We love bats! 🦇 They are our Priority Species of the Month 👇

#WaterfallWednesday ! 💦 #Gayle Beck flows through Gayle and #Hawes and meets up with the River #Ure . Who's stood on the bridge to watch it?

The stream has a fair force of water and has been used to power several mills, including Gayle Mill.

📸 Wendy McDonnell

Great news! 16 of the 17 tagged curlew are now safely back on their breeding grounds in the #YorkshireDales . We wish them all a successful breeding season 🤞

Read all about the project 👇

yorkshiredales.org.uk/about/wildlife…

Bolton Castle Curlew Recovery Partnership Curlew Action BTO

#Job #Vacancies 👇

➡️ Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) Officer (closes 29 April)
➡️ Yorkshire Three Peaks Ranger post (closes 1 May)
➡️ Engagement, Health and Wellbeing Officer (closes 12 May)
➡️ Woodland Creation Officer (closes 19 May)

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Support our partners YDMT and double your donations for the #GreenFutures campaign 💚 The scheme can help young people into training and employment in the environment sector 👇

Have you seen an Adder in the #YorkshireDales ? If so, please let us know! We know little of their status and distribution in the Park due to limited records.

Please send details of any sightings to [email protected]

Amphibian and Reptile Conservation

📸 Whitfield Benson

This picture of #Settle Green was shared with us by photographer Alec Scott. Do you recognise it?

Would you like to see more photographs of our #YorkshireDales towns and villages?

Find out more about visiting them on our website 👇

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📸 Alec Scott

Ian from our #YorkshireDales #NationalPark Wildlife Team and Hill Top Farm discuss the pressures on #Curlew and how we can help 🙏

Play your part by reducing disturbance to their nests; stick to footpaths and keep dogs on leads during nesting from now until the end of July.

The theme for #EarthDay is Planet vs. Plastics.

Through @woodlandtrust's ‘Grow Back Greener’ scheme we've been trialling tree protection to replace plastic tree guards; linen guards, recycled guards, and in some cases, no guards at all (deer fences).

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It's #WorldEarthDay 💚 Trees and woodlands can absorb and lock up carbon, provide us with energy, stabilise soils, offer shade and protection, and create havens for wildlife and people - trees are heroes 🌳

How we protect trees and create new woodland 👇

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A peek into a day in the life of a Curlew tending her nest on farmland in the @ForestofBowland National Landscape.

Special thanks to RSPB volunteer Annie Shadrake for capturing and sharing this fantastic footage.

Credit | RSPB & @Annie_Shadrake

#WorldCurlewDay

Today's Top Trumps card tells us about the captivating #Curlew on #WorldCurlewDay 🧡

The Curlew is an iconic bird, celebrated in art, sculpture, photography, poetry and literature throughout the ages, the oldest known poem to mention curlews, 'The Seafarer' dates back to 1000AD!

Can you guess which bird our #YorkshireDales #NationalPark Wildlife Officer, Ian is describing? Watch to the end to see the answer. Spoiler alert 🚨 the answer is also in the caption below! 👇

WildlifeDales Friends of the Dales Curlew Action I #WorldCurlewDay #Curlew

It's #WorldCurlewDay 💚 The #YorkshireDales remain an important stronghold and are increasingly important for this enigmatic species.

As we help protect these wonderful birds, we use World Curlew Day as a chance to shout from the rooftops about the Curlew!

📸 Paul Fowlie

Which popular ground nesting bird? 🤔

🔊 Listen to Leigh (farmer Hill Top Farm in #Malham ) and our #YorkshireDales #NationalPark #Wildlife Officer, Ian discuss their thoughts on this special bird.

Friends of the Dales I #Yorkshiredales #Conservation #WorldCurlewDay

#YorkshireDales ground-nesting birds; today's Top Trump card tells us about #Snipe .

Have you heard the strange ‘drumming’ sound that first indicates that snipes are present?

Take care around ground-nesting birds, and keep your doggy friends on a lead to avoid disturbing them 🙏

We're kicking off the weekend in the #YorkshireDales with this fantastic image of #Ribblehead Viaduct, taken at sunset a few weeks back by Walking Man Photography 🙏

The Viaduct has 24 massive stone arches which tower over the moor at 104 feet (32 metres).

#BattyMoss #Ribblehead Viaduct

NEW! ‘Swaledale Farmer’ - final episodes 5 and 6 of the Dales Countryside Museum's Voices From The Dales podcast are now available.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or via the Dales Countryside Museum website 👇

dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk/explore/explor…

#Swaledale #TeesSwale #YorkshireDales

Good news! 👇

Top Trumps! Today's card tells us about the Skylark, which can be found in open grassland habitats in the Dales on the moor tops down to the valley bottoms #Dales 🧡

Beware of ground-nesting birds which are susceptible to disturbance during the nesting period 🙏

📸 Paul Fowlie