A Kingfisherβs eye view - incredible! Just to stay alive each adult must eat half their body weight in small fish each day. If they have chicks, a pair of kingfishers must catch a further 70 fish each day. We have a duty to protect our rare and fragile chalkstreams! #WildIsles
Itβs definitely deteriorated below the Cathedral & Cow Tower a part of the river which was once full of aquatic plants & the river often ran clear & was full of largeπBishops Bridge was always the best place to watchπ¦¦feeding on themπ§River Wensum SSSI & a SAC β€οΈ #ChalkStreams
β¦Wessex Rivers Trustβ© returning natural floodplain gravel to the riverbed, restoring salmonid spawning habitat on degraded and damaged #ChalkStreams .
Weβll be at it though the autumn, getting ready for winter spawning
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Happy #WorldRiversDay π #saveourchalkstreams Celebrating the headwaters of the Arle that run through Bishops Sutton today #chalkstreams matter
This morning we were up with the larks before work removing paint tins and rubbish that had been chucked into part of the chalk stream network by some idiots. Remember, they walk among us. βΉοΈ
Thanks to Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis πππ for his help with this.
#chalkstreams #rivers #pollution
Utter thrill to find local #chalkstream Tuddenham Mill Stream, tributary of the River Lark, full of dozens of fine Brown Trout, mostly 12, 9 & 6 inches long. This one was sitting downstream of a fallen tree. #chalkstream s #westsuffolk #tuddenham #suffolk #browntrout
#MySwim π§΅1/15
Great work by the ForShep members clearing bankside vegetation and 'silt casting' by hand to clear deeper silt from chalky firmer bottom. #chalkstreams Feargal Sharkey The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants Brian Eversham Cambridge Water π° Cambridge Past, Present & Future Russell ChalkStreamsInCrisis πππ Riverfly Partnership Canal & River Trust
Right back at you Jenny! X
And hereβs a peak at how well Tory policy goes down at a river sewage protest compared to your ownβ¦π«’β
Thames Water π§ and Environment Agency Ofwat firmly in the cross hairs for their appalling treatment of our chalkstreams.
Keep in the fight for our rivers!
Tune in! π© Helping to highlight #Environmental & #Community damage Main sewer & drainage infrastructure causes #ChalfontStPeter Doomsday Village with DOOMSDAY Sewer System π© #ChalfontFlood #RiverMisbourne Sarah Green MP πΆ #ChalkStreams
BBC Countryfile
Thames Water π§ Buckinghamshire Council
While he was filming an educational video I was frolicking with a fervour of frenzied spawning Minnows (Phoxinus phoxinus), males beautified by the little tubercles dotting their heads. #River #Sapiston #BlackBourn #Ixworth #Suffolk #chalkstreams #minnows #PhoxinusPhoxinus π§΅1/9
Chalk stream/ spring creek perfection in the USA- Mossy Creek Virginia #mossycreekflyfishing #chalkstreams #springcreeks
Why would anyone fish manicured fisheries for domesticated farmed fish when wild #ChalkStreams contain wild beauties like this? π
Care for your river, and your river cares for you ππ
πHeavenπNirvanaπ Paradise Shangri-la πUtopia πElysiumπParadiseπ β€οΈ #ChalkStreams a rare glimpse of what all our rare Chalk Streams should look like & without proper protection our generation could be the last to witness them