#Fens

nicola crockford

numenini

Amazing swarms of non-native Bitterlings in Burwell & Wicken Lodes. Maybe the most numerous fish. One was trailing something v long - not poop, but not sure what? Certainly mussels

Steve Dudley 🕷

stevedudley_

We live in the northern Huntingdonshire #fens. Farcet Fen (circled) lies immediately north of the site of the former Whittlesea Mere - then the largest freshwater body in lowland England.

nicola crockford

numenini

Further to yesterday's loot https://twitter.com/numenini/status/1383761265743458309?s=20, extraordinary snorkel down Lee Brook from Beck Bridge, Freckenham like #GenerationGame conveyor belt: jewellery, watches, laptops, safes, wallets

Dr. Merritt Turetsky

queenofpeat

I this image & want to tell you why. Yesterday I asked people to interpret what this was. There is a wealth of information in this single image -

Cambs Youth Panel

cambsyouthpanel

Ok guys we need some help here. We need to identify schools who recognise that they still have children who do not have their own computers at home. We have

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

Standing in a historic church, you may have a strong sense of the shifting sands of time, but perhaps nowhere more than at St. Andrew's, Wood Walton, Cambridgeshire - our

Mike Peacock

MikePeacock86

Our new paper in @nature "Overriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03523-1(1/6)#PeatTwitter #PeatPaper https://twitter.com/UK_CEH/status/138488869678531

Ellie Kendall

ofendlessbooks

MEGA THREAD. A recent tweet mentioned British imperialism and how it historically wreaked suffering abroad, but not at home. I think we need to talk about the somewhat forgotten #history

Elvis Parsley #ScarcityIsManufacturedForProfit

snorenat

More action from the government to put more red tape and police in the way of Travellers making homes for themselves on their own land, as the govt also acts

Alex Prendergast

BrambleBotanist

Fancy trying your hand at Taraxacology for @wildflowerhour #Dandelionfest this weekend? A big part of ID’ing our 250ish dandelions to species is getting the right section. There are 9 sections

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

More than fifteen million people pass St Andrew’s, Wood Walton every year.The East Coast Main Line rattles past twenty times a day, just two hundred yards from the church tower.Standing

Mick Crawley

crawley_mick

This is an ideal time to learn about the grass genus Poa (Poaceae). These are the species with leaf-tips shaped like the bow of a canoe (x10). The 2 common

Benedict Macdonald

Rebirding1

1. Should beavers move to The Lodge & help run the RSPB? Perhaps not – but they can help our NGOs restore complex habitats, beloved by a range of vanishing

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

When it comes to attracting the top scientists, engineers and inventors, the UK takes the approach of build-it-and-they-will-come. It lowers barriers to entry or makes the country more attractive to

Prof Susan Oosthuizen

DrSueOosthuizen

THREAD. Artificial watercourses across the Cambridgeshire #fenland are called ‘lodes’ locally - from the Old English (ge)lād (derived from the verb ‘to lead’) - because they lead water from one

Tom Finch

tomfinch89

New paper! #conservation #ornithology #agriculture Full text here (paywalled, sorry, I know. DM for pdf): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cobi.13316 @RSPBScience blog here: https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/biodiversity/posts/sp