After having a reasonably mild easy winter to contend with February has certainly made up for it with storms, rain, hail and snow all thrown into the mix and a river in almost constant spate, peaking at over 15ft above …

The 1st day of the New Year started well with a nice dry bright calm day and we had a few Aconite appear over the holiday period which were out on display as we returned to work. This weather pattern …

The first day of the month started with a hard frost, the mercury hitting minus 5⁰C and slowing up the run off coming down through the catchment. It was soon to get milder and wetter after that; with the river …

It was a cold wet 1st week to the month that saw the river level sitting around the three to four feet mark. Then a cold frosty spell followed and the river slow right up and levels drop back a …

Once again, we had very mixed weather over the month covering everything from one very wet week that saw a rapid rise in the river level to the first hard frosts of the autumn. There have been some lovely sunrises …

The month started off with some cooler dull dry days and the spate that was coming down the system started to abate, and the river eased up a bit down on the estuary. The 1st of the month saw the …

It was a dry warm start to the month of August and the river was slowly dropping back to summer level but this all changed by the end of the first week when we had heavy rain and the river …

The 1st was a cooler dry windy day and this pattern of weather was to continue for a week or so, during which time the river sat at just above summer level. A lot of our time is spent on …

It was a dry day to the start of June and over the first week or so the river level started to drop back again towards summer level. The weather has been very mixed over the month with some wet …

It was more settled weather into the start of the month, but it did get cooler as it went on with some odd light showers. By the 3rd of May we started to see the first of this year’s ducklings …