Category: Shipley Glen
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Redpoll in Shipley Glen. 17 March 2026
After spending some of the morning of the 17th watching Siskin at the Baildon Co-op car park I decided to spend some of the afternoon in Shipley Glen. The header image is of a Redpoll spotted in Shipley Glen. As usual you can tap/touch/click on an image to see it in better quality in the…
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RSPB & Shipley Glen. 15 March 2026
Sunday morning was a walk with Airedale and Bradford RSPB Group. A couple of hours at Shipley Glen looking for birds. This was one of the walks they have organised for this Spring to celebrate the creation of the Bradford Pennine Gateway National Nature Reserve. They have dates for these walks on their website. In…
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Shipley Glen Fungi. 1 Jan 2026
Another wander through Shipley Glen with my macro lens. The same fungi were found in different places in the Glen, their appearance can vary quite a bit so I hope I am somewhere near with IDs. This time I have tried to group them by type and not chronologically. The header image is of a…
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Shipley Glen Fungi on 22 Oct
Having found the previous visit interesting where we looked at fruit, berries and fungi. I decided to go and have another look at fungi in Shipley Glen. I have stuck a photo up as header image and stuck my neck out when I say it is Russet Toughshank, Gymnopus dryophilus Butter Cap, Rhodocollybia butyracea. I…
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21 Oct. Bracken Hall Countryside Centre Walk
Today was one of John Dallas’s walks from Bracken Hall Countryside Centre. The idea was to keep an eye out for fungi, fruit, nuts, and berries! John guided us around the things that could feed us with his incredible in-depth knowledge, but in line with my recent sign-up to the Mid-Yorkshire Fungus Group I was…
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October Fungi at Bracken Hall Green
This visit to Bracken Hall Green and Shipley Glen was different to my usual trips in that I didn’t take my long lens or general lens with me. I only carried my macro lens with ring flash clipped to the front of it. This meant that my back didn’t not ache quite as much as…
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Bracken Hall Green 11 Aug
I quite like the Small Copper butterfly so thought these from Bracken Hall Green worth sharing. As usual you can tap/touch/click on an image, not its caption, to see it in better quality in the gallery. And if you like what you see please click on one or more of the Share buttons at the…
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Bracken Hall Green to the river. Mid July 2025
I have had a few visits to Bracken Hall Green recently (see the category: Shipley Glen) and these are from visits on 12 & 13 July 2025. The visit on 12 was with two other members of the Bingley Camera Club wildlife group. It also involved a walk down to Hirst Mill weir on the…