to Saturday at 16:00!🔎 All are welcome to join us to record wildlife at this beautiful site & its surrounds! neyedc.org.uk/c2n

We have the beautiful alpine plant Purple Saxifrage featured as today's instalment (#85!) of #YorkshireIn100Species, brought to us by Ann Cripps, an amateur botanist and member of Wharfedale Naturalists: neyedc.org.uk/100-species/20… 🏔️🌸

We're nearing the end of the recording period for the Kilnsey Park Bioblitz and we've collected some brilliant records so far: uk.inaturalist.org/projects/kilns… We've joined experts on bat walks and insect walks, opened moth traps, inspected mosses and lichens, sampled rivers, and more 🪲

Amongst all the wonderful wildlife recorded during our bioblitz at Kilnsey Park Estate over the weekend, we were lucky enough to see the stunning Lady's Slipper Orchid in flower on Kilnsey Flushes. What a beauty! #wildflowerhour #OrchidChallenge