Gill

Professional gardener. Wildlife watcher & photographer. Ex NHS nurse defeated by the system. Still aiming to laugh at least once a day.

[🌻 Go Wild With Annette @writethewrongs2]

What the bloody hell is wrong with people? 😡

'No signs of life' in River Lugg after John Price destruction

An ECOLOGIST has warned that it could take up to 30 years for a river that has no "signs of life" to recover after it was "obliterated" by a local farmer.

Although then and now photos show that the landscape around the River Lugg near Kingsland has been drastically transformed, an ecologist has warned it could take decades to fully recover after farmer John Price used an 18-tonne digger to dredge a section.

Price also stripped a mile-long stretch of the bank of trees back in 2020.

He was jailed for 12 months in 2023 by a judge who told him he had committed "ecological vandalism on an industrial scale" along a section of one of Britain's most important salmon rivers.

He had claimed he had carried out the work to help protect locals in the nearby hamlet whose homes were devastated by flooding and to help fix riverbed erosion.

But the Environment Agency said the damage was one of the worst cases of riverside destruction it had ever seen, leading to a "devastating" effect on local wildlife - which has still not recovered six years on.

Although trees, bushes, and greenery are growing back around the river, a leading ecologist believes there are "no signs of life" in the river itself.

Environmental designer Richard Fishbourne said: "It is quite disturbing to see how much damage one person can cause in just a couple of days.
"When I went down recently there was no sign of any fish where you would usually expect to see minnows, graylings, trout and salmon.

"There's just no sign of life - there's nothing in the water here now and it has become an impoverished landscape.
"It can take decades to build up this wonderful community of species and habitat but it can all be destroyed in a moment of insanity."

More here:https://t.co/1MH3mRDo4A

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[k2 @KrisAnnapurna]

‼️Milagro en el Everest: Dawa Sherpa vive‼️

Se ha arrastrado al Campo Base del Everest sin comida, sin oxígeno, y sin ayuda.

Dawa Sherpa, guía sherpa de 52 años, fue abandonado por su expedición cerca de la Zona de la Muerte tras bajar con un cliente polaco con congelación.
Desaparecido desde el 29 de mayo! Sin comida, sin oxígeno y solo, sobrevivió 7 días a más de 7.000m. Cruzó el peligroso Khumbu Icefall sin escaleras y lo han encontrado hoy, el 4 de junio, arrastrándose hacia el Campo Base. (Lo han encontrado los de la limpieza.)

Rescatado con congelaciones graves y ya en hospital en Kathmandu.
📷Everest Today

[John Tippetts 🇺🇦🇬🇱 | johnmtippetts.bsky.social @JohnMTippetts]

The Icknield Way passes through the village of Linton in Cambridgeshire. I missed its most wonderful piece of engineering when I walked the trail last year, so I had to return. I give you the Linton Clapper Stile! A Grade II Listed Monument & 1 of just a few remaining in the UK!

[WeeMan @AntrimLens]

Lough Neagh midge forming mating smoke stacks this evening

[Alan @Alan_C_1]

Spotted by BILLY SHIELS BOAT TRIPS a couple of hours ago
#Seahouses
@NorthEastTweets
@thefarneislands

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

The first photo below is, believe it or not, of the aircraft-carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, taken off the north Cornish coast. It has been completely distorted and inverted by a process called Fata Morgana (after Morgana la Fay of Arthurian legend).

The second photo is what the HMS Queen Elizabeth normally looks like at sea.

Photo by Mike Hancock/St Ives Boats

@grok - Explain what a Fata Morgana is for those interested.

[Danny Spring @strangequark77]

One of the most photogenic thunderstorms I've seen in a long time. Biggleswade in Bedfordshire.
@liamdutton @ChrisPage90

[Liam Dutton @liamdutton]

There’s an isolated thunderstorm that’s formed north of Milton Keynes.

As there’s clear blue sky around it in all directions, it should be visible from 50-100 miles away.

Share a pic if you can see it!

Image: @Windycom

[Gill @Fleurfox]

@liamdutton @Windycom Kew Gardens 11:23hrs Looking North beyond Kew Palace. (Only just seen your post 🤪)

[The potting shed @GardenerFliss]

British pollinators. What a workforce ! Without this amazing team there would be no gardens or food for that matter. We must do our best to look after them, teach our kids they are friends and build habitats to show them how loved they really are.

[Met Office @metoffice]

We have provisionally broken the UK record for highest daily minimum temperature in May... again 😮

Temperatures didn't fall below 21.3°C overnight at Kenley Airfield, making it a 'tropical night' (no lower than 20°C).

Remarkably, the record was also broken yesterday.

[Met Office @metoffice]

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️

This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

[Kyiv. The City of Courage @Kyiv]

This may be the most infernal night in Kyiv since the start of the full-scale war. Dozens of ballistic missiles, crusie missiles, hypersonic missiles and drones attacking the capital non-stop. Explosions are so loud, that the ground is shaking. Just praying that everyone sees the sunrise alive and safe.

[Frank Gardner @FrankRGardner]

Common Spotted Orchid, growing wild in London today

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

You have to laugh, or you’d cry. Thanks to Citizen Khan for making me smile when all to often, I want to cry.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/BjjPF945T1

[Brian Ruadh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @BrianTheGael]

Eas Fors waterfall on the Isle of Mull. Its name is a fascinating linguistic repeat: "Eas" is the Scottish Gaelic word for waterfall, and "Fors" (derived from Old Norse) also means waterfall. Added to the English word, its literal meaning is "waterfall waterfall waterfall".
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

[Gill @Fleurfox]

https://t.co/qcxdbI5deO

[Gill @Fleurfox]

Hello #Hawaii Everyone ok?

[F.IKGM🌏イケガミ・ジオリサーチ @geoign]

トラブって時間がかかったのですが、漂流軽石のやばすぎる超高解像度写真が撮れました。いずれ論文にしますが、防災情報としての側面もあるので当座のご報告まで。
Submarine eruption at Bismarck Sea. An imagery tasked by Fumihiko Ikegami. Captured by Gokturk-1. Delivered by @SkyfiApp .