Well, it’s early October and what prenominal weather we have had this past month! The driest September since records started back in 1910; must have been I imagine, one of the warmest too? Wood ants have been active still in the past few days.
Ponies have been enjoying the delay of autumn wind and rain. At Broadwater, they have been browsing heavily on shoulder-high birch. Elsewhere, they are still taking bracken a little – usually only during a few weeks in August. Heather has possibly had a longer flowering season? House martins are still in evidence either feeding or migrating through.
All change this weekend, with the jet stream moving south at last with a low accompanied by wind and rain sweeping down across the country. Redwings, harbingers of the winter to come, have already arrived in a few places elsewhere in the country.