A month of rain.

January started off mild and this continued throughout the month with grey skies and rain and just the odd sunny day. We recorded nearly 9inches of rain over the month.
We tried various walks including the old railway line and Turner's Field,






Park Wood and Hamstreet Woods, donning wellies and waterproofs.









Park Wood
The mild weather has brought so many flowers out early. The snowdrops have been in flower since Christmas, with a group of narcissus also blooming all month. The primroses and crocus have thrown out some blooms as have the campanula and one or two hawthorn branches have broken into leaf.


Along the railway line we found hazel catkins blowing in the wind along with a single dandelion flower.


Across the marsh the incessant rain has raised the water table and flooded dykes, fields and areas of the shingle through the trapping area and the desert.
The flooding of the Dowells is an amazing sight, although it isn't bringing in many birds.











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