Welcome to the Scarborough Wildlife website

The word 'wildlife' is used loosely to include birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, butterflies, moths, dragonflies, beetles, spiders, wasps, bees, flies, insects, trees, plants, flowers, fish, molluscs and even geology.  It used to be known as 'natural history' in the good old days, but 'wildlife' tends to sound a bit more friendly than 'history', especially to some of the younger generation.

Anyway, take a look around the website and see if anything interests you.  You can always let us know what you think about the site, and we would like to know what you've been seeing too - so send us an email (attach photos if you've photographed anything interesting, we're on broadband) to info@scarboroughwildlife.org.uk .  You don't have to be a member of any organisations to send us your sightings, everyone can join in.

We aim to cover all levels of expertise, so we are just as interested in hearing about your garden birds as we are in the arrival of a rare migrant that can only be positively identified by extracting DNA directly from it's brain!  Photos can also be of landscapes as well as wildlife, we just ask that you send us information and / or photos which are fairly recent rather than something that was taken in 1954 on a Box Brownie camera.

Take a look at the 'Meetings and Events' page too, to see if any of the items listed there might be of interest.  There are a selection of indoor and outdoor meetings and you don't have to be either a wildlife expert or fit enough to run a marathon to take part - in fact, you will probably survive the indoor meetings even if you are really unfit!  There is also a link on that page that can be used to print out a membership form if you would like to join the Society.

Finally, if this is your first visit to the website make sure you check out the 'Features' page which has sections on amphibians in your garden, Badger road casualties in the Scarborough District, the Betton Bird of Prey Centre, Chrys Mellor's Greeting Cards, the 'Garden Centre' Spider, books on 'The Butterflies of Yorkshire' and 'Fungi of the Scarborough District', good hygiene when feeding garden birds, NE Yorkshire Geology Trust, the North Riding Badger Group, Raptor Viewpoint in Wykeham Forest, reptiles in your garden, 'Ryedale Rehab' where Jean Thorpe cares for sick and injured wild animals, Scarborough's Sea Life Centre and seabird cruises which are run by RSPB volunteers to see either Puffins or Skuas and Shearwaters (depending on the time of year).

Last year also saw Scarborough Field Naturalists' Society receive Lottery funding through the 'Awards for All' scheme.  You can read the details by clicking here.

Recent Updates 
  4 July 2008 - The Recent Sightings page has new moth, butterfly, dragonfly and bird reports.
  3 July 2008 - The Recent Sightings page has new fly, moth and butterfly reports.
  3 July 2008 - The Flamborough Wildlife Group page has a new bird, butterfly and moth report.
  3 July 2008 - The News Stories page has a report on seabirds caught in fishing nets.
  2 July 2008 - The Recent Sightings page has new moth and bird reports.
  2 July 2008 - The Flamborough Wildlife Group page has a new bird report.
  1 July 2008 - The Recent Sightings page has new bird, butterfly and moth reports.
  1 July 2008 - The Flamborough Wildlife Group page has a new mammal report.

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