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Peta Constable reports on the Wharfedale Naturalists Webinar, March 10, 202: The importance of WNS species reports: Birds and Butterflies IF, like me, the first sighting of a butterfly in the garden or a charismatic female Goosander and her young on the Wharfe, gives a feeling that some things are still right with the world, you will appreciate the huge contribution made by our Society’s recorders to the knowledge of what is and isn’t present in our local patch on an annual basis. They ...

Peta Constable reports on Wharfedale Naturalists presentation “A year in the Life of Swifts” LOOK no feet! Apus Apus the Common swift, eats, drinks, mates, preens and sleeps (half its brain awake and half asleep) on the wing. This gave rise the old belief that Swifts had no legs or feet. Thus the family name for all swifts, Apodidae, “footless”. Swifts, of course, have feet but land on them only when they enter their nesting site, lay eggs and rear their chicks. The rest of the time...