Zigs, are you there?

Thats right Dave, its the saturation thats causing the problem at the moment. We saw floods on the top of hills today.

Whats worrying me now is Solifluction

 

According to this BBC report the water's still rising on the Somerset Levels http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-20524682 about some place called Muchelney that I expect Zigs will know.

 

Muchelney is 3 miles north of me, the same flood is the one I can see from my bedroom, it has been getting deeper, been watching a tree in the middle of it, can't see the trunk anymore, and one by one the Weasles, voles and moles are dropping out of the branches

 

I saw something on telly or heard on the radio yesterday about the government's proposed badger cull. Some chap was saying there's no need for a cull now, nature's already done it.

I'm afraid its a bit of a disaster for wildlife. Consider how many things live in the ground, now drowned. That would include often overlooked things like many bugs that are the food of other creatures, or polinating insects like bumblebees, not to mention the more obvious creatures like all the small mammals.

Its not just somerset that's affected. Granted, in human terms somerset appears to be worst hit, but much of the country is flooded to some extent. A lot of land is now covered in water. Even if its only half an inch deep, that still means its flooded the habitat of everything that lives just under the ground.

 

So true, the water came up so fast not much could have got out of the way.

 

Speaking of solifluction.....Some of the poor folk of whitby are feeling it now

 

Blimey,

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/audi...-cottages-as-flood-warnings-persist-1-5176187

 

And this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-20527471

 

(dog) Found a hedgehog at the plot a couple of days ago that was probably flooded out of it's nest but had got stuck somewhere, perhaps for days before we found it. Sadly it didn't survive. As it only weighed a tiny 250g and around 600g of body weight is required for survival over winter it would have died anyway, which is no consolation as we wondered if we'd found it sooner whether the nearest wildlife hospital may have saved it as the poor little thing died shortly after we 'rescued' it.

 

What a shame... and i only read a week or so ago that the Hedgehog population was on the up.....all change now.......

 

Aww, thats sad Scrunge

 

Maybe if I'd walked every path, every day plus taking dog because I wouldn't have seen it otherwise, then perhaps I could've saved it (despite it being so tiny), but not this time unfortunately.

I still remember my hedgehog rescue success story:



But there must be just so much wildlife lost in the flooding.

 

You can't be everywhere all the time Scrunge.

 

How very sad this is all becoming at this time. I saw a heron in a ploughed field today just scooping up worms ect. But, I'm sure Mother Nature will get around this -she always does.
Jenny