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The frozen swirls of puddles clearly showing individual pockets of bubbles created a swirling ice sculpture!

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3 days 5 hours ago

The patterns in the ice on local flooded fields were just stunning!

The underlying plants creating the most beautiful and delicate tactile images,

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Hoarfrost or rime ice? The beautiful ice crystals on the grass is formed as a hoarfrost on this occasion. Hoarfrost forms when water vapor in the air condenses on cold surfaces on clear, windless nights. The hoarfrost crystals freeze directly from the vapor state and do not turn into liquid

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1 week 3 days ago

Many insects benefit your garden, such as ladybirds and bees, which hibernate through the Winter. They like to crawl into warm and dry spaces in the Autumn and stay there until Spring. You don't need to spend a fortune buying one although they can make quite a garden art feature.

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Was 2024 a mast year? It certainly seems that way. Mast is the production of an enormous number of seeds, this can be seen not only in ‘traditional’ trees like beech and oak, but also monkey puzzle trees, certain pines and spruces. In fact, mast years occur in species from

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Hazel has a reputation as a magical tree. A hazel rod is supposed to protect against evil spirits, as well as being used as a wand and for water-divining. In some parts of England, hazelnuts were carried as charms and held to ward off rheumatism. In Ireland, hazel was known

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If you like or follow our Facebook page please consider joining us to support our beautiful South Holderness Countryside! We would love you to renew - or if your membership lapsed please consider joining us again 🥰 Or perhaps gift a membership for 2025! Check out our website for easy

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2 weeks 5 days ago

Our beautiful 2025 calendar is now ready to buy! For just £5 (plus postage if required) this A5 full colour 13 month calendar is available for collection from committee members. Drop us a message if you would like one saving as we only have a few left from our initial

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Ivy is a common and widespread plant in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It can be found in many habitats, including woodland, scrub, wasteland, and on isolated trees. Only mature plants produce flowers. They are yellowish green and appear in small, dome-shaped clusters known as umbels. Nectar, pollen and berries

Spurn Bird Observatory
http://www.spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/

Birds of the Hull Area
https://sites.google.com/site/birdsofthehullarea/

Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union
http://www.ynu.org.uk/

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
http://www.ywt.org.uk/

Hull Natural History Society
http://www.hullnats.org.uk
For footpath guides, CROW Open Access land maps and Natural England’s Nature spot sites use links in the Hull Natural History Society site.

Yorkshire Coast Nature
http://yorkshirecoastnature.co.uk/

For residential and birding and botanical tours, safaris, workshops, lectures and talks, and wildlife photography courses, visit the Yorkshire Coast Nature site. The British Hedgehog Preservation Society
http://www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/

The National Plant Atlas
plantatlas2020.org.uk

NEYEDC – The Natural History of Yorkshire in 100 species
https://www.neyedc.org.uk/100-species