Guest blog – Support the Zeiss Yorkshire Terriers

The Zeiss Yorkshire Terriers are: Mark Pearson, Filey-birder, blogger, speaker, wildlife guide, musician and team captain.       Rich Baines, former Flamborough stalwart, ecologist with Wold Ecology, co-owner and leader of Yorkshire Coast Nature, North York Moors Turtle Dove project manager.     Darren Woodhead, incredible bird artist – need we say more?!  …

Guy Shorrock – Plastic Perils and Penguins

Guy writes: This is perhaps not the most appealing image but I believe the ability of photographs to convey meaningful messages is their most important value. Recently, there has been huge concern being expressed about the levels of plastic polluting our oceans with an estimated eight million tonnes being dumped annually. The effects range from…

Wild food (28) – Navelwort by Ian Carter

This distinctive member of the stonecrop family is common along hedgerows, pathways and springing up from crevices in walls and rocks. It is mainly restricted to the south and west, and seems to be especially abundant close to the sea – the long-distance south-west coast path is a great place to find it. If conditions…

Sunday book review – A Wild Life by Anthony Milbank

  Sir Anthony Milbank who passed away in 2016 was a lovely man whose family’s grouse moor is at Barningham on the North Yorkshire/Durham border.  He started this project, a photographic record of the impressive wildlife of his grouse moor, and the book was completed by the family after his passing.  The words are by…

Tim Melling – Red Panda

If you search Red Panda for images on the internet almost all are captive “zoo” animals.  So it would appear that photos of genuine Red Pandas taken in the wild are pretty rare. The Red Panda has been classified as endangered by IUCN since 2008 because there are fewer than 10,000 mature individuals and the…