Clear blue sky reappeared today, the breeze not as strong, and warmer. Today being Veronica's birthday I sent her our recorded birthday greeting on WhatsApp. The usual Monday housework jobs after breakfast. Clare went for a walk, I prepared and recorded next week's Morning Prayer then cooked lentils with veg and rice for lunch. Afterwards I wrote a reflection and recorded it, and started editing the two pieces of audio together before going out for a walk.
On my walk in the woods alongside the Taff I saw eight Goosanders all swimming together, then a mallard mother with three small ducklings tucked in behind her swimming up river. In the pool below Blackweir, two slightly older mallard ducklings with their parents were swimming together.
Nearby a group of six or seven young salmon were swimming, their backs lit up by the afternoon sun. I saw this once before last year. This time I had a camera with me, and took a couple of photos of them.
For the first time in three or four months a cormorant was poised drying its wings on a rock, and on the east bank further down sat a Heron sunbathing with its wings spread out. Something's changed. Perhaps an improvement in the food supply has led to these reappearances. The salmon may be early arrivals waiting down stream for the autumnal migration to their spawning grounds in the Bannau Brycheiniog streams, and the low level of river water may mean they're stuck wherever they can find a deeper pool where they can hide from predators.
I identified the call of a dunnock and a chiffchaff in addition to wren, robin, thrush and blackbird in the woodland. In several ways an interesting afternoon in the park.
Clare went out to choir practice at six and after eating supper, I completed the audio editing and watched the third new episode of 'Krimi aus Passau'. Sadly, no more are available, as they are good watching.
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