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A warm week ends with a day of sleet
- As predicted here, we've ended a fortnight of warm, sunny (spring-like) days with a day of cold rain - indeed as I type this, looking out of the window with a good few hours of "wet" to go - it looks far more like sleet or even snow that's falling.
- I wouldn't normally upload a satellite image of this weather front, but this is the most rain we've had for weeks, so thought I'd upload an image to remind myself of what rain looks like on such a satellite image...
- Anna and I have picked up another dozen or so toads this week (on the return to their breeding ponds) and this morning before dawn, upon realising that it had been raining for an hour or so, I drove the 15 miles or so to the toad crossing that Anna and I used to visit each March to help the toads.
- As I had thought, the toads were all lined up at the "toad barrier" (a small plastic fence that prevents the majority getting onto the busy road), most in amplexus - and I ferried 62 across the road.
- In order to do this, I had to climb over a fence myself into a private wood (not generally recommended, grapple fans) and this morning I bumped into the security guard there. I walked up to him and introduced myself and realised I was speaking to an old mate - a nice bit of luck!
- Plenty of frogs moving in today's wet weather also - our kittens brought in two frogs last night (which I rescued from them before I set off "toading").
- Not much else to report right now, other than I bore witness to a female sparrowhawk kill a collared dove on the river Thames at Caversham (Reading) on Friday gone and spent my lunch half-hour watching her devour it (at very close quarters - she cared not at all that I was within twenty yards of her, watching with much fascination).
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