Louise Lavictoire
@louiselavictoire.bsky.social
Freshwater ecologist/biologist, focusing on nature recovery, restoration, conservation 🔬💧🏞️🚣🏼♀️
🌳🍒🫐It's a mast year! 🌳🍒🫐
There's a huge abundance of berries, nuts & seeds on UK trees/shrubs this year. Known as a mast year, certain species produce a bumper crop to increase seed survival, creating a 'prey satiation' effect. The overwhelming abundance ensures some will survive and germinate
There's a huge abundance of berries, nuts & seeds on UK trees/shrubs this year. Known as a mast year, certain species produce a bumper crop to increase seed survival, creating a 'prey satiation' effect. The overwhelming abundance ensures some will survive and germinate
September 20, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🌳🍒🫐It's a mast year! 🌳🍒🫐
There's a huge abundance of berries, nuts & seeds on UK trees/shrubs this year. Known as a mast year, certain species produce a bumper crop to increase seed survival, creating a 'prey satiation' effect. The overwhelming abundance ensures some will survive and germinate
There's a huge abundance of berries, nuts & seeds on UK trees/shrubs this year. Known as a mast year, certain species produce a bumper crop to increase seed survival, creating a 'prey satiation' effect. The overwhelming abundance ensures some will survive and germinate
Releasing juvenile #freshwater pearl #mussels two channels today, less than 5 metres apart, one spring fed, the other a small side channel of the main stem river (surface water). The spring fed one was 12.5 ºC, the side channel 17.7ºC! That's over 5ºC difference in the space of <5m!
July 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Releasing juvenile #freshwater pearl #mussels two channels today, less than 5 metres apart, one spring fed, the other a small side channel of the main stem river (surface water). The spring fed one was 12.5 ºC, the side channel 17.7ºC! That's over 5ºC difference in the space of <5m!
Summer time, harvest time 😋
July 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Summer time, harvest time 😋
What a wonderful day we had at the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting at Nottingham Trent University. Brilliant discussions on ghost ponds, climate change, pollution, outdoor swimming, being 'activist scientist' and the concept of riverkin. Can't wait to do it again next year!
June 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
What a wonderful day we had at the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting at Nottingham Trent University. Brilliant discussions on ghost ponds, climate change, pollution, outdoor swimming, being 'activist scientist' and the concept of riverkin. Can't wait to do it again next year!
April 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Last 4 hours in our #GreenMatchFund campaign to help save #ArcticCharr in the #LakeDistrict. Please donate if you can or share our campaign with those who might donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05.... Would be great to reach 1/3 of our target of £6666. Thank you!
#Windermere #freshwater #fish
#Windermere #freshwater #fish
April 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Last 4 hours in our #GreenMatchFund campaign to help save #ArcticCharr in the #LakeDistrict. Please donate if you can or share our campaign with those who might donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05.... Would be great to reach 1/3 of our target of £6666. Thank you!
#Windermere #freshwater #fish
#Windermere #freshwater #fish
Epic week at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum sampling #ArcticCharr scales for our #CHARM project. Investigating #genetics of English #LakeDistrict populations to aid #conservation.
Funded by @naturalengland.bsky.social through #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme
www.fba.org.uk/lake-distric...
Funded by @naturalengland.bsky.social through #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme
www.fba.org.uk/lake-distric...
April 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Epic week at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum sampling #ArcticCharr scales for our #CHARM project. Investigating #genetics of English #LakeDistrict populations to aid #conservation.
Funded by @naturalengland.bsky.social through #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme
www.fba.org.uk/lake-distric...
Funded by @naturalengland.bsky.social through #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme
www.fba.org.uk/lake-distric...
Much fun with #ChatGPT making my own freshwater biologist action figure... Complete with mussels, notebook and traffic cone (bathyscope 🤪). Show me your action figures!
April 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Much fun with #ChatGPT making my own freshwater biologist action figure... Complete with mussels, notebook and traffic cone (bathyscope 🤪). Show me your action figures!
🧚♀️ Freshwater mussels are sometimes referred to as naiads, which in Greek mythology were enigmatic and often mischievous water spirits!
What are your favourite names with historic origins?
What are your favourite names with historic origins?
January 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🧚♀️ Freshwater mussels are sometimes referred to as naiads, which in Greek mythology were enigmatic and often mischievous water spirits!
What are your favourite names with historic origins?
What are your favourite names with historic origins?
🏞️ I live near the historic town of Kendal which literally means dale (or valley) of the Kent (the river which runs through the valley).
January 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🏞️ I live near the historic town of Kendal which literally means dale (or valley) of the Kent (the river which runs through the valley).
To add to Glen’s examples:
💧 The name of one of my favourite rivers, the Irt in Cumbria, may come from either the Old English ‘gyr’ meaning mud, or from the Brittonic ‘ir’ meaning fresh, clean or pure…I would like to think it’s the latter given the river is usually crystal clear!
💧 The name of one of my favourite rivers, the Irt in Cumbria, may come from either the Old English ‘gyr’ meaning mud, or from the Brittonic ‘ir’ meaning fresh, clean or pure…I would like to think it’s the latter given the river is usually crystal clear!
January 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
To add to Glen’s examples:
💧 The name of one of my favourite rivers, the Irt in Cumbria, may come from either the Old English ‘gyr’ meaning mud, or from the Brittonic ‘ir’ meaning fresh, clean or pure…I would like to think it’s the latter given the river is usually crystal clear!
💧 The name of one of my favourite rivers, the Irt in Cumbria, may come from either the Old English ‘gyr’ meaning mud, or from the Brittonic ‘ir’ meaning fresh, clean or pure…I would like to think it’s the latter given the river is usually crystal clear!
Literally from the car window! Nearly ran these two over. Interrupted a sparrowhawk attempting to make a woodcock its dinner 😱 Spoiler...the woodcock got away
January 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Literally from the car window! Nearly ran these two over. Interrupted a sparrowhawk attempting to make a woodcock its dinner 😱 Spoiler...the woodcock got away
Stunning day on the #RiverLaxford seeing amazing habitats, mussels, lichens and even sea eagles 😱😍🦅 what a stunning part of the world!
Thanks to Chris Conroy from Atlantic Salmon Trust for explaining the amazing work he's doing and answering my many fishy questions 🐟
Thanks to Chris Conroy from Atlantic Salmon Trust for explaining the amazing work he's doing and answering my many fishy questions 🐟
January 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Stunning day on the #RiverLaxford seeing amazing habitats, mussels, lichens and even sea eagles 😱😍🦅 what a stunning part of the world!
Thanks to Chris Conroy from Atlantic Salmon Trust for explaining the amazing work he's doing and answering my many fishy questions 🐟
Thanks to Chris Conroy from Atlantic Salmon Trust for explaining the amazing work he's doing and answering my many fishy questions 🐟
It's very nearly over for another year! #AlmostThere #ElfOnTheShelf
December 23, 2024 at 10:36 PM
It's very nearly over for another year! #AlmostThere #ElfOnTheShelf
I do love this time of year...cold, crisp and cloud inversions help ease the mind...happy weekend Blueskyers
#Windermere #Blueskies #LakeDistrict
#Windermere #Blueskies #LakeDistrict
November 29, 2024 at 6:30 PM
I do love this time of year...cold, crisp and cloud inversions help ease the mind...happy weekend Blueskyers
#Windermere #Blueskies #LakeDistrict
#Windermere #Blueskies #LakeDistrict
If you're going to @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social this weekend, come and hear the wonderful Michael Malay talk about his book Late Light TODAY. Tickets still available and you'll learn about #eels, #moths, #mussels, #crickets and so much more!
kendalmountainfestival.eventive.org/schedule/66a...
kendalmountainfestival.eventive.org/schedule/66a...
November 22, 2024 at 9:14 AM
If you're going to @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social this weekend, come and hear the wonderful Michael Malay talk about his book Late Light TODAY. Tickets still available and you'll learn about #eels, #moths, #mussels, #crickets and so much more!
kendalmountainfestival.eventive.org/schedule/66a...
kendalmountainfestival.eventive.org/schedule/66a...
I haven't posted about #FreshwaterMussels yet on @bsky.app so here's a summery video of a gorgeous #mussel #river in the #LakeDistrict and it's inhabitants
#Cumbria #Biodiversity #NatureRecovery #SpeciesConservation #Restoration #Bivalve #Mollusc
#Cumbria #Biodiversity #NatureRecovery #SpeciesConservation #Restoration #Bivalve #Mollusc
November 20, 2024 at 7:42 AM
I haven't posted about #FreshwaterMussels yet on @bsky.app so here's a summery video of a gorgeous #mussel #river in the #LakeDistrict and it's inhabitants
#Cumbria #Biodiversity #NatureRecovery #SpeciesConservation #Restoration #Bivalve #Mollusc
#Cumbria #Biodiversity #NatureRecovery #SpeciesConservation #Restoration #Bivalve #Mollusc
There's a chill in the air for the #autumn #BigWindermereSurvey this morning. 150 #CitizenScientists out in force in the #Windermere #catchment taking #WaterQuality and #bacterial samples for the #FreshwaterBiologicalAssociation & #LancasterUniversity
www.fba.org.uk/the-big-wind...
www.fba.org.uk/the-big-wind...
November 17, 2024 at 11:19 AM
There's a chill in the air for the #autumn #BigWindermereSurvey this morning. 150 #CitizenScientists out in force in the #Windermere #catchment taking #WaterQuality and #bacterial samples for the #FreshwaterBiologicalAssociation & #LancasterUniversity
www.fba.org.uk/the-big-wind...
www.fba.org.uk/the-big-wind...
Hello #Bluesky! I mainly post about freshwatery things, mostly in the #LakeDistrict. Big on #Conservation, #NatureRecovery and #Threatened #Species
November 16, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Hello #Bluesky! I mainly post about freshwatery things, mostly in the #LakeDistrict. Big on #Conservation, #NatureRecovery and #Threatened #Species