Pennington Flash, rain at last

Photo: Kidney vetch on the ruck.

Thank god for rain! Not only is the countryside bone dry and desperate for rain, water levels at the flash are very low making it easy for people to get into what's left of the nature reserve part of the flash such as the spit. On top of that, the warm sunny weather gets people off their sofas and out into the countryside in their droves, and many of these then proceed to trash everywhere leaving tons of litter lying around, setting fires to various places around the UK including reedbeds and moors, basically wrecking whatever they can and ignoring the country code. So thank god for rain.

Rain also brings birds to flash, and the highlight of today was the impressive sight of around 1000 swifts and a couple of hundred hirundines hawking over the water. A garden warbler sang at the western end, also a sedge warbler in the same area but no sign of the hoped for black terns.

I hope it rains for the next 3 months.