Nicola CrockfordSheer bliss, even on a grey day, to be in a #chalkstream for first time in >4 months & a thrill to spend my 1st ever quality time with big Graylings - what friendly fish! - in the River Nar upstream of Narborough. Thanks Alec Birkbeck & Fraser Bradbury for permission! #MySwim #Rivers #Norfolk đ§”1/9
What kept me going on up thro the silty lengths of Hoffer Brook was that exciting strands of River Water-Crowfoot (Ranunculus fluitans), queen of #chalkstream #macrophytes, began appearing despite silt. Suggested things were better further up this River Cam tributary. #rivers #wildflowerhour 16/23
Likewise, good growth of that other #chalkstream stalwart, Fool's Watercress (Helosciadium nodiflorum) in Hoffer's Brook from A10 to railway. The silt made it a slog swimming up until the top end where the water speeded up revealing the clean gravels & chalk substrate. If only all like that! 15/23
Is a river alive, asked @[email protected]. Yesterday Hoffer Brook, tributary of the Cam, seemed v alive, not least hosting these Brook Lampreys which have presumably performed such frantic breeding rituals in this #chalkstream for many millennia, long before we came & messed it up. 23/23
AquaClaire@numenini.bsky.social ... & the Greater Cambridge Chalkstream Project
https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/greater-cambridge-chalk-stream-project
- talking of regenerative farming & evidence-based restoration, helped by volunteers & citizen science. Here's hoping!
#Cambridge #chalkstream #rivers
https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/greater-cambridge-chalk-stream-project
- talking of regenerative farming & evidence-based restoration, helped by volunteers & citizen science. Here's hoping!
#Cambridge #chalkstream #rivers
@numenini.bsky.social Hi Nicola, thanks for documenting your explorations of these #chalkstream tributaries of the #RiverCam - glad to see some trout!
Seeking a map for context, I found these two helpful:
https://www.rivercam.org.uk/our-catchment/
https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/pvl1//river/map_strategy.jpg
Can't believe it's >4 months since last interacted with a #chalkstream! Today explored 3 parallel tributaries of the River Cam: TL is the lovely Hoffer Brook btw Harson & Foxton, rest are the rather pathetic Rhee, TR at Foxton & below at Fowlmere - little more than a ditch. #MyWalk #Rivers đ§”1/10
@thenorfolkcoast Terrific news, via update on that page: over 800 donors stepped up to fund purchase of Court House Meadows, a beautiful stretch of the River Meon, for the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.
Marc RotheraAnyone interested in helping to preserve our #ChalkStream #Rivers then there is a lauch conference event at our #Cambridge campus on 16th July, you can sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/greater-cambridge-chalk-stream-project-gccsp-launch-conference-tickets-1407358650609
#ARUProud to see our involvement in this project to try and protect our precious #ChalkStream #rivers
