Today has been rather tedious so I won't bore anyone with my drops. I was on my way to Fishlakes for a farm drop when I noticed a sparrow hawk using the truck as a beater. When I first noticed the Bird it was flying below the banks of a ditch, keeping just in front of the vehicle. It occasionally lifted out of the ditch and flashed across my front to the other side of the road keeping very low all the time. It must have kept this up for over a mile before giving up and crossing a field on my right. I have seen this behaviour in sparrow hawks before, with trucks and tractors. They must often have success catching small birds flushed by the vehicle, though I haven't seen one make a kill this way.
We have had a lot of rain in the UK during the last couple of months, many of the local rivers are over their banks. Crossing the Derwent between Sutton on Derwent and Elvington today I had a good view of the flooding while waiting for the lights to change on the bridge.
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