In the early hours of today we had some rain! It had stopped by lunch time, and we only had a total of 1.3mm, but the air smells fresher and leaves have drops on them. We had suffered 23 days with no rain at all, only 1.8mm in the whole of April and only 6.6mm in the whole of March. More rain is forecast, but often it fizzles out before it gets here.....
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The weblog below is for naturalists to use to report interesting sightings, ask questions, report on field meetings and generally post pictures and any information or questions generally relevant in some way to the wildlife and geology of Essex. You will need to register and be logged-on to post to the forum, and you need to upload pictures first, for use in posts. Find out more
The weblog below is for naturalists to use to report interesting sightings, ask questions, report on field meetings and generally post pictures and any information or questions generally relevant in some way to the wildlife and geology of Essex. You will need to register and be logged-on to post to the forum, and you need to upload pictures first, for use in posts. Find out more