Lower Hamble River

Friday 27 October

A quick walk across the road late morning to check o the state of the Hamble River at high to view the progress being made on repairs to the riverside walk produced rather a shock to the system!  Not only was the path still closed from the ferry per north but the water was lapping up against the path at a very high tide and the breaks in the raised riverside path had enable the water to break through and completely flood the inner Bunny Meadow.

Flooded Bunny Meadow looking upstream from the ferry landing stage

Looking further up river from the terminated path one could see that most of the path was now underwater and the obvious gaps as mentioned above.

The thin line in the centre is the now damaged and flooded path

However, there were still some birds to be seen the path including a pair of Wigeon making the most f the flooded meadow plus a fishing Cormorant.  Just a single distant Herring Gull on the far right and further up river it was possible to make it a lone Little Egret and a couple of Black-headed Gulls. A handful of Canada Geese were resting at the water's edge adjacent to one of the larger properties. And no sooner birds noted and photographs taken than the rain returned so ending a couple of hours of sunshine.

The much puddled riverside path looking north and showing how the river has almost covered the path

Birds seen:

Canada Goose, Wigeon, Cormorant, Little Egret, Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull.

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