Last nights flood which affected the houses at the bottom end of the village has also destroyed the small Sand Martin colony, a second brood Grey Wagtail site, several Wren sites and one Spotted Flycatcher nest site. There was one Spotted flycatcher in full song this morning.
I was amazed to see the amount of water and I was even more surprised when a new record since I started to record weather data (2006) was set with a huge 75mm of rain falling in 24hours. In truth the water table was high already as it was heading to a record wet June before the deluge.
I did remark after seeing all the damaged trees and shrubs that this most definitely will have wiped out a lot of nesting birds.
The amount and size of the rubble pushed down Market St in whitworth is immense.
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Our house was ok thanks, but some damage to the area I use for the winter feeding station, but this can be put right, the houses at the bottom of the village had a couple of feet of water on the ground floor.
