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River Ouse in York at 2.18 metres and falling steadily, back below 2 metres this afternoon 🐁

River Ouse in York at 2.94 metres and rising slowly, now getting very close to its peak Levels should fall back later today 🐁

@Rosewood_Farm @YNET4 The Greens are an urban party. If you don't know nature you don't really love and value it as Attenborough has said. Whilst access is good there are studies to show if you don't stick to the path, person with camera or dog, breeding birds are interfered with and driven away.

The Greens going for nature like it’s the last bit of cereal in the box that may as well be finished off rather than planting it to grow another crop…

We were visited by one of our local recorders in the office this week in preparation for some exciting work analysing farmland bird transect survey data from the Wolds. Together our job will be to see what we can infer of their abundance, distribution, and habitat preference 🪶

Seriously? A mass trespass in nesting season??? How can the right to roamers not realise it is a horrific policy for nature? @guyshrubsole @paulpowlesland please tell me that the press go this wrong and you are not planing a mass trespass? @OurSacredGrove fyi

An excellent contribution on the Sustainable Farming Incentive from Cat; "The option supporting a very rare habitat that needed a summer visit by an adviser to endorse its existence, (which couldn’t happen due to the abrupt closure of the scheme) OBVIOUSLY had a low uptake."

April Fools come early!?

The state of our Water Industry in the international press for all the wrong reasons..

First hedgehog of 2026 appeared tonight at the dish of sunflower hearts put out for the visiting pheasants...it's still winter!

"Dirty Business creator on raw sewage scandal: ‘This is the worst possible situation we’ll accept without starting a revolution’." Maybe that's what it's going to take. One way or another govt is going to have to take its head out of the toilet and confront the ownership and financing of the water industry. There is no other option. independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

As #DirtyBusiness @Channel4 highlights the appalling environmental and human impact of sewage dumping private water companies, it’s worth revisiting our paper @NatureWaterJnl on the strategies employed to undermine science and deflect blame nature.com/articles/s4422…

It’s interesting that the Environment Agency are apparently interested in ‘nature recovery’, as on my river they are threatening to prosecute me for building a pond without a permit, whilst not prosecuting a single one of the serious illegal sewage spills that have been going on for decades. It’s all about priorities I guess?

Bucket: £10 Waders: £30 Measuring jug: 90p Ammonia tester: £100 Actually going out to check a sewage outfall that illegally discharges 750,000,000 million litres of sewage every year? Priceless. There are some things a government regulator with a budget of £189,000,000 & 12,000 staff can’t do. For everything else, there’s volunteer river guardians.

@JoeWStanley Don’t forget to mention the total loss of endorsed actions including species rich grasslands and floodplain meadows.

Wildfire risk - new report by Ordnance Survey. I know you lot were all discussing: ordnancesurvey.co.uk/insights/how-l… Some key stats (borrowed from LinkedIn): That 7% of homes across Britain lie within a zone which is increasingly exposed to wildfire vulnerabilities due to climate change and human behaviour. - That over 1.8 million British homes sit within the first 100 metres of urban-rural edges. - And that Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Essex, Kent, and Lancashire have the highest number of homes located within this 100 metre distance of urban edges. @stellastafford @MurrrrMurray @AlBuHarg @HenryBarber

One of only two Cherry Plum in Swaledale I know of (no others recorded) just coming into flower. Surely there are more? (Distribution map from plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9h.…)

“The projected cost has ballooned to £300m–£400m as the scope of the works has expanded.” This is massively over inflated. Stop privatisation for profit. theguardian.com/business/2026/…

Our February 2026 Monad of the Month is TA0357, located near Driffield, East Yorkshire! 📍This series highlights under-recorded squares in our LERC area where we have few records. Could you record there? neyedc.org.uk/updates-insigh…