Carl Sayer

A truly lovely & brilliant guy :)

Seeds and Fruits of Aquatic Plants of Northern Europe - A Handbook This book offers essential insights for identifying aquatic plant remains, enhancing research in palaeoecology and freshwater biology.

This looks like a corking book to me. Who needs New Nature writing when you can relax & sleep to this fine book for hard core botanists?
link.springer.com/book/9783032...

@jo-the-botanist.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social

Who can help? #Pond #paleoecology

Got to applaud any mention of the fine village of Norfolk!

Will be in c. 1-2 months

Thats a really brilliant story :)

Wonderful!!!!

Amazing. I am guessing not many now!

Will never forget...!!!!

A great day for sampling zooplankton at the Men's Bathing Pond, Hampstead Heath on our @uclgeography.bsky.social MSc Aquatic Conservation Lakes module. The Daphnia were in the lake centre likely due to avian predators pushing fish into the edge @thackers.bsky.social @freshwaterau.bsky.social

That does look good. You have done it again I am sure!!! Thankyou :)

Can anyone help @hayleymcmechan.bsky.social identify this seed from infill above a buried ancient pond? @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social @astridbiddle.bsky.social @annasolcova.bsky.social

Superb work!!!!

Just brilliant!!!

A hollow in the ground viewed from a ridge looking down at an arable field

#Ghostpond or natural hollow? Probably the latter but always worth investigating.

Garden #ponds. Anyone know of anyone who can advise?

A bat detector next to a restored pond in winter. It sits above a bullrush bed & points at open water

A bat detector next to a restored pond in winter

Do #bats visit restored farm #ponds vs. overgrown farm ponds & the surrounding landscape preferentially in winter? Well @davidjd.bsky.social & @stephenmulvey.bsky.social of @uclgeography.bsky.social & Norfolk Ponds are working on this @batconservation.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

A farm yard glacial erratic. Now I am looking it seems that every farm & country estate in Norfolk, eastern England has an erratic dug out of or found in the fields as a farm entrance stone. Luckily the geological wizard who is @timholtwilson.bsky.social can inform a little on these

Always be careful of yellow snow!

These are NOT snowdrops tho. They are clearly Pondweeds (Potamogeton).

A flooded palaeochannel on a remote chalk stream #floodplain. As food builds in this habitat it will become very attractive to fishes as long as the water stays. Rivers with lots of off channel habitat can probably support a much bigger #fish biomass. We need more river-connected floodplain

Pristine chalk streams have crystal clear waters even when in flood. They are set in wet woods habitat, there are no floodbanks & they are full of wood which the river has to move around. Hard to cast a fly but full of fish.

Man walks through flooded woodland palaeochannel pond in the snow

Proper winter biological sampling in flooded English chalk stream palaeochannel habitat yesterday for a single stone loach & a flotilla of mosquito larvae @reagan-envisci.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social

It is. Still much work to do. For a river to have burbot it needs to be really good!

Land of the extinct #burbot, River Wissey, E. England. The burbot, a freshwater codfish, was last seen in 1970. It needs floodplain slackwater for spawning. This is burbot heavan & whenever we survey this area there is anticipation. An aquatic Tasmanian tiger coming back soon...

Pond Restoration Training: 25th & 26th June 2026 — Freshwater Biological Association Ponds are increasingly being recognised as critical to biodiversity conservation in UK landscapes. This new two-day course will introduce participants to pond restoration science and best practice. Gr...

This @freshwaterbio.bsky.social #pond restoration training course 25th, 26th June is well worth attending. Learn how to restore degraded existing ponds & #ghostponds with Norfolk Ponds Project founders Carl Sayer & Helen Greaves:

www.fba.org.uk/shop/p/pond-...

Very proud (as team manager) that our joint @uclgeography.bsky.social & @uclcber.bsky.social "Bloomsbury Botanists" team were joint leaders at the end of @bucbotany.bsky.social Round 1. Watch out Oxford we are coming for you with sharpened spines!!!

A previously restored farmland #pond managed yesterday. Now you can see the forest horizon. A better habitat for aquatic plants, Great Crested Newt & all sorts of other creatures. This pond is bang in the middle of a big arable field yet everything goes to it

A flooded #palaeochannel #pond on a semi-natural English chalk stream floodplain. A great place for fishes on the move right now & for amphibians in a few months. By summer it will probably be dry. But while it is water-filled all sorts of species will use it

A farm #pond we restored in 2014 showing multiple valuable habitats. Open water with submerged plants, a thick bed of Typha, lightly vegetated shallow shelving edge, bramble patch, woodland fringe, mini ancient woodland meadow (promontary on R) with early purple orchid. All this in a tiny footprint