I was in Halifax all day yesterday so have little to report on the fishery this morning other than that the river is now quite low and unlikely to rise much this week. 

As I walked down across Tarn pasture to the Tarn yesterday morning I was struck by the number and variety of mushrooms growing here.  The most striking is a variety that i don't recall seeing before, but is growing this year in some profusion.  It looks like a bunch of bright yellow fingers reaching up out of the sward about a couple of inches high and each 'finger' about 1/4 inch across.  I can't find this in any of my books so if anyone has any bright ideas as to what it is I would love to know.

My plan today is to get hold of Chris S who owns the land at Cragghill and get his permission to do some tree planting this autumn within the buffer strip down towards Studfold.  Just the occasional specimen tree to provide a bit of habitat variation on the open banks here.  Incidentally when I was up at Turn Dub on Saturday I noticed that there are a few young trees beginning to show that we haven't planted.  It would seem that keeping the sheep off this area is allowing stuff that has been grazed back to start to find its potential.  Just like the bluebells at Nanny Carr that appeared this spring within the buffer strip.

Ian