Not surprisingly, the river is running high. In fact the island at Wye Rapids has disappeared. The only indication of an island is the trees emerging mid stream. I wonder what this will have done to the attempts made last summer to reinforce the island. A digger made its way to the middle of the river to stack up a shingle bank and then willows were planted in this embankment. The whole point of the island, which is man made, is to create the rapids for the canoeists.
The river has clearly over-flowed its banks and there is plenty of debris remaining to confirm this. What I am unable to offer a fully convincing explanation for is that within this flood plain, the moles have started to re-erect their hills. The original mole hills were not completely washed away, but now there are new mini hills atop these somewhat flattened and shrunken original structures.
My question is: how did the moles survive the flood? Assuming they were able to attain higher ground and thus escape drowning, how would they have known that they were in danger?
Intriguing questions.
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