The first significant rain for a fortnight fell during the night and its a typical equinoctial day so far with a very stiff westerly wind blowing along a lot of dank grey cloud.  The river has risen a touch, but it will take a drop more rain yet to make any real difference to the level.

We set ten traps round the Tarn last evening as part of the crayfish survey and these will be checked this morning.  The plan is to do a 6 day check so the traps will remain in situ until Sunday with daily processing of results.  I will post these up as we get them and try to draw some comparisons with the results obtained from the last survey in 2002.

Ian