The same weather pattern followed on into September with dull milder weather and the odd showers, the river level stayed around the same as well until mid month when it got back up over the two feet mark.
The 1st saw the start of the Duck shooting season again down on the estuary,
there has been the odd wild fowler out but we don’t see them out in the numbers of days gone by. As the month progressed we were seeing plenty of returning geese overhead, coming back south for the winter months ahead.
And there was more movement of Curlew, snipe and swans, along with Teal starting to show up in decent numbers too.
There have been some apples picked crated and stored, that will be used around the bird feed station over the colder winter months that lie ahead.
As always there was the traditional pick of sloes again that will be used for making this years batch of sloe gin.
A lot of the hedges have had their last cut of the season, and the grass growth rate is definitely slowing up.
We are seeing the leaves on the trees changing colour now, the nights are drawing, and some evenings are much cooler now. There was a wetter end to this month that saw the river levels fluctuating by a couple of feet again.
I think this may have helped salmon catches on the river, with the Cargill beat doing well of late
and a few of the other beats reporting improved catches too. The last day of the month ended dry and mild, with the river level sitting above the three feet mark.
Dago
