Connect to Nature

Here you’ll find information about ways you can connect to nature in our region. You’ll find details of resources, opportunities, events, and more.

Events

hayton and burnby wildlife recording day

NEYEDC will be holding a Wildlife Recording Day in Hayton, East Yorkshire on Tuesday 2nd September. We will be based at Hayton Village Hall and we will be joined by members of the Hull Natural History Society to record the wildlife of Hayton village.

The event is part of the Live Labs 2 project, which involves changes to the lighting and the use of high visibility signage along the A1079 which runs through Hayton and the turning off of streetlights along the side roads. The main objective is to use new technologies to reduce energy use and associated climate impacts whilst maintaining safety, potentially setting new standards to be followed elsewhere.

The reduction in lighting and light spill has the potential to change the behaviours of animals that are active by night or in the dawn and dusk periods, and the wildlife part of the project aims to record and monitor wildlife to try and see if any changes occur with the new streetlighting.

During the Wildlife Recording Day we will be hosting an introductory moth trap session with a public trap opening in the morning, co-ordinating wildlife recording in the public spaces of the village along with the Hull Nats and sharing what we have found so far and during the day and as part of the wider project. We will also be on hand to help people start using wildlife recording apps such as iNaturalist and Merlin so they can contribute their wildlife records to the project and help us to build up a picture of the wildlife of Hayton and Burnby. The iNaturalist project for Hayton and Burnby is active until 2026 - could you help provide records for the area?

Resources

Species

Butterfly City (Hull) CONNECT WITH BUTTERFLY CITY

Yorkshire Dragonflies CONNECT WITH YORKSHIRE’S DRAGONFLIES

City of Dragons CONNECT WITH DRAGONFLIES IN HULL

Yorkshire Butterflies CONNECT WITH YORKSHIRE'S BUTTERFLIES

UK Ladybirds CONNECT WITH LADYBIRDS

Yorkshire Moths CONNECT WITH YORKSHIRE'S MOTHS

Networks and groups

Yorkshire Rewilding Network CONNECT WITH YRN

Voluntary conservation groups in York FIND A GROUP

Yorkshire Marine Nature Partnership CONNECT WITH THE YMNP

Yorkshire Naturalists Union Affiliated Societies

Landscapes

Nature in the Yorkshire Dales CONNECT WITH THE DALES

Nature in the North York Moors CONNECT WITH THE NORTH YORK MOORS