Our April meet was on 29th, a typically cool day, very damp and overcast as most of the previous week, but trees had suddenly come into leaf. It was clear that this year would be an 'Oak before Ash' year but it remains to be seen if the rhyme will be true and that summer rainfall will be light. There was to be 10mm of rain overnight however.
At last the river was low enough for some members of the group to pull the deflated inflatable boat out to the collecting point. It had been washed downstream from an unknown location and had been embedded in the river for a long while, mostly invisible. There's more to be done next time, the river level allowing.
It was good to see that all the fruit trees were in blossom now:
Each tree is a different variety and blossoms at a slightly different time.
