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Advocates for nature in the Gill Beck Valley Baildon/Hawksworth, West Yorkshire
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Wood pasture at the top of Spring Wood in the valley between Baildon and Hawksworth. The cows really like to get in there when it's hot but also when it's wet and windy

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Several trees in the valley have suffered 'summer branch drop' in the last couple of weeks. Oak and Sycamore. This is often associated with abnormally warm, dry weather

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Confluence of Gill Beck and the river Aire. A bit short on water but nonetheless lovely today with Brimstone butterfly, Banded Demoiselle and lots of Mayflies on the wing

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Eggs of freshwater limpets... Also from the confluence of Gill Beck and Aire

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Absolutely gazillions of baby leeches in our invertebrate count at the mouth of the Gill Beck today. There are 17 species of leeches in the UK... We have seen at least two in the beck

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Grasshopper Warbler singing from this brambly streamside on Hollins Hall this evening. Also a thumping great bat cruising over which I presume may be a Noctule

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A new plant for the valley: Fringecups. These have sneaked in amongst the wild garlic in deep shade on the banks of the beck adjacent to the confluence with the Aire. Not a UK native but quite widespread

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Chance of an aurora tonight too. Scoter, toads and dancing lights

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This afternoon there was a huge seething toad ball just on the ground by the path at Tong Park

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Thousands of Scoter pouring East over north Leeds tonight. Hundreds of toads spawning.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Oof😬 more projects needing some work

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Our upstream-est sampling site at Tong Park Viaduct

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First session of invertebrate sampling in the Gill Beck for this year. Still some life in there then! These are stream mayfly larvae. Thousands of 'em!

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rptu.de/en/newsroom/...

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Home time for the Whoopers 🥲 Beautiful cross country track under the cover of darkness for this one last night! Nene Washes to Keilder Water, Northumberland in 4 hours. #Ornithology

submitted 109 days ago • 7 comments

A flock of @15 Whoopers over last night. Tootling north over Guiseley. Illuminated from below by streetlights as they went over the ridge. Magic

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www.theguardian.com/environment/... Profound and worrying. If it's happening in the Amazon, you can bet it's a background factor here too.

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For anyone who follows us for Gill Beck news and gets economics. Truth is every time you dig down into a real, local envtl issue you ultimately find economics. Every time a govt service is cut coz 'we don't have the money' it's never true. May be other valid reasons but it's never lack of money.

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