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Emma Lusby
@emlusby.bsky.social
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Easily distracted by winged things, food, nature nut, northern.
Head of comms for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust www.ywt.org.uk
https://bsky.app/profile/yorkswildlife.bsky.social
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Well it is autumn, and it’s been chucking it down all day. First fire in the house we moved into in May 🔥 🍂
A log fire blazes merrily in a grate, traditional black fire surround featuring pretty tiles with white flowers and leaf pattern and a black tiled hearth.
September 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Red admiral, peacock, tortoiseshell, comma, holly blue and white butterflies in garden today. All going in the #BigButterflyCount 💚@savebutterflies.bsky.social
Red admiral butterfly showing its open red and black wings, white dots on the tips. On a sunny buddleia (sp?) leaf.
August 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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My happy place on a Friday evening, summer by the Wharfe. Pair of redstart, several spotted flycatcher feeding young, blackcap and butterflies
River Wharfe flowing gently into the distance under a canopy of large trees reflected in the water alongside meadows. Blue skies. Very warm.
June 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Moving house this week. I have a similar number of herbal teas 🫣
Looking into a cardboard box where around 50 herb and spice containers cover the base, with names showing on lids.
May 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Annual pilgrimage to Middleton Woods, Ilkley. Priceless perfume, golden tunes, feeling blessed - this is my church
Bluebells carpet a woodland floor Bluebells carpet lush woodland floor
April 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Best sighting of a pair of crossbills, plus siskin, redpoll, yellowhammer, willow warbler - Gartly Moor, Aberdeenshire
Pine trees scattered with arable fields leading to moor upland in the background under cloud pattered blue skies. Birds not included.
April 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Don’t mind the ‘weeds’, they’re feeding the bees 💚
A bumblebee perches on the edge of a bright yellow dandelion flower to feed, in the sunshine.
April 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Intriguing exhibition, Soil, at Somerset House. A sunny day in London town today.
April 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Cowslips and first orange-tip butterfly seen today 💚 ahhh spring.
A small clump of creamy yellow, trumpet-like flowers, cowslips, growing a few centimetres high in unmown grassland by the foot of a tree, the sun is shining.
April 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Not a bad day at the office - Spurn Point
Long view over grassland and golden reeds, a line of low trees and scrub, to the Humber in the distance under spring blue skies
March 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Strid wood and the Wharfe today; dippers, grey wagtail, buzzard and the first time I’ve seen a little egret feeding here
Looking over rocky river inlet next to the River Wharfe surrounded by bare trees. Blue sky reflected in the water.
March 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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‘Time’ at Beverley Minster by @luxmuralis.bsky.social was very beautiful last night. Reminded me that ‘this too shall pass.’
Light show of colourful moving images and writing, kaleidoscopic, depicting time and the passing of time with music projected onto the interior of Beverley minster, where the architecture added atmosphere
March 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Lovely visit to Lancs Wildlife Trust’s Brockholes reserve on way home from Wales. Small flock of curlew passed over.
Rainbow over Brockholes reserve, blue sky with scudding clouds. A group of reserve buildings built out on on the wetland with low roofs are modern but resemble a more ancient style, and are surrounded by reedbed and winter meadow. A path runs between them. Woodland in the distance.
February 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Stunning in Snowdonia. Goldeneye on the water.
View looking down Llyn Ogwen a picturesque lake in Snowdonia with big blue sky and rocky hills, to the sides, high fells in the distance, a few scrubby trees
February 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Out from behind the desk for a great visit to North Cave Wetlands, so many friendly people, and saw a woodcock, fieldfare, brambling, bull finch, tree sparrows, water birds galore.
View over lake under light cloud, surrounded by golden reeds Highland cow, shaggy coat, pale coloured with sharp horns, behind thicket hedge in a scrubby field, with other highland cows in the distance.
January 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Slow going but very beautiful across crisp frozen snow and ice on Ilkley moor today.

Catching death of cold without t’at a strong possibility
Snow blankets low growing shrubs and paths of upland ilkley moor, where a few bare trees poke through. View looks across wharfedale in middle distance to southern edge of Nidderdale moors in the far distance also snow covered. Under a beautiful clear blue sky.
January 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Proper dollops of snow here in north West Yorkshire. Feeding and watering the birds.
Dollops of snow cling to bare branches of garden hazel tree, and a blanket of snow covers the ground
January 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Christmas cake and Wensleydale never lasts long in this house
January 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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It’s a winter member’s magazine! Another successful delivery from my talented team at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Makes me proud every time.
Front cover of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s winter magazine featuring a beautiful highland cow in frosty grass.
December 10, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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Bee orchid, West Yorkshire in July. This little beauty seems to pop up in the most unassuming places, including chemical free lawns. Saw a few this summer.
A bee orchid, low growing with a walker’s foot behind for scale. Pale pink long petals and a burgundy centre that resembles an oval body of a bee or pollinating insect.
November 30, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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Some of my hardier, furrier conservation colleagues nonplussed by my words of encouragement earlier at Potteric Carr. Picked up gorgeous Wildlife Trust Christmas cards too.
About 12 Black and white sheep - possibly Hebridean - used for conservation grazing, on the meadow on the edge of a lake at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s Potteric Carr nature reserve
November 27, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Thank you to everyone who followed me this first week, rediscovering familiar faces here has been like catching up with friends in the sunshine 💚
A holly blue butterfly perched with open wings on ivy leaves
November 23, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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Hi everyone 👋 Very lovely seeing familiar faces again. I’d missed you after deleting the Bad Place from phone. I’m more of a reader than a poster but here for all things green, climate, wild and tasty 💚
November 14, 2024 at 6:44 PM