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sarahlambert7.bsky.social
The most problematical #InvasiveSpecies in many of our local disused gravel and brickpits is New Zealand Pigmyweed, which can form dense mono-dominant carpets. But increasingly I find it co-existing with wetland plants, including stoneworts, especially where rotationally cleared...

#wildflowerhour
New Zealand Pigmyweed Crassula helmsii with pointed yellowish-green slightly succulent leaves arranged in 4s and tiny white flowers Close up of white flower of New Zealand Pigmyweed Crassula helmsii
June 28, 2026 at 7:45 PM
fenlandof.bsky.social
Saxon Pit health impact study to be published on 7th October - followed same day by two public online briefings by Cambridgeshire Public Health | @cambstimes.bsky.social | 28 September 2026:
www.cambstimes.co.uk/news/2658731...
#Whittlesey #brickpits #SaxonPit
Results of health study on controversial Whittlesey pit site to be published
People living near Saxon Pit, Whittlesey, are being urged to attend public sessions next month to hear the findings of a major health assessment.
www.cambstimes.co.uk
September 29, 2026 at 9:18 AM
thetoepunter.bsky.social
Ever fly across P’Boro brickpits?
December 13, 2024 at 8:29 PM
malcolmhull.bsky.social
Ten Dingy Skippers on this afternoons trip to Shrubhill Common in Hemel Hempstead.But none at all this morning at nearby Bovingdon Brickpits Interesting that the flight season has ended earlier at the clay site, but still flying at the chalk site. @bc-hertsmiddx @savebutterflies
May 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
artefactual.eurosky.social
#ilovethisplace Because there's industrial #archaeology around hidden corners! Bushey #brickpits @HistoricEngland <a href="http://t.co/iBCn04LJLi" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://t.co/iBCn04LJLi
November 19, 2024 at 1:55 AM
tomslists.bsky.social
"fish will appear and often it'll be pike, big pike. Nobody puts them there, they form themselves like woodworm form in wood. Mice do that as well, they'll form themselves where there've been none before."

'Always Open to Beauty' by @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social in the latest Slightly Foxed
A snippet of text says that Richard Bell 'also, in passing, captures a wonderful snippet of folk-ecology from a local landlady, who tells Bell that in the flooded brickpits "fish will appear and often it'll be pike, big pike. Nobody puts them there, they form themselves like woodworm form in wood. Mice do that as well, they'll form themselves where there've been none before'). 'Always Open to Beauty' by Richard Smyth, discussing Richard Bell's Britain in Slightly Foxed No.86
August 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
beccyscottuk.bsky.social
This is Whittlesey brickpits (King's Dyke) - it's the gravel island near Must Farm? Smelt of the Mcains oven chips factory and sewage farm Open access link here to publication by that @markknight63.bsky.social - www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/d399b1...
Pattern and process: Landscape prehistories from Whittlesey Brick Pits: the King’s Dyke & Bradley Fen excavations 1998–2004
www.repository.cam.ac.uk
December 4, 2024 at 11:45 PM