Flooded Fields and a Dead Fox

A walk this afternoon to view the flooded fields and our lane and to photograph them. The river has widened amazingly as it overspilled its banks and is now one with the water on the fields. The floods are still rising, the trees within and the bushes that divide the fields are now standing in a few feet of water.

 Gulls were very happily floating on their new wet territory, and several large black corvids were feasting round the edges. In the centre of one flooded field was a young swan, he must have been born last year because he still had a fair amount of brown feathers amongst his new white ones.

On the flooded river we saw two other swans both mature and swimming leisurely along. A short way on were another two mature swans, this time they were sitting together on the edge of the river. It is a long time since we saw five swans on and around the river, so perhaps they are increasing in number in this area.

The female fox has of late been visiting us alone, today we found the male by the roadside, he had been knocked down and killed, so sadly once again the female is on her own.