Also a few Minnows and a dead Stickleback in the River Brett between Cosford Bridge & Kersey Mill. Huge numbers of freshwater snails especially Wandering Snail (Radix peregra) & Great Pond Snail (Lymnaea stagnalis).
#MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #Suffolk #RiverBrett
4/6

In the River Brett, besides Perch, big shoals of fish fry - Roach?
Could this be a Chub fry among the young Three-spined Sticklebacks in the shallows?
#perch #RiverBrett #Hadleigh #Babergh #Suffolk #suffolkrivers #stickleback #freshwaterfishes #freshwaterfish #Sticklebacks
3/6

Sadly seems quite a lot of the Roach in the glorious big fish shoal in the River Brett at Kersey Mill were diseased. Mostly the fish - including Perch, Chub & a few Rudd - were young, but there were a few bigger ones.
#RiverBrett #Hadleigh #Babergh #Suffolk #suffolkrivers
2/6

Yellow Water Lilies dominant in the River Brett, Arrowhead, a Water-plantain & some #nonnative #invasive Himalayan Balsam.

But what is the fully submerged plant lower right? #wildflowerID

#RiverBrett #Wetlandplants #Wildflowerhour #Hadleigh #Babergh #Suffolk

2/4

Guess this is Blushing Bracket.
But what about the strange orange ?fungus growing on log floating in #RiverBrett?
The liverwort Overleaf Pellia (Pellia epiphylla) coating the banks.
#fungi #fungus #liverworts #bryophytes #liverwort #bryophyte
#Hadleigh #Babergh #Suffolk
8/8

In the #RiverBrett (as in Lee Brook https://x.com/numenini/status/1385349645069692937?s=20 a horse skull! Optical illusion that strangled with barbed wire?
Can anyone date the pottery (Cosford Hall is 17th C)?
Some freshwater sponges & mussels.
Abundant Caddis Fly larvae of at...

This pregnant ♀️ Stickleback looks how we felt after a fabulous lunch by @country_logs @ the Grettons.
Masses of minnows, many ♂️♂️ in splendid breeding attire. A few small Perch. Downstream of Kersey tributary some small Roach or Rudd #RiverBrett #Hadleigh #Babergh #Suffolk 5/8

Downstream of where tributary carrying waste from Kersey Sewage Treatment Works joins the #RiverBrett @ Cosford it's a bit disgusting, shrouded in algae, face mask dangling from tree. Though abused river brightened by gem-like ♂️ sticklebacks & a catkin tide patchwork quilt.
4/8

My love affair with Bullheads deepened today. In #RiverBrett phenomenal densities under abundant old pottery. Learnt to resist picking up pieces of pot to inspect, as dad Bullheads under so many, guarding their beautiful eggs. See the baby bullhead eyes in these eggs? #MySwim 1/8