Due to heavy rain and storms over the past few days and reports on the news of the river flooding, I decided to have an afternoon walk along the river Severn at Hampton Loade.
It turned out that the river was in flood but, as you can see from the photos, it hadn't yet reached its peak - which are predicted for a couple of days time.
Along the river walk going towards the water works bridge, a flooded area in one of the grass meadows had appeared and there was a large flock of Canada geese feeding there along with a few mallards.
Part of the Canada geese flock - there must have been a least 200.
Amongst the flock were two darker hybrid type individuals. The photo below shows one in the centre and one to the right.
By the water works bridge is an old oak tree, which I had noticed on numerous visits here over the years. I tried to get some shots of it but the sun was low in the sky making it difficult with exposure.
Nevertheless, here are a few examples:
Also a large tit flock was working its way along the trees alongside the river and a superb male bullfinch showed well giving off its distinctive low piping call.
As I walked back to the car along the river the sun was setting through the trees and glistening over the surface of the water. I tried to photo it shooting into the sun using various camera settings but without much success as you can see below.
Notice the 'flare' on the above photo due to shooting into the sun
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