i was going to put up a wee set of thursday night photos,but it was taking so long i decided to at present just stick up one photo.


again the fish started moving just at dusk .3 to hand 4 lost
jim

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Hi Jim

Nice photo there, hard to believe with a beautiful photo like that theres no leaves on the trees, times are a changing alright.

Mick

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I had a small river cruiser once...I called it "Caithness Breeze"....."Copper Sunset" sounds almost as nice.

Lovely picture.

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Very warm here in Central Scotland (22 dgr) No leaves on the majority of the trees and I wonder if the trees are being held back by the lack of rain.Must be a month since we had any !!!!

Any thoughts on this?

Just be thankfull you still have trees ,The loch's i fish are in the middle of a forest fire as i write this.The Galloway Forest park about 60 square miles of land is burnt to a crisp. (and it's still burning .

Mark...

i think the trees are coming along at the proper pace,the silver birch outside my window has as many buds as normal for this time of year and the hawthorns are in bloom at the right time.its the 22c that's just slightly out of kilter,but not by much.iv'e has several hot spells about this time of year in my life.in fact i normally have a weeks motorcycle holiday in the north of Scotland at this time of year,because of the regularity of good weather.but it can also SNOW

jim

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Yes Jim,

I remember running at coatbridge on the first sunday in May and the track meet was called off because of heavy snow ended up a cross country almost ha ha but I won the 800m in the slowest ever time !

Pete

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The birch in my garden is beginning to green up too and is hanging with catkins. Haven't seen any Hawthorns blooming though, are you sure it isn't Blackthorn you are seeing? Most of the hawthorns are well out in leaf though. I don't see the Hawthorn flowers till the second week in May, and that has been regular for the past ten or so years. I used to keep a check on it, sad person that I am

Some dates from my diary.

1990 May 8th
1991 May 22nd
1992 May 20th
1993 May 6th
1994 May 18th
1995 May 25th
1996 June 11th
1997 May 21st
1998 May 8th
1999 May 16th

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Sandy
Carried it in full, then carry it out empty.

sandy, you could be right re blackthorn but i still think that the trees are still about right with their leaves .

jim

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It almost certainly is Blackthorn, it's been out for a few weeks now and the Hawthorn usually just precedes the first of the mayfly.

According to the long range forecast there is a good chance of snow in Scotland this weekend.

A new record for my area was daffodils in flower on 9th January, about two weeks earlier than the same place last year.

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Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary