Dead man's fingers
These gruesome sounding creatures are actually a type of coral! They get their name as they branch out into lobes as they grow - making them look like fingers on a hand.
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Stirley
Once an intensively grazed dairy farm, Stirley is now an inspiring showcase for conservation grazing methods and a place to enjoy nature’s sights and sounds.
Devil’s fingers fungus
This smelly, strange looking fungus is also referred to as octopus stinkhorn or octopus fungus. Its eye-catching red tentacles splay out like a starfish.
Welcome to Stirley Farm
Livestock Assistant Maz explains about the history of Stirley Farm.
Welcome to Stirley, Huddersfield
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's Stirley nature reserve is an inspirational place in West Yorkshire, bringing back wildlife to our landscapes and working with local people to achieve healthy living and a healthy environment.
Members' Wild Ramble: Stirley
Member exclusive events - Join us for a member-exclusive ramble and delve further into our Stirley nature reserve.
Events & Engagement Volunteer - Stirley
Nature is amazing and we want to tell everyone! Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is creating a county rich in wildlife and we need passionate, inspiring volunteers to help people to develop a connection…
Devastating news for bees as Government reverses neonicotinoids ban
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is alarmed to learn the Government has agreed the use of a highly damaging pesticide - neonicotinoid thiamethoxam - for the treatment of sugar beet seed in response to…
Make hay whilst the sun shines
Creating new wildflower-rich grassland at Parson’s Carr, thanks to funding by the LNER Customer and Community Investment Fund and Countryside Stewardship agri-environment funding.
Adventures in the summer sun (when it finally comes!)
It’s time to let our eyes take in the glorious colours of verdant hedgerows, and let the warmer days inspire us to get out and enjoy the best of what Yorkshire has to offer.
Weedy winners for your garden!
It has been drummed into so many of us that some plants are bad news – they’re unsightly, dangerous to other plants, and if you see any creeping into your garden you should immediately pull them…
Waxwing winters
Every winter, millions of birds travel to the UK to escape the harsher weather that sets in at their breeding grounds. Families of whooper swans fly down from Iceland, thrushes and finches flee…