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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

2 more Norfolk ponds!!! As part of our new Coast Ghosts Pilot project we have resurrected 2 near-sea #ghostponds. 5 days of digging & now we just need rain!!! The ponds will bring more clean freshwater to the coastal strip. Huge benefits for migrant birds. #coastghosts @ournorfolkcoast.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Coast ghosts project end of day 2 & we have a finished restored #ghostpond!!! It is going to be a beauty by next summer... on to another smaller lost pond tomorrow @fwageast.bsky.social @farmwildlifeuk.bsky.social @nffn.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just wonderful to work with the brilliant @annasolcova.bsky.social. thanks for the macrofossil expertise & so much hard work Anna. We are still put here digging in a field!!!

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Going down!!! We started our new "Coast Ghosts Pilot" project today funded by @ournorfolkcoast.bsky.social. This coastal #ghostpond was filled in during the 1980s & we had to dig down 2.8 m to find it below all sorts of infill. Norfolk nearly has 1 more pond back! @timholtwilson.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Studys of bat use of restored farm ponds in Norfolk, eastern England led by the brilliant @davidjd.bsky.social of our partner @uclgeography.bsky.social. Overgown ponds restored by scrub & mud removal are massive hot spots for bats in the farmed landscape. Water = life 🦇

Setting up bat recording kit at dusk at a restored farm pond

Restored pond at dusk. Low water levels due to drought

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

What a difference less than a year makes!!! 10 months after restoration for this big formerly scrubbed over #Norfolk farm #pond! & there are 25+ wetland plants in its clear marly waters. It is beautiful!!!

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Seaching for "paydirt" aka seedbanks & lost #ghostponds in the Brecklands of Norfolk, eastern England today with heck of a team @timholtwilson.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We just finished running a 2-day #pond restoration training course for @freshwaterbio.bsky.social at our demonstation restored pond landscape in Heydon, Norfolk. Brilliant fun & successful despite the heat in a metal world war 1 accomodation hut (village hall) @uclgeography.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Alisma lanceolatum in one of our restored farm ponds at Heydon, Norfolk, E. England. Only known for a few sites in county, but 2nd time found after sediment removal in a pond. Coming up from buried seed just like Alisma plantago-aquatica? @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Ponds are cooking!!! Out surveying #ponds restored in Autumn 2025 in Norfolk, eastern England. Water temperature of 34 degrees °C at 3.30 pm is too hot for pond creatures & surveyors 🥵

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

#Ghostpond restoration is rocket fuelled conservation! Over 4-5 years we have seen 100s of wet-loving plants return to 30 resurrected ice age ponds in Norfolk, England. This year's surveys saw us find more scarce species: Marsh Pennywort, Marsh Speedwell & Fringed Heartwort. So Thrilled!!!

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The most successful form of ecological restoration known? Over the last decade we have pioneered the restoration of infilled #ghostponds as below @megwildflowers.bsky.social @timholtwilson.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

#Crucians26 saw us find 2 new wild #crucian carp populations as well as proving 3 more successful (surviving & recruiting) reintroductions. Thanks so much to a truly brilliant team. We are winning the battle to save the crucian carp in the #ponds of Norfolk, eastern England!

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Many species caught in our final surveys of #crucians26. Can you name them?

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Another day searching for #crucian carp in Norfolk #ponds & small lakes. SUCCESS!!! One new unknown population found. #crucians2016

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Return of the #Crucian carp. We started our Norfolk Crucian Project back in 2008. We are saving this rare European #pond fish species from extinction in the wild #crucians2026 @fishtwitcher.bsky.social @anglingtrust.bsky.social @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social @anglingtimes.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

What eats what? One thing is certain tho! #Crucian carp & Great Crested #Newt live, breed & recruit together, in harmony, in small #ponds, especially plant-filled ones #crucians2026

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Will we catch #crucian carp in this deep & mysterious ancient woodland edge #pond tomorrow? The nets are in tonight #crucians2026

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

We had this little Sayer family member as a helper today. The future of conservation relies on young people seeing & feeling nature. Especially #crucian carp obviously #crucians2026

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

We caught this large & beautiful #crucian carp today from a large #pond. As you tilt these fish the changing light highlights greens, & bronze but overwhelmingly gold. Surely Britain's most beautiful fish? #crucians2026

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It was cold last night but a nice little catch of #crucians this morning from the sub-alpine Norfolk #pond #crucians2026

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Searching for the rare #crucian carp. Tonight our nets are in this old restored farmyard #pond in North Norfolk, eastern England. Will we catch in the morning? Watch this space #crucians2026

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Saving the rare #crucian carp in Norfolk, eastern England. For the next 7 days we will be searching for crucians in Norfolk's farm #ponds. We will also be checking the success of recent stockings. Yes its #crucians2026 @fishtwitcher.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Crucian nets are out in one of Norfolk's highest ponds tonight. We stocked this pond >10 yrs ago & are monitoring its #crucian carp population. Hoping for a great catch even though its going to be a cold night. #crucians2026

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Freshwater Biological Association @freshwaterbio.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We are potty about pond life! If you, like us, feel passionately about the #freshwater power of ponds... please check out our #Pond #Restoration Training on 25 & 26 June with Helen Greaves & Carl Sayer of the @norfolkponds.bsky.social. Find out more & register today! www.fba.org.uk/shop/p/pond-...

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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 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

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

3 days of #pond management completed. We worked on 8 ponds that we restored over the last 10 years. Removing scrub is alot of fun & hugely benefits the ponds & so many species spanning plants, invertebrates, amphibians & mammals. *Thanks so much to all our brill volunteers*

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Solar blue is reflected in the placid water of a Bodham pond while @norfolkponds.bsky.social minions strip its brambley banks bare of scrub. Great pond restoration works are under way this weekend. Work will resume on an even more thorny pond today.

A pond with its banks cleared of willow, bramble and thorn scrub. Blue sky is reflected in deeper blue colour on the pond surface. There are piles of brash in the background as well as people wearing day-glo reflective yellow tabards, two of whom can be seen reflected in the water.

A pond in farmland with thickets invading its banks. A person with day-glow reflective yellow tabard is working with a saw nearby. There is a pile of brash on the right.

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

What a difference a #pond management day makes. 4 ponds down & 8 to go over the next 2 days!!!

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

We are managing previously restored farmland ponds in North Norfolk, eastern England over the next 3 days. Lots of volunteers coming in. Watch this space for top tips & wild #pond conservation action!!!

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A #ghostpond in the gloom. We resurrected this #pond about 8 years ago. As I approached I flushed 2 wild mallards & a snipe. Soon we will need to scrape out the bullrush - but the pond is still doing its thing lifting species populations in the farmed countryside

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Brilliant fishy #pond conservation. At Kelling Heath Holiday Park, Norfolk, E. England they have fish & non-fish ponds. Science says that having some ponds with native pond-associated fish & others without fish increases biodiversity at the landscape-scale.

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

One of Norfolk's very special farm #ponds during greenhouse gas sampling. Hello Pickpocket Pit. Treeless & enclosed by lesser tussock sedge & full of all sorts of goodies including the scarce greater duckweed. And bang in the middle of a big arable field. Invisible to all except for a passing eagle

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Many Norfolk farm #ponds have steep sides especially at the old clay/marl pit digging face. Sometimes, if cleared of scrub, a stunning vertical meadow is formed along the sharp moisture gradient from waters edge to bank top. Here Sayer's Black Pit, the first pond we restored in 2011, shows the way

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Restored spring fed farm #ponds are the jewels of the countryside! Hence why we exist. They need to be cared for & managed & they should never be filled in!!!

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Rare plants often turn up in restored Norfolk farm #ponds: Translucent Stonewort (Nitella translucens), Tassel Stonewort (Tolypella intricata), Bladder Sedge (Carex vesicaria) & Marsh Speedwell (Veronica scutellata). Very special species usually confined to nature reserves

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Fantastic farm #pond #fishes. 3-spine stickleback (Right) & 9-spine stickleback (Left). Both can go to sea! The 3-spine prefers open water & the 9-spine loves dense plant-filled water. The male 9-spine (Lower Left) goes entirely black when breeding. Crackers! @fishtwitcher.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Transforming overgrown farm #ponds by scrub & mud removal. Before restoration this Norfolk pond was anoxic from bed to surface, had an impoverished plant & invertebrate community & lacked breeding amphibians. All of these things were reversed BIG TIME after restoration! @arc-trust.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A recently restored #pond in arable. Clear plant-filled & fringed water & all sorts of habitats present. Birds will nest in the bushes & feed on emerging insects. Pollinators of all kinds will use the pond & its plants. Every critter in the landscape will drink its water day & night. *Ponds = Life*

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Digging a buried #ghostpond in Norfolk farmland way back in 2013. The darker lower sediments are the muds from a pond filled in 70+ years ago. We now know that ghost pond ressurection may be the most successful form of ecological restoration known! @billsutherland.bsky.social

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

During & 2 years after the restoration of a scrubbed over farm #pond. A massive increase in biodiversity observed. Return of Great Crested Newt & appearance of the mega rare Tassel Stonewort. We can report on 100s of stories like this from Norfolk. Ponds should be a higher conservation priority

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Happy NY!!! Since 2014 we have pioneered the restoration of overgrown ponds & lost infilled #ghostponds in the UK. Our methods, learnt from a wonderful farmer (Richard Waddingham), are mega successful & lead to massive biodiversity gains for aquatic & terrestrial species. Please support us in 2026 🎉

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