No birds were involved but I was in Chesham this morning and decided to take a stroll round by the Town Bridge. Considering the drought I was expecting the usual dry bed. Instead the stream was running strongly and, unlike most local gardens, there was a strong plant growth as well. It wasn't just the spring at Watermeadow, there was a good flow coming down the old mill leat from Pednormead. I haven't seen anything in the press about Affinity Water cutting back on extraction and could find nothing on Google but with such a flow in these conditions it has to be the case.
The arable fields between Ley Hill and Latimer have been harvested over the last couple of days. This morning I saw a group of yellowhammers in the middle of the road by a field gate. From the look of things they were eating spilled grain. Instead of flying into the hedgerow they flew away from me along the road at windscreen height. I haven't seen much else recently apart from a distant glimpse of a partridge and the occasional red kite.
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