Fungi are incredibly important to the functioning of almost all ecosystems on earth. They are neither plant nor animal and come in a fantastic array of different shapes. Read more about some of the fungi of Nosterfield Nature Reserve here.

Nosterfield Nature Reserve supports hundreds of vascular plant species (wild flowers, grasses and allies, and ferns).

Find out more about the rare plant species found naturally on our reserves as well as the ones we are saving from local extinction in our plant nursery and habitat restoration projects.

September brought in good migrant waders, including several curlew sandpipers, little stint, wood sandpiper, bar-tailed godwits and grey plover. The first influx of pink-footed geese hails the beginning of autumn.

August brought us two ringed Great White Egrets all the way from Somerset, a stunning male Common Scotor and a calling Corncrake!

The Green Recovery Challenge Fund project, ‘Restoring the Swale & Ure Washlands’, has now come to an end so it seems like a good time to take a look back over the past year and see what we’ve achieved!

April brought with it more spring migrants and other surprises too! Read all about it in Andy Hanby’s birding round up.

Becky Bailey, Associate Director at Temple Ecologists and trustee for Yorkshire Naturalists Union, came to visit us at Nosterfield Nature Reserve. For World Curlew day she discusses this amazing bird and its significant decline in recent years.