again, and again..... looking back this cycle of non-stop cyclonic weather seems to have started the day I finished planting my bulbs in Mid-November. Every third day there is a brief respite - sometimes only hours - before another drenching and high winds . Some of the bulbs have now shown their heads (I'm sure some have drowned).
So yesterday (Tuesday) after a bucketful in the morning it cleared around 2.30pm and for an hour the sun came out ! - The response of the birds in the garden was a bit of a frenzy, added to that it was obviously good weather for raptors to stretch their wings - In half an hour from 3pm I stood in the 'middle' field and saw 7 Common Buzzards, a Red Kite, 2 Ravens and a male Sparrowhawk.
Today was back to the new normal - winds recorded in the west country exceeded 100mph, here it was just very windy and very wet, but no complaining as the poor folk in the west country and the Thames Valley who have flooded houses must be longing for this to end.
... wet or not I will try and venture out tomorrow !
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