Tees Rivers Trust
@teesriverstrust.bsky.social
From source to sea, the Tees Rivers Trust is committed to protecting, improving and conserving the River Tees and its tributaries!
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We are the only conservation body committed to the management and improvement of the whole Tees catchment 🌊 and we’re excited to share our invasive species, estuarine, habitat restoration, education and other work here 🐟
We are the only conservation body committed to the management and improvement of the whole Tees catchment 🌊 and we’re excited to share our invasive species, estuarine, habitat restoration, education and other work here 🐟
🌊 Exciting news! We’re working with Turner and Townsend early careers team to install a native oyster nursery in the Tees Estuary—boosting water quality & biodiversity. They will be aiding in project management and volunteer engagement. Stay tuned for updates! #Marineconservation #Oysters
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🌊 Exciting news! We’re working with Turner and Townsend early careers team to install a native oyster nursery in the Tees Estuary—boosting water quality & biodiversity. They will be aiding in project management and volunteer engagement. Stay tuned for updates! #Marineconservation #Oysters
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Three reasons to avoid cutting back dead stems and seed heads this winter:
🐞 Hollow stems provide homes for hibernating insects, such as lacewings and ladybirds
🌻 Birds feed on seed heads like teasels, sunflowers and thistles
❄️ They look good when dusted with frost or snow!
🐞 Hollow stems provide homes for hibernating insects, such as lacewings and ladybirds
🌻 Birds feed on seed heads like teasels, sunflowers and thistles
❄️ They look good when dusted with frost or snow!
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Three reasons to avoid cutting back dead stems and seed heads this winter:
🐞 Hollow stems provide homes for hibernating insects, such as lacewings and ladybirds
🌻 Birds feed on seed heads like teasels, sunflowers and thistles
❄️ They look good when dusted with frost or snow!
🐞 Hollow stems provide homes for hibernating insects, such as lacewings and ladybirds
🌻 Birds feed on seed heads like teasels, sunflowers and thistles
❄️ They look good when dusted with frost or snow!
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In the winter, wild brown trout spawn in rivers across the country. The nests (or "redds") can sometimes be seen from the riverbank, but a great way to spot them is from above. In this video, we take a drone tour of an upper River Aire tributary - how many redds can you see? youtu.be/gyCl60tIVfY
Spotting Redds in a River Aire Tributary
YouTube video by Wild Trout Trust
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December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In the winter, wild brown trout spawn in rivers across the country. The nests (or "redds") can sometimes be seen from the riverbank, but a great way to spot them is from above. In this video, we take a drone tour of an upper River Aire tributary - how many redds can you see? youtu.be/gyCl60tIVfY
We didn't know this...
Did you know that squirrels don’t hibernate? Despite this common misconception, both red and grey squirrels are active all year round.
📷 Raymond Leinster
📷 Raymond Leinster
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We didn't know this...
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Let's make it #GreenFriday 💚
If you're planning on shopping today, make better choices - choose plastic-free, recycled materials or sustainable options - & only buy what you need!
shop.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/product-cate...
Help protect the future of hedgehogs native to the UK
💚 🦔
If you're planning on shopping today, make better choices - choose plastic-free, recycled materials or sustainable options - & only buy what you need!
shop.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/product-cate...
Help protect the future of hedgehogs native to the UK
💚 🦔
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Let's make it #GreenFriday 💚
If you're planning on shopping today, make better choices - choose plastic-free, recycled materials or sustainable options - & only buy what you need!
shop.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/product-cate...
Help protect the future of hedgehogs native to the UK
💚 🦔
If you're planning on shopping today, make better choices - choose plastic-free, recycled materials or sustainable options - & only buy what you need!
shop.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/product-cate...
Help protect the future of hedgehogs native to the UK
💚 🦔
🌊 Last week at Hartlepool’s Wintertide Festival we shared our love of marine life!
✨ With Blair from Stronger Shores, people tried making seaweed plastic, while kids-at-heart crafted collages of the sea.
💙 The creativity was inspiring and the final artworks will make you smile!
#WintertideFestival
✨ With Blair from Stronger Shores, people tried making seaweed plastic, while kids-at-heart crafted collages of the sea.
💙 The creativity was inspiring and the final artworks will make you smile!
#WintertideFestival
November 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🌊 Last week at Hartlepool’s Wintertide Festival we shared our love of marine life!
✨ With Blair from Stronger Shores, people tried making seaweed plastic, while kids-at-heart crafted collages of the sea.
💙 The creativity was inspiring and the final artworks will make you smile!
#WintertideFestival
✨ With Blair from Stronger Shores, people tried making seaweed plastic, while kids-at-heart crafted collages of the sea.
💙 The creativity was inspiring and the final artworks will make you smile!
#WintertideFestival
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🔊New paper alert 🔊
🌊Spatial and Temporal Variation in Wave Overtopping Across a
Coastal Structure Based on One Year of Field Observations 🌊
by J. Brown @noc.ac.uk with @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Network Rail and SW Coastal monitoring
🔗https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13112194
#wirewall @ukri.org
🌊Spatial and Temporal Variation in Wave Overtopping Across a
Coastal Structure Based on One Year of Field Observations 🌊
by J. Brown @noc.ac.uk with @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Network Rail and SW Coastal monitoring
🔗https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13112194
#wirewall @ukri.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🔊New paper alert 🔊
🌊Spatial and Temporal Variation in Wave Overtopping Across a
Coastal Structure Based on One Year of Field Observations 🌊
by J. Brown @noc.ac.uk with @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Network Rail and SW Coastal monitoring
🔗https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13112194
#wirewall @ukri.org
🌊Spatial and Temporal Variation in Wave Overtopping Across a
Coastal Structure Based on One Year of Field Observations 🌊
by J. Brown @noc.ac.uk with @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social Network Rail and SW Coastal monitoring
🔗https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse13112194
#wirewall @ukri.org
will it be a waxwing winter this year?
Could Waxwings be on their way to the UK? Find out in this article from @stephenmossauthor.bsky.social in @theguardian.com ➡️ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
will it be a waxwing winter this year?
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Plastic litter and microplastics are concentrated in coastal zones and may well rapidly accumulate in restored saltmarshes.
See a great new #PhD opportunity to study how restored saltmarshes provide benefits and cope with potential risks of pollution, pathogens and AMR.
#WAAW #AMR #BlueCarbon ⤵️
See a great new #PhD opportunity to study how restored saltmarshes provide benefits and cope with potential risks of pollution, pathogens and AMR.
#WAAW #AMR #BlueCarbon ⤵️
Here @ukceh.bsky.social, we are inviting PhD applicants for the new ECOWILD CDT Project findaphd.com/phds/project...
Take a look if you are interested in #wetlands restoration, #microplastics #antimicrobialresistance and #climatechange
Take a look if you are interested in #wetlands restoration, #microplastics #antimicrobialresistance and #climatechange
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Plastic litter and microplastics are concentrated in coastal zones and may well rapidly accumulate in restored saltmarshes.
See a great new #PhD opportunity to study how restored saltmarshes provide benefits and cope with potential risks of pollution, pathogens and AMR.
#WAAW #AMR #BlueCarbon ⤵️
See a great new #PhD opportunity to study how restored saltmarshes provide benefits and cope with potential risks of pollution, pathogens and AMR.
#WAAW #AMR #BlueCarbon ⤵️
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For our final #AutumnArrivalSpotlight, who else but the stunning Waxwing?
These Scandinavian visitors are a winter favourite with their vibrant crests and yellow-tipped tails.
Watch for flocks feasting on berries in parks and gardens, our seasonal showstoppers!
These Scandinavian visitors are a winter favourite with their vibrant crests and yellow-tipped tails.
Watch for flocks feasting on berries in parks and gardens, our seasonal showstoppers!
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
For our final #AutumnArrivalSpotlight, who else but the stunning Waxwing?
These Scandinavian visitors are a winter favourite with their vibrant crests and yellow-tipped tails.
Watch for flocks feasting on berries in parks and gardens, our seasonal showstoppers!
These Scandinavian visitors are a winter favourite with their vibrant crests and yellow-tipped tails.
Watch for flocks feasting on berries in parks and gardens, our seasonal showstoppers!
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This is your chance to make sure our future is wild 🐾
For the next 10 days, generous match funders are doubling any donations we receive.
Please help us reach our ambitious target of £100,000 and start creating a wilder tomorrow today👇
https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/appeal
For the next 10 days, generous match funders are doubling any donations we receive.
Please help us reach our ambitious target of £100,000 and start creating a wilder tomorrow today👇
https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/appeal
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is your chance to make sure our future is wild 🐾
For the next 10 days, generous match funders are doubling any donations we receive.
Please help us reach our ambitious target of £100,000 and start creating a wilder tomorrow today👇
https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/appeal
For the next 10 days, generous match funders are doubling any donations we receive.
Please help us reach our ambitious target of £100,000 and start creating a wilder tomorrow today👇
https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/appeal
🔎SPOT THE SEALS🔎
The perks of mussel surveying is admiring the wildlife of the Tees.....
At some point it was like a seal highway with them constantly coming down the estuary, bobbing up to get a catch a glance at us but quickly returning to the safety of the water.
The perks of mussel surveying is admiring the wildlife of the Tees.....
At some point it was like a seal highway with them constantly coming down the estuary, bobbing up to get a catch a glance at us but quickly returning to the safety of the water.
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🔎SPOT THE SEALS🔎
The perks of mussel surveying is admiring the wildlife of the Tees.....
At some point it was like a seal highway with them constantly coming down the estuary, bobbing up to get a catch a glance at us but quickly returning to the safety of the water.
The perks of mussel surveying is admiring the wildlife of the Tees.....
At some point it was like a seal highway with them constantly coming down the estuary, bobbing up to get a catch a glance at us but quickly returning to the safety of the water.
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Are you a landowner with hay meadow areas?
The FREE session will include an informative talk and a tour of the nursery and seedbank facilities.
📍Gosling Sike, CA3 0LD
📅 Wednesday 26th November 2025, 10am-3pm
Contact the email address below for bookings ⬇️
[email protected]
The FREE session will include an informative talk and a tour of the nursery and seedbank facilities.
📍Gosling Sike, CA3 0LD
📅 Wednesday 26th November 2025, 10am-3pm
Contact the email address below for bookings ⬇️
[email protected]
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Are you a landowner with hay meadow areas?
The FREE session will include an informative talk and a tour of the nursery and seedbank facilities.
📍Gosling Sike, CA3 0LD
📅 Wednesday 26th November 2025, 10am-3pm
Contact the email address below for bookings ⬇️
[email protected]
The FREE session will include an informative talk and a tour of the nursery and seedbank facilities.
📍Gosling Sike, CA3 0LD
📅 Wednesday 26th November 2025, 10am-3pm
Contact the email address below for bookings ⬇️
[email protected]
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Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...
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We’ve just launched our new fundraising appeal to ensure we’re able to keep protecting Scotland’s native red squirrels, as we have been doing since 2009.
Any amount you can give will help.
Find out more and donate here: scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/how-to-help/...
Thank you.
📷 Keilidh Ewan
Any amount you can give will help.
Find out more and donate here: scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/how-to-help/...
Thank you.
📷 Keilidh Ewan
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
We’ve just launched our new fundraising appeal to ensure we’re able to keep protecting Scotland’s native red squirrels, as we have been doing since 2009.
Any amount you can give will help.
Find out more and donate here: scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/how-to-help/...
Thank you.
📷 Keilidh Ewan
Any amount you can give will help.
Find out more and donate here: scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/how-to-help/...
Thank you.
📷 Keilidh Ewan
Using SeagrassSpotter is a great way to help restoration of this vital ecosystem engineer.....
🌱 Project Seagrass is marking the 10th anniversary of its SeagrassSpotter app by asking divers and snorkellers to get involved and submit new seagrass data recordings to help conservation efforts.
Help mark 10 years of SeagrassSpotter - record your sightings!
Since its launch in 2015, thousands of seagrass observations have so far been uploaded to the app
www.bsac.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Using SeagrassSpotter is a great way to help restoration of this vital ecosystem engineer.....
Great advice from @lgspace.bsky.social
Please don't cut back shrubs and hedgerows until wildlife has taken all the autumn berries! Hawthorn, for example, is a fantastic source of food for birds - including blackbirds, thrushes and (if the weather gets very cold) waxwings.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Great advice from @lgspace.bsky.social
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📢 LAST CHANCE to book your place on this fascinating online talk!
Discover the mysterious subject of bird migration and the different ways in which birds fly together. 👀
Last chance to book your place ⬇️
http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/.../2025-11-11...
Discover the mysterious subject of bird migration and the different ways in which birds fly together. 👀
Last chance to book your place ⬇️
http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/.../2025-11-11...
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📢 LAST CHANCE to book your place on this fascinating online talk!
Discover the mysterious subject of bird migration and the different ways in which birds fly together. 👀
Last chance to book your place ⬇️
http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/.../2025-11-11...
Discover the mysterious subject of bird migration and the different ways in which birds fly together. 👀
Last chance to book your place ⬇️
http://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/.../2025-11-11...
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When rivers can be rivers, wildlife bounces back 🌊
How Beck near St John’s Beck once had just 4 trout per 100m². After restoration with boulders, trees and woody debris, our latest survey shows there are now 80 🐟
Nature bounces back when it has the right conditions. #HealthyRivers #NatureRecovery
How Beck near St John’s Beck once had just 4 trout per 100m². After restoration with boulders, trees and woody debris, our latest survey shows there are now 80 🐟
Nature bounces back when it has the right conditions. #HealthyRivers #NatureRecovery
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
When rivers can be rivers, wildlife bounces back 🌊
How Beck near St John’s Beck once had just 4 trout per 100m². After restoration with boulders, trees and woody debris, our latest survey shows there are now 80 🐟
Nature bounces back when it has the right conditions. #HealthyRivers #NatureRecovery
How Beck near St John’s Beck once had just 4 trout per 100m². After restoration with boulders, trees and woody debris, our latest survey shows there are now 80 🐟
Nature bounces back when it has the right conditions. #HealthyRivers #NatureRecovery
As part of our Living Leven project we've been installing planted coir rolls along Holme Beck in Great Broughton to protect and enhance the local environment.
Coir rolls are natural, biodegradable barriers which help stabilise banks & improve water quality by filtering sediment and pollutants.
Coir rolls are natural, biodegradable barriers which help stabilise banks & improve water quality by filtering sediment and pollutants.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
As part of our Living Leven project we've been installing planted coir rolls along Holme Beck in Great Broughton to protect and enhance the local environment.
Coir rolls are natural, biodegradable barriers which help stabilise banks & improve water quality by filtering sediment and pollutants.
Coir rolls are natural, biodegradable barriers which help stabilise banks & improve water quality by filtering sediment and pollutants.
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Are you interested in learning a new skill?
If so we'd love to teach you - as we've still places available at our willow spiling #volunteering day - next Wednesday 12 November at #Hawes 🌳💪💦
Email: [email protected]
#YorkshireDales #WilowSpiling #GetInvolvedGetInspired #Rivers #RiverRestoration
If so we'd love to teach you - as we've still places available at our willow spiling #volunteering day - next Wednesday 12 November at #Hawes 🌳💪💦
Email: [email protected]
#YorkshireDales #WilowSpiling #GetInvolvedGetInspired #Rivers #RiverRestoration
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Are you interested in learning a new skill?
If so we'd love to teach you - as we've still places available at our willow spiling #volunteering day - next Wednesday 12 November at #Hawes 🌳💪💦
Email: [email protected]
#YorkshireDales #WilowSpiling #GetInvolvedGetInspired #Rivers #RiverRestoration
If so we'd love to teach you - as we've still places available at our willow spiling #volunteering day - next Wednesday 12 November at #Hawes 🌳💪💦
Email: [email protected]
#YorkshireDales #WilowSpiling #GetInvolvedGetInspired #Rivers #RiverRestoration
such a worthy cause....
Since 2009, Fish in the Class has helped pupils across the Forth discover the magic of their local rivers. We need your help to keep it going in 2026!
Donate by 19 Dec 2025 to support pupils learning about the natural world: forthriverstrust.org/fitc-crowdfu...
#FishInTheClass #LoveYourLocalRiver
Donate by 19 Dec 2025 to support pupils learning about the natural world: forthriverstrust.org/fitc-crowdfu...
#FishInTheClass #LoveYourLocalRiver
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
such a worthy cause....
we think these are brilliant - can't wait to see who wins @wwf.org.uk
Soaring in to share some of the funniest wildlife images of the year. 📸
These are just some of the 40 finalists part of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards with Nikon Europe!
Winners will be announced on the 9th December. 🏆
These are just some of the 40 finalists part of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards with Nikon Europe!
Winners will be announced on the 9th December. 🏆
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
we think these are brilliant - can't wait to see who wins @wwf.org.uk
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If you’re thinking of a job in the outdoors, in science, wanting to make a difference then this one could be for you. For #GreenCareersWeek discover more about the amazing work experience placements offered by @btobirds.bsky.social c-js.uk/49ebCtk
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
If you’re thinking of a job in the outdoors, in science, wanting to make a difference then this one could be for you. For #GreenCareersWeek discover more about the amazing work experience placements offered by @btobirds.bsky.social c-js.uk/49ebCtk
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WHY is everyone so obsessed with Robins? Do White-Tailed Eagles have a favourite song? Can you teach a pigeon to defend itself?
Introducing Wild Questions, the RSPB's brand new nature podcast.
It's weird. It's wonderful. And episode 1 is available NOW.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 😍
Introducing Wild Questions, the RSPB's brand new nature podcast.
It's weird. It's wonderful. And episode 1 is available NOW.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 😍
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
WHY is everyone so obsessed with Robins? Do White-Tailed Eagles have a favourite song? Can you teach a pigeon to defend itself?
Introducing Wild Questions, the RSPB's brand new nature podcast.
It's weird. It's wonderful. And episode 1 is available NOW.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 😍
Introducing Wild Questions, the RSPB's brand new nature podcast.
It's weird. It's wonderful. And episode 1 is available NOW.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 😍