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[Love My River! @SDG1864]

Excellent Sunday spent on the Tawd, providing RiverFly certificates to a couple of members of the Friends of Tawd Valley. They wasted no time in putting their skills to the test in Cobbs clough. @GroundworkCLM
@DouglasPilot
@Westlancsbc @TawdFriends

[Love My River! @SDG1864]

Excellent day yesterday at The Mere on one of the pilots for LakeFly! A still water version of RiverFly that will be used to assess the health of Lakes! Thanks to Rachel for being an excellent tutor! Sam and I can now monitor Lakes as well as Rivers!

[Friends of Tawd Valley @TawdFriends]

Team Tawd and WLBC Rangers were out this morning repairing the river path, damaged by recent rains. In another part of the park, Ranger Hannah, FoTV's Mike and the Groundwork Super Sam's walked the Valley to discuss exciting upcoming Tawd projects. Thank you for the hard work.

[Love My River! @SDG1864]

Excellent morning clearing up Parsons meadow, Wigan. Volunteer effort was tremendous and a lot of hard work went into getting a lot of this rubbish out of the stream bed! Look out for more in the future! @Lancswildlife @DouglasPilot @greenheartlands @EnvironmentTime

[Friends of Tawd Valley @TawdFriends]

The rain didn't stop our intrepid troop of fungi finders this morning as we explored the Tawd Valley Park with the help of the fabulous mushroom expert - Mark Buxton-Kelly. Thank you to Mark and to @WLBC_Rangers for organising this event.

[Mike Flaherty @Flickamatuta]

Two bags of litter collected and a shopping trolley pulled from the banks of the river Tawd in this afternoon's litter-pick around Tawd Valley Park and surrounding areas. I appreciate all the "Thank yous" I received from passers-by.

[Douglas Catchment @DouglasPilot]

Team Douglas @GroundworkCLM @SDG1864 working with @theriverstrust @MerseyRivers @unitedutilities sister catchments @RiversReturn + partners inc @mgenvtrust to max opps for a coordinated approach how we record citizen science. Read more about #CaSTCo here! https://t.co/ekeRinhI5J

[Love My River! @SDG1864]

Check out our new "Nature and Biodiversity Toolkit" here and find out what your business/company can do to help restore a resilient and biodiverse environment! https://t.co/BUkA9bgU6u

[Douglas Catchment @DouglasPilot]

Rivington Terrace Gardens Festival of Light! Another blinder of an event in 2023. Love My River Team & @BlackpoolCT joined @GroundworkCLM @RivingtonTG and Friends Group volunteering to keep the event safe and enjoyable! Wonderful Friday night! 🍄🌎🦇🐾🍁🍂🌖🔥⚡️💫

[Love My River! @SDG1864]

Check out this link to see how you can get involved in one of our latest river projects looking at water quality and invertebrate life. The project will be in tandem with Ribble Rivers Trust. https://t.co/1P2kAz8iOQ @DouglasPilot @RibbleTrust

[Mike Flaherty @Flickamatuta]

Really enjoyed ourselves at the @RibbleTrust RiverBlitz today. Staff were fantastic and venue was beautiful. Well organised, engaging and interesting. We were proud to represent @TawdFriends. What was the name of the café that did the breakfast? Yummy!!! Thank you.

@EnvAgencyNW

[Mike Flaherty @Flickamatuta]

Great minds think alike. On my litter-pick this afternoon I met @Northern_Birder pulling trolleys from the river Tawd and tribs', so we joined forces and pulled out 12 SHOPPING TROLLEYS between us and litter-picked 2 bags of rubbish from Tawd Valley Park and surrounding areas.

[Mike Flaherty @Flickamatuta]

£500!!! How did that happen??? Thank you so much to everyone who has donated. I really appreciate it. You're all amazing!

[Mike Flaherty @Flickamatuta]

Good news for our rivers and waterways. @DouglasPilot @HelenLDix @MarkHChampion @River_Douglas_ @SDG1864 @WildTroutTrust @Wingate_Wood @RibbleTrust @JackSpees @EnvironmentTime https://t.co/QBHEXoUSRD

[Friends of Tawd Valley @TawdFriends]

Unfortunately, we found a live Signal Crayfish in Tawd Valley Park this afternoon, caught in a puddle after the river flooded its bank after heavy rainfall. ASC are an INNS and can cause serious issues for native wildlife. We have reported this incident to the Environment Agency.

[Friends of Tawd Valley @TawdFriends]

A busy day for FoTV, WLBC Ranger Service and Groundwork as they joined wildlife filmmakers from Salford University to take video footage of the fish species that can be seen at the bottom of Cobb's Clough Weir. Then a WHPT river invertebrate survey in the afternoon. Fantastic!

[Mike Flaherty @Flickamatuta]

Someone trying to ruin all the hardwork that's gone into cleaning up the River Tawd. I've reported this to the Environment Agency. Possible natural iron deposit, but seems strange coming from a CSO.

It's a shame as two kingfishers have just flown past, too. 😔

[Douglas Catchment @DouglasPilot]

Lancashire’s first Community Climate Forum hosted by @edgehill Green Flag Award Winners for 10th year. A university with authentic green credentials bringing together local community groups & partners to discuss how we collectively mitigate climate change https://t.co/L6VUfim80f

[Douglas Catchment @DouglasPilot]

@TawdFriends @edgehill @Flickamatuta @WLBC_Rangers @RibbleTrust @JackSpees @SDG1864 @GroundworkCLM @SkemNews @Westlancsbc Great to be out in force as friends of green spaces and waterways! Catchment representation for Lancashire was top notch!@TawdFriends @GroundworkCLM @SDG1864 @RibbleTrust @EnvAgencyNW @JackSpees

[Douglas Catchment @DouglasPilot]

Glorious day @GroundworkGM Trafford with @GroundworkCLM Love My River Douglas Team. Our Northern Trusts united to welcome, educate & up-skill local communities & business about improving water habitats for people & wildlife. Managing water resources in drought/flood also key!