After the Storm
Sunday October 5 Hurricane May passed through on Saturday. Today was still very windy indeed, until mid afternoon when it gradually abated. Whilst accepting that most birds prefer to keep low in the wind, we were still disappointed by their paucity. We ended with the measly total of 48 hard worked for month birds. That sounds as thiough we had a bad day. On the contrary, it was lovely to be out in the countryside in bright sunshine, a cloudless sky for most of the morning. Sweet Chestnuts are shedding their prickly cases onto the road, Hawthorn is a mass of red berries, Bullaces, Crab Apples and Sloes promise food for birds and animals. Birch trees are the first to lose their leaves, other trees are beginning to turn into the russets of autumn. Horse Chestnuts are amongst the forerunners. Our LiquidAmber is starting to do so too. Snettisham bank was a roaring, car shaking, sand blasting experience. Couple that with a sea at its nadir.(OK Sue?). We didn't stay long, adding Cu...