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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · 14d

That's a wrap!

Fantastic to get phase 1 of the Landport Brooks project completed with initial ditch maintenance. 🚜👷💪

Next year's work aims to improve the ecological health & restore wet habitats of the floodplain grazing marsh. 🐦👌🐄

Great partnership with @LewesDistrictCouncil and @SDNP 👏

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · 19d

Fantastic sunny day for stream enhancements! 🐟🌞

River Rangers got stuck into channel clearing, bird hide weaving, strimming & reed cutting. 🙋‍♂️👏🙋‍♀️

Lucky to be serenaded by green woodpeckers, Cetti's warbler, kingfisher, buzzards and coots. The herons gave us a flyover too!

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · 21d

Very exciting to get phase 1 of the Landport Brooks restoration project underway this week with ditch management! 🚜👷💪

Over the course of the project interventions will benefit a range of wildlife & restore habitat in this floodplain grazing marsh!

Great partnership with Lewes District Council👏

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Countryside Jobs Service @countrysidejobs.bsky.social · 21d

Senior Project Officer - Urban Water Quality with @OuseAdurRT.bsky.social hybrid between Office in Pulborough and home working, full-time position c-js.uk/3VlVpdJ

Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust: Senior Project Officer - Urban Water Quality advertised with CJS

Full Time: 37.5 hours p/w Salary Band: £33,130 - £38,873 We're looking for a passionate and knowledgeable individual to take a lead in developing local understanding and increasing awareness of the…

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · 28d

Check out this film one of our volunteers was inspired to make after taking part in a chalk stream restoration day, removing non-native species & litter from the Lewes Winterbourne!🌾👍

Nice work, John White 👏

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · Aug 22

That's a wrap! A genuinely brilliant week of berm building with our unbelievable River Rangers to finish off our Teville stream restoration!🤩🪇👌

As well as 12 berms that remeander the stream, we've been translocating native marginal and wetland plants into last year's silt-filled berms.🌾💪💦 🐸🦋🐍🐟🐦

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · Aug 12

It seems the most surefire way of getting a heatwave is to book in a week of berm making!🔥☀️💦🤩

Huge kudos to our incredible volunteers restoring rivers in this heat! 🎖🪇🏅

Kingfishers, coots, rudd, frogs, & dragonflies have all been enjoying the remeandered Teville chalkstream! 🐸 🦋🦆🐟

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · Aug 8

Great to get the last stubborn patch of Himalayan Balsam removed from the top of Lewes Winterbourne!😍💪🐟🌿

One day, this chalkstream will be INNS free!

#invasivenonnativespecies

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · Jul 15

Not all heroes wear capes!

Some legends volunteer to restore chalk streams in a heatwave! 💦🔥

Great to get 4 berms completed in the last week. We can't wait to see the marginal habitat that emerges bursting with life! 🦆🐸🐟🐍🌿🦋🐞

Baby coots, grass snakes, fritillaries, and frogs have already visited!

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · Jul 8

A fantastically productive day out Balsam bashing. Cleared three large sections of bank on the Cockhaise Brook which flows into the Ouse. 💦🌿💪

Lovely to see native bird's-foot trefoil, purple loosestrife, water plantain, & water mint emerging on sections of river bank we have previously cleared 😀

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · Jul 1

Absolute legends making berms today to re-meander a straightened and over deepened bit of stream.

Thankfully plenty of shade to work in away from the scorching sun!

We got our first wildlife visitor too 🐸

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · Jun 20

📢📣Amazing opportunity klaxon!! 📢📣

Our friends and partners at Weald to Waves are hiring a Landscape Advisor to help restore biodiversity along a 100-mile nature recovery corridor through the heart of Sussex! 🦔🦇🦫🦆🐍🐟🐞🦋🌳

www.environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/106346-...

Spread the word! 🙏 🙌

Weald to Waves Landscape Advisor

We are seeking a knowledgeable and dedicated Landscape Advisor to join our team. You will serve as a crucial link between the project and local farmers and land managers, providing guidance on ...

www.environmentjob.co.uk

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thrilled to share what we've been up to for the last week, digging 3 huge new wildlife ponds as part of the Winterbourne chalk stream restoration plan!💪💦

These will support a wide diversity of wildlife, restore connectivity to the floodplain, provide flood attenuation & store carbon! 🐸🌱🐞🐍🦆🐟

Yay!

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · Jun 9

Super exciting to find such a great range of freshwater invertebrates continuing to thrive at our Cockshut wetland, including mayflies, diving beetles, ramshorn snails, cased caddis & dragonfly and damselfly larvae! 💦🪱🐚🪳😍

The diverse habitats are clearly supporting an abundance of life!🐍🐞🦋🐟🤩

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · Jun 5

A genuine delight to show the Western Sussex Rivers Trust & other local catchment partners around our EPIC and Cockshut wetlands today!👌🐟💦🐸

Loads of good knowledge sharing and ideas, despite the occasional drizzle!

#MakeRiversBendAgain

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · May 20

Really nice to see the resilience of our Cockshut wetland even after such a dry spring! ☀️🌡

More islands & marginal bank emerging but deep pools & the low flow channel are still going strong, providing vital wetland habitats for a wealth of wildlife! 🐸🪿🐍🐟🦋🐞

Great partnership @lewesdc.bsky.social 👏💪

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · May 18

Great to be out with the River Rangers again today, doing a site reptile survey, cutting reeds, lopping brambles, & removing spent rabbit guards.😘💦🐟🐍🌱

So many damsel & dragonflies buzzing the channel, & our volunteer Ian White spotted this lovely Mother Shipton moth! 🦋

Great work team💪💧👍

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · May 16

A fantastic end to #INNSWeek with two days of removing non-native species from one of our precious chalk streams! 🌱💦💪

Two truckloads of Himalayan Balsam, Cotoneaster, Leylandii, Cherry laurel, Crocosmia, Spanish bluebells, & Box-leaved honeysuckle removed from the Lewes Winterbourne!

Top effort 👏

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · May 10

It's #NationalHedgerowWeek! 🌳🌳🌳

Hedgerows play a vital role in enhancing rivers, creating corridors, slowing surface water & filtering pollutants. 🐟💦🌱

We're looking for opportunities to create new hedgerows like these ones we planted in 2020.

Get in touch to find out more: [email protected] 🌳🌳

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · May 9

Fantastic two days of erosion control on the Lewes Winterbourne chalk stream! 💪💦🙌

Over 30 bags of waste removed, including 4 rusty wheelbarrows & non-native species. Replaced with coir matting, which will get planted up with native hazel trees.🌱🌳

Thanks to our brilliant volunteers! 😘

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Debbie Alston @debbie1alston.bsky.social · Apr 22

An excellent morning looking around the Cockshut stream restoration project area near Lewes (with the Seaford Natural History Group). A single Cattle egret nearby and some very vocal Marsh frogs in the edge of the wetland. Walk led by Peter from @ouseadurrt.bsky.social

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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · Apr 14

Did you know it takes at least five years for a bluebell seed to grow into a bulb?

In the coming weeks, wide seas of violet will appear across ancient and semi-ancient woodland.

📷 Steven Brookwell
📍 Wiston Estate

#SouthDowns #Spring #Easter

Bluebells carpet a woodland floor with the sun poking through

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South East Rivers Trust @seriverstrust.bsky.social · Apr 10

What a wonderful day talking about #naturebasedsolutions. Chamber Mead #wetland filters over 250 million litres of water to help conserve the Hogsmill River, a rare #chalkstream. Find out more here: southeastriverstrust.org/chamber-mead-wetlands

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Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust @ouseadurrt.bsky.social · Apr 9

Great day spent with @seriverstrust.bsky.social sharing experience on their Chamber Mead wetlands and Hogsmill river projects!💧💪

Some great lessons learned on stream restoration 🐟💦👌

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Alistair Whitby @alistairwhitby.bsky.social · Apr 3

Great to see our urban wetlands in Ringmer looking great in the spring sunshine. Heron and ducks feeding and lots of native wetland plants on show.

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