Anna Cooper

Ex Headteacher, coach , consultant, adviser and wildlife lover. Also on Bluesky @cheshireinnorfolk.bsky.social

[Anna Cooper @AnnaCooper10]

@AlfieSteer Congratulations Dr. Steer

[Susie @suzannejones117]

Well as they are telling us we have no right to fresh water. We are hurtling back to beyond Victorian times. Quite unbelievable.

[Anna Cooper @AnnaCooper10]

@davidbezartist Beautiful David

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Welsh Water faces £44.7m 'enforcement package' for sewage failings."

The most abhorrent part in all of all of this is that Ofwat has just admitted that since 1994 when the sewage treatment regulations were introduced Welsh Water, like every other sewage company in the UK have been breaking the law.

That's 37 years of illegal activity, 37 years of incompetence, 37 years of failure, 37 years of the gross, violent, decimation of our rivers and beaches.

Where's the justice for them, where's the justice for bill players, where's the accountability, why aren't Ofwat's board now being prosecuted for misconduct in public office?

https://t.co/gn0tyg66Ti

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

Clarion Housing destroyed an active swift colony by demolishing a building early, breaching the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Tell the Surrey Police crime commissioner to enforce the law 👉https://t.co/cZqGFTt3uc It’s #worldswiftday but no one gives a monkeys.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

[Anna Cooper @AnnaCooper10]

@RetirementTales Go well and thanks for it all. It brought back treasured memories. It's been a joy xx

[Anna Cooper @AnnaCooper10]

@LissaKEvans @wildflower_hour Too late with my ID. A lovely plant. I used a great app called Obsidentify that a birder and naturalist recommended to me. It's ace

[Anna Cooper @AnnaCooper10]

@MargaretJobes @RetirementTales Inspectors were HMIs. Critical friends of the best kind. Knowledgeable, challenging, interested and kind

[Anna Cooper @AnnaCooper10]

@llewelyn20 Swifts are magical. Their glorious calls are music for the soul. We're currently in Menorca, a retired HT's benefit, a there are loads of them.

[Anna Cooper @AnnaCooper10]

@owen_jermy There will always be something you haven't finished. That's the way of it. Just aim to leave it tidy and handed over and then.....the world's your oyster xx

[Anna Cooper @AnnaCooper10]

@RetirementTales Children are messages of hope we send to a future we will not see. (Neil.Postman) That and 'ours is a hope profession' are two quotations I sent my trainees, SLT, NPQH EX HTS off with . It is privilege and a joy to be a teacher

[UKSwifts @swifts_uk]

Please retweet and spread the word!
What to do when you find a grounded swift 👇

[ACHUB PENRHOS / SAVE PENRHOS NATURE RESERVE 🍃💚🍃 @PenrhosSave]

How could anyone think that this haven for Red squirrels and other flora and fauna should be destroyed for a tourist holiday camp , 1000 space car park, we as a cic ( community interest company ) want a community buy out . The 79th group who bought penrhos from land and lakes last year ,went into administration after allegations of fraud.The administrators running the account /site have placed penrhos for sale with estate agents Lambert Smith Hampton by closed bid !

📸David Jones& John Trac Jones

[Anna Cooper @AnnaCooper10]

@LeeBraganza How lovely, Lee. What a great tribute. Must have taken ages to make - such skill x

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

And there is the reality.

All of the promises, all the rhetoric, all the empty, meaningless words.

Welsh Water at its finest.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Sickening sight and smell as human sewage pours into Carmarthenshire river."

So it's all been going on in Wales this weekend. Welsh Water really are a joke.

https://t.co/QRvIWjyVu3

[Anna Cooper @AnnaCooper10]

@LissaKEvans @jo_bartosch @Tate Oh that's dreadful. We're in the sticks so don't get to visit often but that is the most fabulous painting

[Stephen Foster @Stephen47629998]

Disgusted to see that @wessexwater have blocked access for swallows to get to their nesting site at Tonedale water treatment works. The pair have bred there for at least the last 3 years.

[Mr G @DeputyGrocott]

I’ve put a load of my most popular files together in a Dropbox folder. Let me know if you’d like the link. Can I also ask that you share this post pretty please 🙏 (as it seems the only way to get anything seen nowadays!). 😊