Save Wincheap Water Meadows

The Save Wincheap Water Meadows Campaign aims to prevent an Area of High Landscape Value on Canterbury's River Stour from becoming a carpark.

[Save Wincheap Water Meadows @MeadowsSave]

Fantastic Launch to the #GreatStourRiverfest2024 yesterday in #Canterbury! Great work by @canterburycc, @EnvAgency and local community groups. Look out for lots more celebrations of the River Stour in the run-up to #WorldRiversDay next Sunday. @WildwoodTrust @KentishStourCP

[Kingsmead Field @kingsmeadfield]

So thrilling to find two little elvers in the #Stour during yesterday afternoon's family river-dipping at Kingsmead Field. Many thanks to @KentishStourCP for hosting the event as part of the very first Great Stour Riverfest! @canterburycc

[Sian Pettman @PettmanSian]

Take part in the Big River Watch this weekend to mark World Rivers Day!

[Sian Pettman @PettmanSian]

Don't miss the great line-up of events in Canterbury's first ever Festival of the Stour - the #GreatStourRiverfest. Many thanks to @canterburycc and all the community groups involved. @EnvAgency @KentishGazette @KentishStourCP @CanterburyBID
https://t.co/HhdfcGzfe8

[Sian Pettman @PettmanSian]

We've done it! 1000 signatures on the e-petition calling on @canterburycc to adopt a Biodiversity Emergency Declaration! Thank you for signing and sharing. Looking forward to a cross-party debate at Council on 20 July. @cantlabourgroup @Cantlibdem @canterburycca @CburyGreens

[Sian Pettman @PettmanSian]

We have 787 e-signatures on the ePetition to @canterburycc calling for the adoption of a #Biodiversity Emergency Declaration. We just need another 213 by 5pm on 12 July to ensure a cross-party debate at the Council meeting on 20 July. Please support! https://t.co/ZXFTaZn1iV

[Kent Wildlife Trust @KentWildlife]

📢We are supporting this petition calling for Canterbury City Council to call for the adoption of a Biodiversity Emergency Declaration 👇 Please sign and share far and wide!

https://t.co/6435f9KLbc

#biodiversity #NoPlanetB #Emergency

[Save Wincheap Water Meadows @MeadowsSave]

1 July is National Meadows Day - let's help turn the tide in nature's decline...

[Sian Pettman @PettmanSian]

The UK has lost 97% of its wildflower meadows since the 1930s. If you live, work or study in Canterbury District, please mark #nationalmeadowsday today by signing the e-petition calling on @canterburycc to adopt a Biodiversity Emergency Declaration: https://t.co/0DlHp2496i

[Save Wincheap Water Meadows @MeadowsSave]

Many thanks to @kentwildlife for their support for the community campaign calling on @canterburycc to adopt a Biodiversity Emergency Declaration. We need another 550 signatures needed to trigger a council debate on 20 July! @mikesole @MikeBland210434 @Alister4KCC @Roben_Franklin

[Kent Wildlife Trust @KentWildlife]

We are supporting this petition calling for Canterbury City Council to call for the adoption of a Biodiversity Emergency Declaration 👇

Please sign and share far and wide!

https://t.co/JgLLDhZzvA

[Save Wincheap Water Meadows @MeadowsSave]

1000 signatures needed by 20 July for the e-petition calling on @canterburycc to adopt a #biodiversity emergency declaration to support its #climatechange one. Please help by signing and sharing! @kentwildlife @wildwoodtrust @PaulHadaway3 @CanterburyCLP

https://t.co/kAc4HDgLcI

[Save Wincheap Water Meadows @MeadowsSave]

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[nicola crockford @numenini]

The grand finale to a day snorkelling 6 stretches of an 8.5km length of the River Great Stour centred on Canterbury, was to find these holes, tunnels through the vegetation, and willow cutting workshops in areas of flattened vegetation of some very busy beavers. #Westbere 25/25

[nicola crockford @numenini]

Vis. in Westbere Lake, on blissful indian summer evening, too poor for snorkelling & Great Stour not much better tho' saw several huge Common Bream in the murk of this river that, by Westbere, has lost its chalk stream characteristics. Rigid Hornwort & ? in adjacent ditch. 23/25

[nicola crockford @numenini]

At Fordwich, the Stour's a bit silty, poorer visibility - lots jetsum incl. a wallet. Immediately up from rather grim, silty inflow from N, just W of village, lovely clean sands/gravels & chalkstream plants reappear, with shoals of juv roach & Pea Shell Cockle (Pisidium). 21/25

[nicola crockford @numenini]

Also living in the Dean's Mill culvert, some huge Chub, every now & then drifting out into the teeming sunlit clouds of young Roach & Dace who were also enjoying the pool at the outflow from the culvert. #GreatStour #Canterbury #Kent #Chalkstreams #Dace #Roach #TeamFish 18/25

[nicola crockford @numenini]

Mesmerising privilege to spend time in midst of great, shimmering shoals of young Roach & Dace (with lurking Perch). What a productive fish nursery the Great Stour seems! Dean's Mill, Canterbury is clearly a fish paradise, despite the rubbish.
@EnvAgencySE #Chalkstreams
16/25

[Save Wincheap Water Meadows @MeadowsSave]

What wonderful clear images of the life in the Stour - right on our doorstep!

[nicola crockford @numenini]

Fabulous chalk stream fish right in heart of Canterbury. Never seen higher density of Stone Loaches than at St Dunstan's Bridge, plus the usual characterful Bullheads. Several Brown Trout parr & a weird-looking adult zapped past - Rainbow or Sea Trout? @EnvAgencySE ⁩#Kent 11/25

[Save Wincheap Water Meadows @MeadowsSave]

The river Stour is 'World Class Natural Heritage' - now that's something that we should really be proud of.

[nicola crockford @numenini]

Wow, Canterbury! You're SO lucky to be among v few cities on the planet to have a crystal-clear, trout-inhabited, Water Crowfoot-draped chalk stream running thro' your heart! @UNESCO #CulturalWorldHeritage yes, but you also have world class natural heritage. @GoCanterbury_UK 9/25

[nicola crockford @numenini]

By the Hambrook Marshes railway bridge, clouds of Minnow fry, Minnows being the most abundant & ubiquitous fish in the Canterbury stretch of the River Great Stour, with River Water Dropwort the primary submergent plant, a bit silty in places. Some nice banks of Watercress. 7/25

[nicola crockford @numenini]

Such a treat to see so many young Dace among the masses of Minnows in the Great Stour during each dip I took between Hambrook Marshes and Fordwich, tho' I saw not a single adult. Also lots of Gudgeon plus quite a few Chub, Perch & Three-spined Sticklebacks. #HambrookMarshes
6/25