As
you can see from the first photo taken on a December excursion to
Arundel with Liz, our recent wet weather is causing trouble. This
strip of water near another strip near a lake is usually a wide
footpath near a shallow moat near a field. The tree-lined avenue was
on this occasion partially flooded. It did offer more habitat to the
swans though.
You
can see that little bits of path are still there - but the birds don't
care - the mallards, coots, moorhen, and a cormorant all enjoyed the
extra water - it is just human feet that did not. This next shot is of
the path towards WWT...
The
other side of the avenue was no better - with waterlogged grass
beside the moat and also water logged foot path in places. It still
gave us plenty of swan activity though.
Back
home, and this fellow was helping the tits to demolish the peanut
supply - our come when it wants to jay! We have not seen him for some
time, so it was a delight to watch him munch his lunch - then fly
away.
I just hope the flooding doesn't damage that habitat in the long. I like that vertical picture of the flooded path, though.
ReplyDeleteit was only temporary - all gone on my next trip.
ReplyDeleteThat's good.
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