Sorry for the length of time I have not posted, I said in my last blog that I was busy, well so as not to tell people our house was empty I was in fact away down to Cornwall for a week with my sister, but I am back after my mammoth 1,248 round trip ( one disadvantage of living in such a cracking place).
What did we get welcomed back to, some extremely heavy rain, I had every intention of walking the 150 yards down to our burn/river Fender to take some shots to show you how quickly it rises & then falls. But we walked down to the village after the downpour when the Fender was in full spate & roaring, but on walking back an hour or so later (in the sunshine) it had dropped right back to near it’s normal level. This is a good illustration of spate rivers & is how people (fishers normally) can get caught out by the sudden rise & drown. We also have a large amount of hydro electric schemes up here & when the authorities release water from the turbines, this raises the level even quicker , with the same results.
We witnessed annual event this morning. We never get more than one or two Starlings in our garden & they are not a common bird in the village either. But every year they gather in flocks around the house, we presume in getting ready to migrate back to wherever they go back to. While eating breakfast we saw about 200 yds. away a flock of over 60 sitting on the power cables. fortunately they stayed there long enough for me to put my big lens on the camera & capture a small portion of them on the nearest lines. It would be great to see a murmaration of them (as we have seen down south) , but I doubt we will get one as they normally move on fairly quickly.
