Vole Patrol is back! We gathered on Tuesday 6th to set up, trying to put traps in exactly the same places as before. We provided free food and bedding for three days (although some were inclined to bring their own bedding, fallen leaves apparently being more desirable than straw). Then we started trapping, visiting at […]
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Almost the first plant we saw on our “wildflowers of Malham Tarn” walk was sweet cicely (Myrrhis odorata). This is a handsome umbellifer with fern-like leaves. There are of course many umbellifers, some of which – such as hemlock and hemlock water dropwort – are poisonous, so you need to be sure of your identification.
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Here are all the class winners from last month’s summer show: 2016 summer show class winners Congratulations to them all. If you’ve never entered a show before, and are wondering whether or not to have a go at the autumn show on 3 September, just go for it! Although some classes had many entrants (especially the
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The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust is holding a Flowers of the Dales Festival until the end of October, with over 120 events celebrating the wildflowers of the Dales. We recently went along to a walk exploring the flowers of Malham Tarn, led by the National Trust. This took in two types of ecosystem: limestone
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The screaming of swifts is a sound that says summer is coming. They usually arrive at the beginning of May, and I start listening out for them eagerly. It’s a magical sound. They were a little late this year, due to an over-abundance of winds from the North in May, but they are here in
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