David Renwick
@daverenwick.bsky.social
Regional Director North of England Natural England, Board member Nature North & Derbyshire Wildlife Trust. ex Heritage Fund North, North York Moors NP. Views mine. 💚
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Let's explain rocks by sandwiches. Trust me. Earth builds rock three main ways: it stacks, it cools from melt, or it presses and reheats what it already made. #Geology 🧵
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Let's explain rocks by sandwiches. Trust me. Earth builds rock three main ways: it stacks, it cools from melt, or it presses and reheats what it already made. #Geology 🧵
This kind of day today! 🌧🌤🌈
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This kind of day today! 🌧🌤🌈
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Can you find a flowering member of the Gentian family or Gentianaceae, that’s the challenge this week. Post your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #GentianFamily. Happy flower hunting!
August 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Can you find a flowering member of the Gentian family or Gentianaceae, that’s the challenge this week. Post your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #GentianFamily. Happy flower hunting!
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Read about @yorkswildlife.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social’s exciting Wild Ingleborough! A landscape scale conservation project. I was lucky to visit the nursery where wildflowers are being propagated in their thousands 💞 www.wildway.info/p/wild-ingle...
Wild Ingleborough's upland plant nursery
Set within Yorkshire's stunning uplands, conservationists and volunteers help to restore a wild landscape
www.wildway.info
August 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Read about @yorkswildlife.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social’s exciting Wild Ingleborough! A landscape scale conservation project. I was lucky to visit the nursery where wildflowers are being propagated in their thousands 💞 www.wildway.info/p/wild-ingle...
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A dead nettle that's not a Dead Nettle for #WildflowerHour - Fen Nettle - Urtica dioica subsp. galeopsifolia.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A dead nettle that's not a Dead Nettle for #WildflowerHour - Fen Nettle - Urtica dioica subsp. galeopsifolia.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Fen Creation Workshop, 8th August 10am - 1pm
Suitable for conservation practitioners, students and volunteers, this free workshop explores fen creation on a sand and gravel quarry
For more information, see the link below:
www.luct.org.uk/events-1/20...
Suitable for conservation practitioners, students and volunteers, this free workshop explores fen creation on a sand and gravel quarry
For more information, see the link below:
www.luct.org.uk/events-1/20...
July 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Fen Creation Workshop, 8th August 10am - 1pm
Suitable for conservation practitioners, students and volunteers, this free workshop explores fen creation on a sand and gravel quarry
For more information, see the link below:
www.luct.org.uk/events-1/20...
Suitable for conservation practitioners, students and volunteers, this free workshop explores fen creation on a sand and gravel quarry
For more information, see the link below:
www.luct.org.uk/events-1/20...
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A public consultation for the draft North Yorkshire & York Local Nature Recovery Strategy is now running until 11 August. And there are a number of events for Dales-based land managers and farmers. Find out more 👇
www.northyorks.gov.uk/environment-...
#YorkshireDales #LNRS #NatureRecovery
www.northyorks.gov.uk/environment-...
#YorkshireDales #LNRS #NatureRecovery
July 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A public consultation for the draft North Yorkshire & York Local Nature Recovery Strategy is now running until 11 August. And there are a number of events for Dales-based land managers and farmers. Find out more 👇
www.northyorks.gov.uk/environment-...
#YorkshireDales #LNRS #NatureRecovery
www.northyorks.gov.uk/environment-...
#YorkshireDales #LNRS #NatureRecovery
Better late than never! For #WildflowerHour #HairyPlants week I have wonderfully wooly thistle! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Better late than never! For #WildflowerHour #HairyPlants week I have wonderfully wooly thistle! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Some butterflies and a moth from @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Wharam Quarry in the week. Six spot burnet moth, small heath, roosting common blue and marbled white butterflies. Flowers a bit crispy but a lovely evening stroll. @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 💚
July 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Some butterflies and a moth from @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Wharam Quarry in the week. Six spot burnet moth, small heath, roosting common blue and marbled white butterflies. Flowers a bit crispy but a lovely evening stroll. @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social 💚
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The heatwave is back, and the fire risk is high. Please help keep the countryside safe.
🔥 No barbecues or campfires
🍾 Take glass bottles and jars home
🚬 Dispose of cigarettes properly
📞 If you see a fire, call 999
With thanks North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue
🔥 No barbecues or campfires
🍾 Take glass bottles and jars home
🚬 Dispose of cigarettes properly
📞 If you see a fire, call 999
With thanks North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue
July 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The heatwave is back, and the fire risk is high. Please help keep the countryside safe.
🔥 No barbecues or campfires
🍾 Take glass bottles and jars home
🚬 Dispose of cigarettes properly
📞 If you see a fire, call 999
With thanks North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue
🔥 No barbecues or campfires
🍾 Take glass bottles and jars home
🚬 Dispose of cigarettes properly
📞 If you see a fire, call 999
With thanks North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue
Gatekeeper in the garden today #Malton @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social also large white & ringlet 💚
June 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Gatekeeper in the garden today #Malton @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social also large white & ringlet 💚
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With warmer temperatures forecast for the end of the week hopefully you’ll appreciate a watery theme for this week’s challenge! Find wild or naturalised aquatic plants in bloom and share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #AquaticPlants 💦🌱
June 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
With warmer temperatures forecast for the end of the week hopefully you’ll appreciate a watery theme for this week’s challenge! Find wild or naturalised aquatic plants in bloom and share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #AquaticPlants 💦🌱
Lovely and lively mass of peacock butterfly caterpillar today along the banks of the River Derwent, North Yorkshire
@savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social
@savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Lovely and lively mass of peacock butterfly caterpillar today along the banks of the River Derwent, North Yorkshire
@savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social
@savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social
For #WildflowerHour this week marsh bedstraw, water forget-me-not, some stonking southern marsh orchid (and some likely hybrids with CS orchid), CS orchid, field rose (?), ragged robin, lesser stitchwort and meadow vetchling (with friends) 💚
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
For #WildflowerHour this week marsh bedstraw, water forget-me-not, some stonking southern marsh orchid (and some likely hybrids with CS orchid), CS orchid, field rose (?), ragged robin, lesser stitchwort and meadow vetchling (with friends) 💚
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
For #WildflowerHour this week lesser spearwort (and friend 🐁), bladder campion, crosswort & water avens, hoary plantain, salad burnett, yellow rattle, bird's foot trefoil, commons spotted orchid & common milkwort 💚
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
For #WildflowerHour this week lesser spearwort (and friend 🐁), bladder campion, crosswort & water avens, hoary plantain, salad burnett, yellow rattle, bird's foot trefoil, commons spotted orchid & common milkwort 💚
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Great to work with partners @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social & @naturalengland.bsky.social on a secret project to nurture Lady's-slipper Orchid back into the wild in Yorkshire!
More info here: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... & here: bsbi.org/download/467...
More info here: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... & here: bsbi.org/download/467...
June 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Great to work with partners @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social & @naturalengland.bsky.social on a secret project to nurture Lady's-slipper Orchid back into the wild in Yorkshire!
More info here: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... & here: bsbi.org/download/467...
More info here: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... & here: bsbi.org/download/467...
Better late than never for #wildflowerhour & not orchids! Wild gladioli, thrift, wild thyme, ivy broomrape, stinking iris, horseshoe vetch, kidney vetch, woolly thistle & wild carrot all from that there Purbeck down South! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Better late than never for #wildflowerhour & not orchids! Wild gladioli, thrift, wild thyme, ivy broomrape, stinking iris, horseshoe vetch, kidney vetch, woolly thistle & wild carrot all from that there Purbeck down South! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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The National Fire Chiefs Council has reported over 200 more wildfires this year than for the same period in 2022 - the worst year on record for wildfires, and more hot spells are predicted.
Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe.
Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe.
May 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The National Fire Chiefs Council has reported over 200 more wildfires this year than for the same period in 2022 - the worst year on record for wildfires, and more hot spells are predicted.
Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe.
Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe.
#NoMowMay bringing joy & not just for plants, but birds, inverts, herps - all! We're lucky to have a pair of greenfinch & yesterday one feeding in our little patch 💚 Soon it'll be a little crèche for froglets 🐸 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @froglife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
#NoMowMay bringing joy & not just for plants, but birds, inverts, herps - all! We're lucky to have a pair of greenfinch & yesterday one feeding in our little patch 💚 Soon it'll be a little crèche for froglets 🐸 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @froglife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
We've been doing #NoMowMay for a few years now & as it kicks off this week I'm sharing our little meadow in our back garden. We don't cut the front at all other than a postie path! Yellow rattle now becoming self-sustaining! Brings much joy!! 💚 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We've been doing #NoMowMay for a few years now & as it kicks off this week I'm sharing our little meadow in our back garden. We don't cut the front at all other than a postie path! Yellow rattle now becoming self-sustaining! Brings much joy!! 💚 @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Green veined white from the garden today, plus first Holly blue of the year joining brimstone, orange tip and small tortoiseshell from last few weeks #Malton @savebutterflies.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Green veined white from the garden today, plus first Holly blue of the year joining brimstone, orange tip and small tortoiseshell from last few weeks #Malton @savebutterflies.bsky.social
For #WildflowerHour #Woodlandplants great woodrush, early dog violet, greater stitchworth, wood anemone, dogs mercury and sweet violet @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
For #WildflowerHour #Woodlandplants great woodrush, early dog violet, greater stitchworth, wood anemone, dogs mercury and sweet violet @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social