20th May 2024 / Temp : 20 C / Water Level: Med-High

It’s still May, it’s still buttercups filling the sheep pasture – barely a hairs breadth between each stem, and mayflies! And what Mayflies – as we walked along the river the number of damselflies fell and the number of mayflies rising out of the water increased. The afternoon moved on, the temperature rose, the mayflies increased and then the highligh of May – the Hatch!!

Hundreds and hundreds of male spinners, each mayfly flutters its way up to the sky and gently floats down in a graceful performance where males seek out females, rising and falling, rising and falling in a mesmerising mating dance. They seem to prefer to like to perform under or beside trees, we didn’t see any perform on the stretches of treeless bank.