Matthew Hopkins

Ecologist, ecology, environmental consultancy, fish, invertebrates, badger, bat, bats, invertebrate, water quality, hydro, wind farm, es, otter, water, voles,

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This week offers some downtime while I take the wee man fishing in the Lake District and deliberately apply Dr Wallace J. Nichols’s idea of the blue mind.

The concept proposes that contact with “blue spaces”—rivers, lakes, can produce measurable gains in mental wellbeing.

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[Traffic Scotland @trafficscotland]

Tips for driving in SNOW ⚠

🚙If skidding, do not take your hands off the wheel or brake, steer into skid
🔆Use dipped headlights/fog lights to be more visible
❗Gentle manoeuvres
🛑Increase stopping distances

#KeepCalm https://t.co/yDupDpewg4

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I made a Pledgeball pledge! https://t.co/kPBCtVS5ny

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@theroyalparks Oasis

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More Temple Sowerby Swifts #SwiftAwarenessWeek

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#SwiftAwarenessWeek the many swifts of Temple Sowerby

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@Natures_Voice 12 Swifts seen in a "screaming party" at Dunning Primary School near Perth

[Mike McKenzie @MikeMcKen8]

Red-Throated Diver having an early morning yawn

[Raptor Persecution UK @RaptorPersUK]

Osprey chick hatches at Poole Harbour - the first in southern England for 200 years.

Huge congrats to conservation heroes @harbourbirds @harbourospreys @RoyDennisWF @timmackrill @BrittanyMaxted @LivCooper23 @Allen2Lucy

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@ChargeYourCar app will not allow me to register a payment card with a start date beyond 2019. Is there going to be an update?

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Environmental and Integrated Management Systems Consultant https://t.co/KKjPA80Teb

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Just watching this now. Depessing amount of plastic bags being consumed by marine life. Time to change. https://t.co/a0xzPj53uz https://t.co/QVd8nkN5Ko

[Colin Bean @ProfColinBean]

A really nice account of pink salmon egg trial work on the Spey @FishtheNess @EvaThorstad @edeeyto @chris_harrod
https://t.co/x3u4ISwDSX

[BBC Springwatch @BBCSpringwatch]

If you can find a red deer more majestic than this chap then you win the internet for today ❄️

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[BBC Springwatch @BBCSpringwatch]

It took the team at WWT Martin Mere four weeks to build the world's biggest bug hotel, but it looks AMAZING!

[Chris Harrod @chris_harrod]

Got a good CV & looking for a postdoc? Fancy coming to Chile to do cool stuff with isotopes (bulk & compound specific)? [email protected] https://t.co/jx533WEJao