Living Dangerously!
These Moorhen chicks are brave to be sharing a perch with the Terrapins in Clifton Backies pond! All chicks fledged and are doing great! Photo by Lesley Booth
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Looking back – May at Backies pond
Lesley Booth took all these photos back in May 2015 in or around Clifton Backies balancing pond. They are a lovely collection definitely worth sharing! A heron fishing for sticklebacks in the pond:...
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New Homes for Feathered Friends of Clifton Backies!
As part of National Nest Box Week, the Friends of Clifton Backies group decided to make and put up a number of bird nest boxes on site. We purchased some wood and fixings, and set about making boxes...
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Fantastic Mr. Fox! & Buttercup Meadow
Fantastic Mr. Fox! – This fine animal was very boldly exploring the hay meadow near the Oak trees Buttercup Meadow in May This fine show of yellow is from the North meadow where the main species...
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York Buzz Flowers
We have been kindly donated some flowers from BugLife as part of their Urban Buzz project. These are being cared for by a Friend of Clifton Backies – Lesley, and will be planted once we have our new...
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Hobby sighting
Recently I saw and heard a bird of prey that I didn’t recognise swooping around above the Backies. It was flying through a group of swallows. When I looked it up on the RSPB and BTO web-sites it was...
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