Category: Nature

Articles and posts about the natural environment.

Environment Group – Top Tip

The People’s Emergency Briefing Hosted by Climate Action Skipton on the 6th May 7-9pm, St Stephen’s Church Hall, Skipton, BD23 1NT A 45 minute film designed to help people understand the scale […]

Holme Grown Eastby – Spring Newsletter

One of our new initiatives this season, is to keep our supporters informed of things on site through quarterly newsletters. This one being our very first. Our volunteers gain so much on […]

EwE Environmental Action Group

Many Environmental Groups are joining together to campaign ahead of the Water Reform Bill. If you saw the programme “Dirty Business” on television and were horrified, like me, on how the water […]

EwE Nature Reserve

Springtime in the Nature Reserve Here are some of the things to look out for this Springtime in the Nature Reserve:

Nature Notes

Walking past the tannery dam yesterday I spotted a male and female goosander swimming along with the usual mallards and disappearing from time to time as they dived under the water in search […]

Nature Notes

It was another damp and misty day but we wrapped up well and braved the elements on a walk up to the reservoir. We could barely see the crag. However, on this […]

Plastic Tree Guards Project

Join in with this new citizen science project set up by the ‘Forest Plastics Working Group’ to build a UK wide map of where plastic tree guards are within the environment. Tree […]

RSPB Garden Bird Survey

We have been watching the birds in our garden and helping them survive the winter by making sure they have water and sustaining food. A great variety have come down to our […]

Nature Notes – Fantastic Fungi

We have been experiencing a wonderful autumn with the splendid colours of the trees changing over the weeks. It’s one of my favourite times of the year. I’ve also loved the amazing […]

Butterflies, Caterpillars & Nettles At Embsay Reservoir

Every week since April we have been recording butterflies at Embsay reservoir as part of the UKBMS (UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme).   The survey starts with week 1 on the 1st of […]