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BBC Springwatch retweeted
"Hey, did you know that's nearly the end of #Springwatch?"
"Who?"
"I said - that's the end of Springwatch!"
"Well, how are we supposed to enjoy the best of our regional wildlife now?"
"I suppose we could follow Yorkshire Wildlife Trust on here..."
"...Who?"
📷Russell Savory
BBC Springwatch retweeted
What better way to end this year's #Springwatch than with the marvellous Marsh Fritillary 🤩
📷: Mark Searle
#SaveButterflies @BBCSpringwatch
ALT Orange and brown patterned Marsh Fritillary butterfly resting on a green leaf
BBC Springwatch retweeted
These iconic butterflies can be seen flying between May and June in damp or chalk grasslands where they lay large batches of eggs on their food plant, Devil’s-bit Scabious. 🌼
The larvae spin conspicuous webs that can easily be recorded in late summer. 🐛 #Springwatch
ALT A web on a leaf full of tiny black caterpillars
BBC Springwatch retweeted
The Marsh Fritillary was once widespread but has declined severely over the last century, and is now threatened, not only in the UK, but across Europe. #Springwatch
📷: Mark Searle
ALT Two Marsh Fritillary butterflies mating on a plant stem
BBC Springwatch retweeted
You heard the lovely @MeganMcCubbin, knock on your neighbours door and chat about installing a hedgehog highway as an activity for #30DaysWild
@springwatch #springwatch
📽️Stuart Edmunds
BBC Springwatch retweeted
We love a pine marten - although this unexpected visitor to Spurn Point last year (not exactly a pine marten magnet) left us scratching our heads!
Along with our friends from @NatureSpy, we realised ours came from Dalby Forest - 60 miles away!
#Springwatch
📷Karen Dore
BBC Springwatch retweeted
This goshwak has us shaking in our boots 🫠
Known as the phantom of the forest, goshawks can fly through the trees at up 40km per hour as they hunt birds and small mammals! 🙃
#Springwatch @BBCSpringwatch
BBC Springwatch retweeted
Well, good golly gosh(awk)!
If you fancy an opportunity to enjoy these amazing birds of prey whizzing past, our Ellerburn Bank nature reserve on the edge of the North York Moors is a prime location! (With some pretty good views to boot)
#Springwatch
📷Pete Richman
BBC Springwatch retweeted
DAY THREE mural update. I’ve had another fantastic day painting my #wildlife mural at #Arne for @BBCSpringwatch 🎨 🖌️
Looking much more colourful now. Still have lots left to do tomorrow!
You’ll be able to watch me LIVE painting on BBCiPlayer from 11am.
BBC Springwatch retweeted
Macromarvellous! Sometimes it really is the little things... check out these amazingly beautiful moths and butterflies!
Yorkshire is actually home to 2/3 of our butterflies and macro-moths - so many colourful gems to spot out and about if you look closely.
#Springwatch
ALT Dark-bordered beauty moth
ALT Purple hairstreak butterfly
ALT Forester moth
ALT Peppered moth
BBC Springwatch retweeted
DAY FOUR 🎨 🖌️
Back at #Arne painting my wildlife mural for @BBCSpringwatch
Lots left to complete by the end of today! I love it when it all starts to come together. You can see my completed mural on tonight’s @BBCSpringwatch on BBC2 8pm.
#PurbeckMasonWasp #Springwatch
BBC Springwatch retweeted
Okay we can’t kelp it, we’re going to talk carbon sequestration. Kelp absorbs CO2 whilst it grows – up to 600 million tonnes every year, which is more than double the number of emissions produced by the UK each year.
#Springwatch @BBCSpringwatch
BBC Springwatch retweeted
Caught red-handed by the Puffarazzi!
If you want to give Yorkshire's puffin population a hand, why not download our Puffin Protector Pack?
Come along to Flamborough Cliffs every Sunday until 21st July, and our volunteers will even help you spot one!
#Springwatch
📷Mike Snelle
BBC Springwatch retweeted
When your Mum says you can only have one biscuit from the tin, but you have other ideas...
#Springwatch @BBCSpringwatch
BBC Springwatch retweeted
These are two seriously hardcore rockers!
We are incredibly lucky to have breeding little terns at our Spurn Point nature reserve - even more hardcore, as they nest on a spit of land sticking into the Humber which turns into an island? (Rock on!)
#Springwatch
📷Margaret Holland
BBC Springwatch retweeted
Lovely footage of the little terns. Have you heard the good news at @WWTWashington ? The common terns have returned and their numbers are steadily increasing!
You can find out more here: rb.gy/sxxsrs
#Springwatch @BBCSpringwatch
BBC Springwatch retweeted
I'm not 'little', I'm fun-sized!
(What's that you were saying about my piercing stare?)
#Springwatch
📷Jon Traill
BBC Springwatch retweeted
Small, angry looking, and also very good at posing like creepy statues 🦉
#Springwatch @BBCSpringwatch
BBC Springwatch retweeted
Are you tuning into #Springwatch? Keep an eye out for the beavers in Purbeck. They are doing a very important job of reshaping the woodland, creating a more diverse habitat for other species.
BBC Springwatch retweeted
When you tried to have a quick nap after work and are now unsure what day it is or why your hair looks like a baby barn owl….must be time for Springwatch!
#Springwatch @BBCSpringwatch
