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Well, okay, I didn’t actually see a mole, but the fresh mounds of earth were pretty compelling evidence. On the few occasions I have...

My Mum and her sister once flew across the Atlantic for a tour of “The Spectacular Colours of New England in the Fall”. They really...

This is another fungus with a helpful name slowly eating the rotting wood around Otley. We can thank the Americans for what is now its...

These cute little lime-green spiders are to be found in the gardens, hedges and woodland of Otley. Confident in their camouflage colours...

Some fungus names leave you scratching your head (Destroying Angel, Chicken of the Woods, Hairy Curtain Crust anyone?) but not this one....

The hedges and trees seem to be heavy with fruit and nuts at this time of year, however with the constant loss of valuable habitat and...

WFO-supporter Emma Dunnett yesterday spotted adults and larvae together on some fence posts above Weston Woods. The larvae have a quite...

I love these striking, noisy waders, with their long red beaks for opening molluscs or probing for worms. Once called Sea-pies, they were...

This is a hardy tree, for whom the sometimes disappointing weather of Otley is no problem at all – it flourishes in Arctic Norway. There...

Possessors of a strange beauty, but undeniably slimy, these invertebrates produce three different types of mucus: one as a lubricant for...

There are several rookeries in the Otley area, including one on Kirkgate, though the avian ones are quiet now after the din of spring and...

It ’s Autumn and so many of us like to get busy cutting down all our fading perennials. But please think about your wildlife, tidiness is...