Martyn Priestley-Sharing tips about Urban Wildlife

Lesser Whitethroat in song at Low Moor Banks, Low Moor Bradford this morning @urbanwildlifetips

First Holly Blue yesterday at Oakwell Country Park Birkenshaw #urbanwildlifetips

Plenty of Speckled Woods this morning at Raw Nook LNR Bradford @urbanwildlifetips

Two female Whinchats this morning at Caldene fields Low Moor Bradford

Ashy mining bee (probable female) at usual nest site this morning on a popular well trodden footpath at Caldene fields Low moor Bradford @UrbanWildlifeUK

Took a walking group on a nature walk around Toad Holes Beck Bradford this morning and found a site first a Little Egret. And all 19 eager walkers saw it! Brilliant...

@GazNeon Hi Gaz..Probably a Sparrow Hawk, not afraid of human activity when there's prey about. Still a good spot though

@MartynTips Passed the Black Horse and spotted some kind of bird of prey chasing a smaller dark coloured bird through the trees and down the railway sidings wall. The most surprising thing was the time of day and the amount of human activity nearby. Sadly the dashcam isn't good

One of 3 Blackcaps 2 M +1 F both males displaying to female at Toad Holes Beck Bradford

@GazNeon Must have been a strong movement last night...unusual to see them at night..glad you saw them.

@MartynTips I was out in my garden until around 9 and saw geese overhead twice. One group almost following Cleckheaton Rd and the other heading towards Bierley.

An extremely low skein of Pink footed geese flew over Caldene fields Low Moor last night AT 10.50!!!

The Low Moor &Oakenshaw conservation group cleared and exposed a new patch of lowland heath habitat today at Raw Nook LNR Low Moor Bradford. @bradfordmdc

A party of six Common Buzzards drifted N/W over Caldene fields Low Moor Bradford yesterday

First two Chiffchaffs today at Toad Holes Beck Bradford

Yesterday afternoon a Curlew flew over Tong Garden Centre and dropped into nearby farmland...once annual in South Bradford..now rare!

@BDSdragonflies Sorry to post on a different subject..however glimpsed a large dark dragonfly on a sunny afternoon on 2/3 flying low over a pond..very unusual in my opinion. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you

Hundreds of Bog Pools Restored for Rare Dragonflies! Since November 2024, the BDS has been working with landowners and contractors to increase the climate change resilience of the breeding habitat of rare peatland dragonflies, like the Azure Hawker. bit.ly/4aWZ74M

Common Buzzard flying low over Toad Holes Beck Low Moor this morning

@ajwr123 Great effort guys..well done!

An away day milestone. 100th ground visited. Can't beat away days dad and lad #BCAFC

@retrofootballnw I was there...brilliant. but in hindsight wish he hadn't scored...as that's when we started to go bankrupt...but we stopped Liverpool going into Europe..ha

The last day of the 1999/00 season. The relegation battle down to the wire. #BCAFC had to beat Liverpool to stay up. Could they extend their Premier League stay?

An Oak Beauty (a site first) and a March moth, first moths of the year here at Caldene fields Low Moor Bradford

Low Moor & Oakenshaw Conservation Group removing the final patches of bramble as we shape the new wildflower bank at Toad Holes Beck Bradford @bradfordmdc