Tracey Doherty

Opinions expressed are my own. Wildlife, wetlands, rivers, rewilding, rough collies, lynx, tigers and maine coons are my thing!

[Tracey Doherty @Rewildmidlands]

@Exoticca please can you get in touch with our group in Cape Town and advise us how we will be travelling to victoria falls after BA flights were cancelled today.

[Tracey Doherty @Rewildmidlands]

@AJPhillipson @ortambo_int @HealthZA @adamwbye @FCDOGovUK @Airports_ZA Apologies, we have been in transit all day. I have followed you. 👍

[Tracey Doherty @Rewildmidlands]

@Cloe323391042 @AJPhillipson @ortambo_int @HealthZA @adamwbye @FCDOGovUK @Airports_ZA Well done Claire. I tried but they just would not accept our UK documents. We have been in transit all day to get to Kruger but due back at the airport in 3 days for flight to Cape Town so hoping it is all sorted by then 🤞🏻

[Natural England @NaturalEngland]

Now is the best time of year to create a wildflower meadow for bees in your garden.

🏡Mow the lawn
🖐️Press wildflower seeds in to patches of bare ground
⌛️Wait and watch nature create a wildflower meadow

Will you help #savebees ? https://t.co/XzUtpH2ABe

[Tracey Doherty @Rewildmidlands]

Great work #TeamEA. This type of work is so effective, balancing risk with need to keep river habitat features in place on a recovering river to support fish and wildlife. The Tame was once dead to life but not anymore. Grayling, barbel, eel, pike, bullhead. It supports them all.

[Environment Agency Midlands @EnvAgencyMids]

This large willow tree was spanning the River Tame near Kingsbury #Warwickshire just upstream of a road bridge.

We’ve cut it back before it detaches & blocks the bridge but we've left the base & lower limbs in the river so it can regrow, protect the bank & give cover for #fish

[Tracey Doherty @Rewildmidlands]

@EnvAgencyMids @chalmers_m Brilliant work.

[River Mease Catchment @MeaseRiver]

It's a tricky balance between ensuring adequate capacity for base flows whilst retaining important woody debris in the channel. Careful and selective thinning happening today thanks to @Boreal_Trees @EnvAgencyMids

[Tracey Doherty @Rewildmidlands]

Wow!

[River Mease Catchment @MeaseRiver]

The heavy rain last week put our newly re-profiled banks to the test. Here we see the bank in low and high flows. The sloped bank before the reeds is acting as a backwater and fish refuge in the higher flows.

[Ian Gordon @IanGordon805]

Bearded Vulture, unconcerned by the birders traffic and sugar beet harvesting going on around it.

[Ian Gordon @IanGordon805]

Showing well

[Rutland Ospreys @rutlandospreys]

4K(13) is just about to cross into Northern Senegal! Very close now 🦅

[David James @dave_b_james]

What a day today was! Job interview in the morning followed by a Lammergeier twitch in the afternoon and then getting home to receive a phone call to say I'd got the job! It must be time for a beer to celebrate!!

[Plantlife @Love_plants]

Why road verges are important habitats for wildflowers and animals
Ace long read on #RoadVerges from @yvonneds & Lisa Hendry for @NHM_London >

https://t.co/nhQrsXSueT

@katefpetty @DrTrevorDines

[Severn Trent @stwater]

Gross picture alert ! It’s #Unblocktober- an awareness month to improve the health of our drains, sewers and water courses. Look at this blockage found in Coleshill- how did the golf balls get in there? To avoid blockages, please only flush pee, poo and toilet paper!

[Nick Mott @NickMott7]

Bracken bundle set on 1-9-20 & monitored on 5-10-20

23 White-claws: 11 females & 7 males (Carapace Length from 13.9-32.3mm) & 5 juveniles (CL: <10mm)
@CrayfishIAA

[Nick Mott @NickMott7]

White-clawed #Crayfish collection using a technique developed by @DrRotokakahi based on a traditional Maori fishing method

This bracken bundle had 23 white-claws in it. Video by @Ashley_S_NW

@CrayfishIAA @StaffsWildlife @EnvAgencyMids @SouthWestPeak

[Nick Mott @NickMott7]

Endangered White-clawed #Crayfish

We often find them using cans & bottles as refuges

Be careful when you're doing your stream cleans. Thanks!

@WatersideCare @KeepBritainTidy @theriverstrust @WildlifeTrusts @StaffsWildlife @CrayfishIAA @CaBAtweets