Mark Yeldham

Lovely new wildlife pond replacing the old leaky one in Heigham Park @NorwichCC

@kloppman1970 @ITV They are feral black swans that nest during the winter.

@itv reporting on the storm in Dawlish, saying a swan nest with eggs has been washed away. Odd since they don't start laying until March/April. They just making shit up to make out it's worse than it actually is?

Oh, Faraaz! 🤦 #TheTraitors

@jasperfforde Early Riser 2?

Shit photo 🤔

Probably someone shiny green lasers at the sky 🤣

I can see the bloody Aurora Borealis right now, in Norwich, in the cloud and rain! Is that even possible? @aurorawatchuk @VirtualAstro

@AnimalEcology Nice. Not sure the fish in the graphic will be moving anywhere fast though! 💀

📊 New review. Sweat the small stuff: A review of the use of accelerometers to estimate energy expenditure in wild animals ➡️ buff.ly/9XJbIwT "The review will accelerate adoption of best practices so the field can continue to gain momentum"

New tongue twister: Frankie flamingo flew to France

Just had a flock of ~15 parakeets fly over my house in Norwich. Had no idea there was a population here.

When were we supposed to get this emergency alert? Or have @ThreeUK mucked up again?

@MarkSmyth1960 @BBCSpringwatch Very nice. Mark of Bristol Swifts had the start of a second brood this year as well, although the adults eventually ejected the eggs as only one was incubating bristolswifts.co.uk/bristol-swifts… He mentioned that there have been a handful of records of second broods as well.

Very exciting news from Northern Ireland. #apusapus #commonswift #actionforswifts #swiftconservation #saveourswifts @BBCSpringwatch #northernirelandswifts #swiftconservationireland northernirelandswifts.com/doublebroodeds…

@WriterHannahBT Not since the start of the week

Any swifts ?

The second looks at the response of shad and sea lamprey to different methods of restoring river connectivity. It finds that weir modification restored river connectivity, whilst fish passes allowed fish to pass barriers on significantly lower flows: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

The first discusses the influence of the tidal cycle on migration delays for twaite shad at head-of-tide weirs, finding significant migration delays, where passage was limited to windows of high tidal influence: doi.org/10.1007/s12237…

I'm happy to share two new publications on the influence of migration barriers on anadromous fish migrations.

The ladybird invasion has now spread inland from Lowestoft to Norwich 🐞

Ladybirds absolutely everywhere today!

@lizardschwartz What do you do if the adult is ready to be released but the baby is still just a baby!?

Mum and baby are doing well. Baby is growing fast! #BatCare

Don't worry though, it all settled down eventually #LoverNotAFighter @swiftsweek @swifts_uk @BBCSpringwatch

No more scraps with starlings, but after three weeks on its own the swift finally welcomed its mate home by starting a fight with it!