A lovely afternoon yesterday working with Coldingham Brave Bayers to monitor river health at one of their favourite swimming spots

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Abundant Caddisfly larvae in River Little Ouse; colonies ?Welshman's Button(Sericostoma personatum); on a cow bone, Agapetus fuscipes? as well as Brown Sedge (Anabolia nervosa); ?Cinnamon Sedge (Limnephilus lunatus) & mayfly nymph; Grannom (Brachycentrus subnubili) & snail eggs. #riverflies #invert

#Riverflies are ‘canaries of the river’. Monitoring #Riverfly populations is a great way to evaluate river health. Completed my training with the Tweed Foundation. My journey began when listening to Robert Macfarlane talk about his book, ‘Is A River Alive’, last August. @riverflies.bsky.social

Today I saw a blue-winged olive hatch. It was amazing to see it shed its skin while in the water and in no time hatch out and fly away 😀 No footage unfortunately #bluewingedolive #riverflies #mayflies