Very cool tern islands and the wildlife trust have some of the most impressive wildlife records I’ve ever seen!

The visited Rutland water. Mega reservoir and nature reserve, that 50 years ago was non descript fields. Now huge social benefits and communities of volunteers and engineers and tourists and businesses are based around it

Quite emotional as part of the plans is the James Adler reserve. James and I were stakeholders together so it was inspiring to see a site acquired in his memory start to be transformed.

In Rutland today. Spent the morning with a very broad partnership of Local Authorities, regulators, charities and others delivering a landscape scale rewilding Rutland project.

Very cool Minecraft based tool to let people in communities impacted by coastal erosion better understand the risks and options https://t.co/TsaVS86BGR

Jane Goodall died today. While smarter and more informed people will talk about her work, I want to share a snippet from her Wikipedia page - the two greatest paragraphs ever on Wikipedia. The first parts are amusing and interesting, but the last sentence elevates it to high art.

We’re recruiting 3 Chairs of Regional Flood & Coastal Committees, an opportunity to lead programmes protecting people, places & nature 🌊🌱🤝 📍Trent | North West | Southern 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept 🔗 https://t.co/Zdw3EBp0oK #PublicAppointments #Flooding #Leadership #Defra #RFCC

Very impressed that Harrow have a fully transparent database of flood assets and their condition https://t.co/YWyJvZLzMt There's a huge amount of time and effort maintaining these and e.g. clearing out gullies before rainfall events are forecast. Impressive operation

Out and about again This time in Harrow with Environment Agency, Harrow Borough and colleagues from the Mayors office and FloodReady The Council have turned a park so it captures thousands of m3 of water at peak time, whilst also delivering water quality and amenity benefits

Off to Avonmouth where a £100m project has moved protection to one in two hundred levels. Protecting thousands of homes and loads of infrastructure and unlocking further regeneration.

Fascinating how much choices made by engineers hundreds of years ago still drive decisions now. Assets created when Bristol was a major international port still impacting on flood risk and costs

Out and about in Bristol this time. Very interesting set of strategic choices to protect the city from increasing coastal flood risks. Mage project 300m being planned to deliver big upgrade in scale and quality of protection.

Very much the new job and working on floods, waterways and Environment Agency sponsorship. Learning a huge amount including seeing some of the great ops staff balancing strategic planning with day to day management, community engagement and of course incident response

I will miss the work. But I will miss more the farmers and others who I learnt from and who were generous with their time and expertise. Many of whom I've met on here. I'm around until September and still lots to do so hope to see you at one of the ag shows Im at

Having led through this Spending Review my (4th) its is time for a new challenge. I'm off to be Deputy Director for on flood risk, inland waterways and Environment Agency sponsorship

After 7 (SEVEN!) years, it's time to move on from the farming and countryside programme. I'm super proud of loads - the Agriculture Act, the Ag Transition Plans, our engagement and setting the strategy and budget that has meant more farmers doing more for nature. But....

Congrats to my old boss @JanetHughes for her very well deserved CBE in the King's Birthday Honours list. Amazing achievement and richly deserved

Lots of great chats with farmers and national parks having spent a couple of days in the Lakes

Last night’s radar from the Netherlands. An explosion of birds heading to England! I would guess Redwing.

Also the top of that measure is where the sea level is….and that is the east main line below.