After re-landscaping my Saltburn back garden, a thorn apple (Jimsonweed) non-native has popped up.

Flowering thorn apple in Hartlepool (Whitby Walk) today.

Probably millions of red-thighed St. Mark's flies were swarming over the Blencathra fells in the Lake District last Monday. Two ring ouzels seen on Sharp Edge.

Just put in my Heather Burning (preferably none) consultation response.

Early start and needed a detour, but pleased to find the two snow geese still at Swinemoor near Beverley at first light this morning. Thousands of wigeon, teal and lapwing.

Yellow fieldcap from Coatham Dunes last week #teesbirds

Lovely visit to Seaham beach today, collecting 'sea glass' with friends.

The Boulby Potash miners table sculpture near Staithes, N Yorkshire.

A fly agaric at Harewood House Park, Leeds, recently.

Ignore my son's dog, and the mallards, there are now Mandarin ducks on my childhood haunt of Roundhay Park lake in Leeds. Rose-ringed parakeets have colonised too. Mindst you, it's a long time since I was a kid.

A surprisingly empty Saltburn by the Sea beach the other day, bar my wife.

An enjoyable walk from Robin Hood's Bay out towards Ravenscar, with family.

Dawn in Shelf, West Yorkshire, this morning during the initial search for the scarlet tanager, which later gave itself up. An unexpected but welcome British tick.