Yes... Pauline just looked out of the bedroom window and announce "The Dabchick is back!"
So with the first of our Winter residents in place on the bief, Winter has arrived.
More later.............................
Update: Saturday morning... We are currently flooded at this end of the Aigronne... the bief is up two foot from the norm... our neighbours fields are awash, one containing winter wheat, and we have a flooded meadow. The meter is reading almost an inch of rain for the last twenty-four hours and it is still bucketing down. The plastic guage is over half full... can't read the divisions... I am looking at it with the telescope from indoors... but that's around three inches since last Saturday!
Here comes the sun
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Caught just as the sun was rising, this is the *château* at
Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher. I was standing down at water level just upstream of
the bridge.
*Le c...
Our biggest mistake ever... ha!
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So we spent the years between 1997 and 2003 working in Silicon Valley,
living in San Francisco, and driving down to Salton City to see and stay
with CHM...
Cardinal Beetles Pyrochroidae
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Cardinal Beetles are a small family of bright scarlet beetles. The larvae
are rather flattened and live under bark, predating other insects.
Larva of a ca...
The circle of fire - part 1: closing the circle
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My interest in the French transatlantic liner *La Touraine* started with a
small piece of newsprint that we found hidden in the masonry of our
chimney. Tha...
Season’s Greetings…
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It's been a long time! However, although the I may not be finding the time,
inspiration or inclination to write this blog I always try to find some
time ...
The tortoise and the hare
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I sowed a row of "Guernsey" parsnips in the *potager *on 30th April this
year. After a prolonged sulk they germinated. On 4th September I had six
little pa...
A name changer...
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One of our other blogs...
*Touraine Flint*
has changed its name and header...
it is now...
*Following Others' Footsteps.*
The change came about when we r...
Tried and tested uses of goose fat.... Wot??
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Being rather a rotund feline with a good appetite, I was reading the *Days
on the Claise* post of this morning about the Touraine Goose...
L'Oie de Touraine...
Based at our house near Le Grand Pressigny, we are centrally placed between The Brenne & The Loire Anjou Touraine National Parks and the Sologne, enabling us to observe wild events and discover new [to us] insects, plants and birds.
We started this record in 2003, when we bought La Forge and from time to time we will be publishing the odd species list of what we've seen here at La Forge and in the immediate vicinity.
We've also been building a collection of finds, mainly from prehistory... we record those as well on the blog Touraine Flint. As well as pictures on this site, we've been posting to flickr.
Guided Tours in a lovely limo!
Susan&Simon from Days on the Claise have another blog, Loire Valley Nature, which is "designed to be used as an English language natural history web resource for lowland central France." .
About our other, more occasional, bloggings... and other resources
We havent made any recent changes on our website.... but there you will find a nice web album of photos from around the house. Click on the Deptford Pink to start the slideshow.
From there you can also find links to our other blogs... Our'foodie' blog De la bonne bouffe, where we are posting recipes, local taste discoveries and snippets on life in Touraine du Sud...
Our occasional blog Touraine Flintwhich focuses on the pre-history of the area and Man's effect on the land and the environment up to present times.
Also there Art en Saule, which is a record of the of the attempts at management of our six acre meadow.
The early listings were only a few observations with an entry and usually no record of numbers! They had been taken directly from our 'birders notebook' Where there are further details from the book we keep at the house, they will be added later.
4 comments:
It certainly feels like it here. We lit the woodburner this morning for the first time (in the morning)
It's been wintry here for a day or two - in fact we had a sprinkling of snow last weekend. Groan.....
Jean... it has been raining all day.... and meteociel is showing worse for tomorrow!
Update: Saturday morning...
We are currently flooded at this end of the Aigronne... the bief is up two foot from the norm... our neighbours fields are awash, one containing winter wheat, and we have a flooded meadow.
The meter is reading almost an inch of rain for the last twenty-four hours and it is still bucketing down. The plastic guage is over half full... can't read the divisions... I am looking at it with the telescope from indoors... but that's around three inches since last Saturday!
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