The rain may have stopped for a while but the forecast is for more to come as even more depressions sweep in along an especially strong Jetstream. Extensive flooding across the country is mirrored here with roads flooded and many fields waterlogged. The ground has been saturated for some time now
so the rain just sits on top if it can’t flow away. The farm by Salterns Way has potatoes underwater as well as this section of field that looks like a river.
Bringing a note of happiness are several skylarks high in the sky singing their hearts out; I saw at least three individuals, so pleasing to see and hear them. Further on there’s plenty more birdsong, especially happy little Robins and
the repetitive Chaffinch.
At Salterns Copse there has been some coppicing undertaken, a significant clearing has been made. It’s been done sensitively, on a small scale, unlike the wholesale destruction that happens in some other places all too often.
Between Copperas and Dell Quay there were a few wigeon sitting offshore as usual; as luck would have it a flight of about a dozen flew in to join them. Not many other wildfowl around although there were about ten Curlew in the field on the edge of some set aside.
Nice to be out in the sunshine for a change but hard work walking in such clingy and deep mud.