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Wildlife Friendly Otley campaigns to raise interest in and awareness of local wildlife and Otley as a wildlife friendly town.

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Winners of our Wildlife Friendly Garden Competition 2025 🎉

🐛Most Wildlife Friendly Courtyard/Small Garden - Dave Kelly

🐸Most Wildlife Friendly Garden - Celia Chambers

🦋Most Wildlife Friendly Street - Ashfield Place

🌼Wildlife Champion 2025 - The Jarvis Family of Pool Road

Thanks all who entered!
September 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The turning of the seasons once again 🍂

Why not read the wonderful Otley Nature Notes, written by Keith?

www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk/naturediaryf...

So put on the kettle, and give this a read as the wind picks up and we finally get some much-needed rain.

#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley
Nature Diary from Otley | Wildlife Friendly
www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk
September 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🌼Wildlife Friendly Garden Awards 🌼

You're invited!

Come and celebrate the winners of our 2025 Wildlife Friendly Garden awards (coffee & cake provided) 🍰

📍Beech Hill Church, 20-24 Westgate, Otley
⏲Weds, 17th September, 7.30pm

#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley #WildlifeGardening
August 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We were delighted to go pond dipping & minibeast hunting at Gallows Hill with Otley Rainbows 🌈

💧Pond dipping is a fantastic way to see what wonderful life is in the water

#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley #GallowsHillNatureReserve
August 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
We loved spending time with Monkey Puzzle Nursery ✨

Everyone was inspired to get out into nature (though don't ask what was happening in the 2nd photo 😂)

Some wildlife-friendly resources & activities for children on our website: www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk/kids-area

#WildlifeFriendlyOtley
August 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Baby Barn Owls practicing flying! 🥰

In a box in Leathley. Thanks to Wildlife Friendly Otley's Barn Owl group for putting up boxes in and around Otley 🙏

You can watch these cuties on the livestream:
www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxgga...

🦉

#Otley #Leathley #BarnOwl
July 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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🦇 If you're looking for a fun activity to in summer evenings why not take part in our Sunset Survey? It's the perfect bat survey for beginners and you can do it from your garden, window or local park!
More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/nat...
July 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A dragonfly nymph and a dragonfly 😍

Creating a pond is one of the best things you can do for wildlife 💦

Does anyone know what species this is? 🤔

#Dragonfly #Otley #WildlifeFriendlyOtley
July 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Let's take the opportunity to connect with nature this #WorldWellbeingWeek 🦋
June 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🌿 Last Chance to Enter! 🐝🌼

Is your garden, planter, or street buzzing with life? Our Wildlife-Friendly Garden Competition is in its final week!

Email photos to wildlifefriendlyotley@gmail.com by 3 July in order to enter 🐞

#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley
June 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
We loved our visit to Little Green Frog nursery 💚

We pretended to be minibeasts & made nature artwork

Thank you! 🐸

#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley
June 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Thank you to everyone who came by our stall yesterday at the Green Fair

We were definitely inspired, and hope you were too 🌿💚

@otleycourthouse.bsky.social

#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley
June 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This #NationalVolunteeringWeek

Thank you to everyone who has given up your time & energy to help make Otley a wildlife-friendly town.

You are so appreciated 🙏

#WildlifeFriendlyOtley #Otley
June 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Free event!

Thurs 12 June, join us for a talk 'Sharing Space; making green corridors through the grey' 🌿

Free sandwiches, tea, coffee, & cake ☕

7.00pm Chippendale Centre

RSPV by email wildlifefriendlyotley@gmail.com

#WildlifeFriendlyOtley
June 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Free event!

This Sunday 8th June, join us for a Wildlife Garden Winners Tour 🌻

Free tea, coffee, & cake 🍰

Meet at Burras Lane tree planting area, 1.30pm

RSVP by email wildlifefriendlyotley@gmail.com

#Otley #WildlifeFriendlyOtley
June 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Read this year's Summer Nature Notes from Otley 🌸

Take a walk through the soft purple haze of Bluebells, muse on memories of summer droughts, soar with Red Kites, & much more.

www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk/naturediaryf...

#Otley #WildlifeFriendlyOtley
May 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
We're celebrating #WorldBeeDay 🐝

With more than a quarter of British wild bees in decline, they need a helping hand!

From bee hotels, to pollinator-friendly planting and chemical-free gardening, there's lots we can do to help these gorgeous creatures 💛

#Otley
May 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
📢Otley Green Fair📢

Swing by the @otleycourthouse.bsky.social on 7th June to celebrate & get involved with all things green 💚

Including workshops, stalls, food, music & more 🎵

⏲10-4

#Otley #WildlifeFriendlyOtley
May 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Just look at the fantastic meadow patch in Otley All Saints' Church 😍🌼

Churchyards can be such important hotspots for nature 💛

#Otley #WildlifeFriendlyOtley
May 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Huge thanks to students, parents, & teachers who joined us a few weeks ago. We:

🦔Made sure the hedgehog & bug houses were extra cosy

🕳Dug out more of the old, clogged up pond to turn it into a wildlife-rich ephemeral pond

🐞Went on some wildlife hunts

💦Created a new, mini pond

& more! #Otley
May 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We need to talk about.... pesticides & herbicides in #Otley

Not only are they causing the loss of our bees, insects, birds, & other wildlife, but research has found they can also be extremely harmful to human health too ❌

There are safe alternatives www.wildlifefriendlyotley.org.uk/gardens
May 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🦔Hedgehog Awareness Week🦔

Maybe you can take inspiration from the wonderful pupils, parents, & teachers at Pool C of E School and make a hedgehog home? 🏠

💚 Support your local hedgehog rescue Prickly Pigs

#Otley #HedgehogAwarenessWeek
May 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's May, and that means that you can enter our Wildlife Friendly Gardening competition! 🎉🌼🐞

There's lots of categories, you don't even need to have a garden

Show us your photos on social media with #otleywildlifegarden or email wildlifefriendlyotley@gmail.com

Good luck 🍀

#Otley
May 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Evening hedgerow walk - mushi yoku. Wandering, watching, wondering....
May 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It's International Dawn Chorus Day! 🎶

Time to get up early and listen to the melodies!

#Otley #DawnChorus
May 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM