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Autumn walks. Can you smell the pine needles?

Road trip across the North Yorkshire Moors today beginning in Pickering eating gelato and finishing eating crab at Whitby.

I do love the east coast. Big landscapes and big skies.

I do love the east coast. Big landscapes and big skies.

#30dayswild #day2 #springwatch Good times at #butterflyconservation Prees Heath Meadow nature reserve. Huge species list! Small blue butterfly, cinnabar moth (only ever seen caterpillars before), orange tip, skylark, wren, yellow hammer, dunnock, chiff chaff, chaffinch, pied wag tail, corvids, sparrowhawk (we think), mistle thrush and, may fav of the day, an adult tree creeper feeding two fledglings in the park in Whitchurch. And finally a rabbit scull (guessing). Time for cake.

#30dayswild #day2 #springwatch Good times at #butterflyconservation Prees Heath Meadow nature reserve. Huge species list! Small blue butterfly, cinnabar moth (only ever seen caterpillars before), orange tip, skylark, wren, yellow hammer, dunnock, chiff chaff, chaffinch, pied wag tail, corvids, sparrowhawk (we think), mistle thrush and, may fav of the day, an adult tree creeper feeding two fledglings in the park in Whitchurch. And finally a rabbit scull (guessing). Time for cake.

#30dayswild has come back around. Happy happy days. Little walk round the back of Malpas revealed a new housing estate with a new nature area and an amazing view! Great work house builders and local planners. More of this please.

Some big skies over Gibraltar point this afternoon. And only a few miles from the madness of Skegness.

Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire. The oak stands in the field at the back of the hall and I was really pleased to see it has bats roosting in it. The low branches are worn smooth by the cattle using it as a back stratcher. The apples were on display in the stables and all grown in the grounds at Gunby. The smell was delicious.

A stunning day at RSPB Frampton Marsh. A breathtaking sunset, small murmuration, posing kestrel, thousands of brent geese and a stoat scraping along the fence as we returned to the carpark. And who knew the meridian line went through Frampton!

A stunning day at RSPB Frampton Marsh. A breathtaking sunset, small murmuration, posing kestrel, thousands of brent geese and a stoat scraping along the fence as we returned to the carpark. And who knew the meridian line went through Frampton!