Seagulls on 9W dam.

It's never a good sign when the seagulls come on the property preening themselves next to the dam on 4 / 9 West as they only do it when there is excessive rain and quite often in flood times.  So I was a bit concerned on Tuesday morning after the deluge the night before to see them there.  It didn't lead to a flood but it was another 115mm for the week that we really didn't need.  It has had quite an impact on our programmes and has us well behind where we need to be.  Weather always plays a part in our operation but all this rain is quite frustrating. This week numbers takes us to 2150mm for the year which means that four of the past five years has produced more than two metres of rain.

I mentioned last week that the massive storm just after the renovation fertiliser went out may have washed some of the fertiliser away and at that stage we looked pretty good.  However after some time for the fertiliser to start releasing the nutrients we have had some loss.  There must have been some really heavy rain along the riverbank as its 1, 12, 13 and 8R greens that are the worst affected with a blotchy result and you can see below on the side of 13R where the fertiliser washed off the green.  This weeks bad weather hampered our efforts to top the greens up again.

Two fertiliser wash areas circled.

The renovation of the West greens is scheduled for next Monday and Tuesday and as mentioned for the recent River renovations we need dry conditions and the forecast doesn't look good.  We had the same issue last year with wet weather de-railing the West renovation so hopefully the forecast changes.