In My Own Backyard

Like a lot of travellers, I sometimes overlook the wildlife and wild places 'in my own backyard', but in between the overseas trips I've walked many miles through Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and I thought it was about time I shared a few photos. It's difficult to spot and photograph wild animals with a dog in tow, so the images are mostly of landscapes, trees and other things that don't run, swim or fly away.
Landscapes Wildlife Trees The focus for a lot of my walks is the Yorkshire Wolds Way, a 79 mile (127km) National Trail. For the uninitiated, 'wold' is a term used in England to describe a range of hills which overlie a base of limestone or chalk. The Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Wolds are geologically a single range, but physically separated by the Humber Estuary. The Wolds Way and the rest of the network of footpaths, nature reserves and country parks cover a whole range of habitats and several important breeding and overwintering sites for mammals and birds. My favourite habitat for walks is woodland, where I like to photograph trees - whole ones and bits of them, like leaves, roots and bark.	Wolds Way sign, Little Wold Plantation, East Yorkshire
North Ferriby foreshore, East Yorkshire
Wildflower meadow, York Grounds Farm, East Yorkshire
Ellerker North Wold, East Yorkshire
Wheat field, Mount Airy Farm, East Yorkshire
Cave Wold, East Yorkshire
Buttercup meadow, Skidby, East Yorkshire
Skidby Mill, East Yorkshire	Spurn Point lighthouse, East Yorkshire
Humber mudflats, Lincolnshire	Humber mudflats, Lincolnshire
Tophill Low Nature Reserve, East Yorkshire
Glaisdale, North Yorkshire Return to top
Hedgehog, Sledmere House, East Yorkshire

Hedgehog, Sledmere House, East Yorkshire
Grey seal pup, Donna Nook, Lincolnshire	Grey seal mother & pup, Donna Nook, Lincolnshire
More photos of the Grey Seals of Donna Nook.

Harbour seal, Filey Brigg, North Yorkshire
Water vole, Setting Dyke, Hull, East Yorkshire
Water vole, Setting Dyke, Hull, East Yorkshire
Water vole, Swine Bank, Hull, East Yorkshire

Roe deer, Spurn National Nature Reserve, East Yorkshire

Common toad, Riccal Dale, North Yorkshire
Barn owl (ringed & released), Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve, East Yorkshire
Barn owl (ringed & released), Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve, East Yorkshire
Barn swallows, East Yorkshire

Barn swallows, East Yorkshire

Mute swans, Waters Edge Country Park, Lincolnshire
Whooper swan, Hornsea Mere, East Yorkshire	Robin, literally in my backyard, East Yorkshire
Atlantic puffin, Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire	Razorbills, Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire
Hoverfly and poppy, Rowley, East Yorkshire Return to top
Tree and stormy sky, Dunflat Lane, Risby, East Yorkshire
Beech tree, Low Hunsley Plantation, East Yorkshire
Horse chestnut leaves, Nut Wood, East Yorkshire
Beech tree roots, Low Hunsley Plantation, East Yorkshire
Frozen beech leaves, Little Carr Lane, Willerby, East Yorkshire
Tree bark, Allerthorpe Common Nature Reserve, East Yorkshire Return to top
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