As I write this I'm listening to the rain pounding down as it has been doing all day, although it is getting more intense and one can't help but wonder how bad things will get this time, with yet another, stronger system due to arrive in a few days.
Yesterday, we had a break in the weather so headed over to the dyke....
the fields were still basically dry....there was a huge flock of geese, I think mainly Cackling Geese, out there but too far away to really tell....and yes, that is a patch of sunshine on the hillside.
there was a lot of activity in the bushes at the start of the walk, here some of the House Finch...
and a Spotted Towhee....
even a little female Downy Woodpecker joined in.
I'd heard a 'snap' and then saw an Eagle flying over with a branch....
there is a new eagle nest under construction in this poplar. Now this is interesting. These poplars were where the eagles used to have a nest but one winter, a storm snapped the tree off where the nest was. That was when they moved and built a nest in poplars between the river and the dyke, but that nest was pretty much destroyed a couple of years ago, they attempted rebuilding, but it just really never worked. We saw eagles flying with sticks to both this new location and the other location, so we don't know if we have 2 pairs building different nests, or 1 pair building 2 nests in hope that one survives. We will just have to keep watching. We know there is another new nest along the other section of the dyke. That one looks pretty secure and the pair are usually seen perched close by.
Took this mainly because there was some sunshine! Something we haven't seen much of lately.
yet more Geese and other assorted waterfowl in another, slightly wetter field seen as we were heading home.
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