Posted: Monday 10th September 2012 by WildlifeSightings
Speckled Wood - Credit Alan Brown
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3rd September
YWT Spurn - We were at Spurn Head last Monday and as we were walking back along the road we came across a caterpillar that I subsequently identified as a bedstraw hawkmoth caterpillar. Click here to see a photo on Flickr.
Wendy North
4th September
Follifoot - Three red kites close to Follifoot village. So graceful!
Susan Turner, via Twitter @gazaniagal
8th September
YWT Askham Bog - After a disappointing Summer for butterflies it has been good to see a fair number of speckled woods on recent sunny days. I've not noticed them there in previous years.
Alan Brown
8th September
Whitby - Here you can see some great photos taken on a day out on Yorkshire's Living Seas. Highlights include a inke whale spotted, 3 miles off Whitby and a pomerine skua off Flamborough Head.
Ant Hurd, YWT Living Seas Centre Officer
9th September
North York Moors National Park - Round leaved sundew on Wheeldale Moor pic.twitter.com/wMaD0ZK5
Gareth Hardware, via Twitter @garethhardware
14th September
Weatherby - 5 goldfinches & 1 male siskin just arrived at the feeders. First nuthatch ever yesterday - lived here 20 years!!
Susan Turner, via Twitter @gazaniagal
17th September
YWT Potteric Carr - Sighting of hobby, peregrin and marsh harrier today over Huxter Well Marsh
Kat Woolley, YWT Inspiring People Assistant via Facebook
18th September
YWT Spurn - Juvenile black kite this morning, landing on the wires by The Warren, then flew north.
YWT Potteric Carr - Garganey and three black-necked grebes.
Jono Leadley, YWT Director of Development via Facebook
18th September
YWT North Cliffe Wood - Dragonflies: Migrant hawkers, emerald damselflies, common darters, black darters and ruddy darters. Butterflies: Speckled woods, red admirals, commas, small coppers and one green veined white. Also common groundhopper, field grasshopper, and birch shield bug.
Paul Ashton, shared his blog via Facebook
19th September
YWT Allerthorpe Common - Dragonflies: Common darters, emerald damselflies, black darters, ruddy darters and migrant hawkers. Butterflies: One female brimstone, two speckled woods and a single small copper. Grasshoppers including meadow grasshoppers and field grasshopppers. Shieldbugs: Birch shieldbug, spiked shield bug, gorse shield bug, and common green shieldbug.
Paul Ashton, shared his blog via Facebook
19th September
YWT Askham Bog - A lovely little treecreeper at Askham Bog this afternoon, plenty of activity today despite the chill! A large mixed flock of marsh tits, long-tailed yits, blue tits and great tits were forming near the entrance. Still a southerrn hawker patrolling the boardwalk and still a couple of chiffchaffs hanging around.
Tim Brook, via Facebook
23rd September
Weatherby - Bank vole in garden now - oh so cute !!! Eating sunflower hearts that the many goldfinches have discarded below the feeders.
Susan Turner, via Twitter @gazaniagal
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Great photo of the caterpillar Wendy but I'll pass on having one in 'my' bedstraw thanks !
Tuesday 11th September 2012
by Mal Jones