This has been a very unseasonal spell of weather. Yalding which lies nearby up the Medway valley has attracted national interest owing to the flooding it experienced over the festive holiday. It is unclear how the wildlife will have been affected. A large number of trees have fallen, this due, not so much to the winds, although they have been a factor, but the water-logged ground which has meant that the roots have had little of substance to cling to.
The water voles's holes will have been submerged, but I suspect that this particular mammal will have survived unscathed. It is the human animal which appears to be most susceptible to the vagaries of the weather.
A lone redwing joined the blackbirds on the rowan tree today.
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