We've kept the warmth today (the radio was talking of 25C in SE England) but more clouds have been drifting in and a weather front began moving in from the east. Up in Mach where we had gone for our regular meet-up to work on our Welsh, it was sunny and hot. That makes a change as usually it's hot on the coast and wet and/or cold in Mach.
As soon as we got home I hung the towels out to dry off on the line and then did a bit more painting by the garden steps.
And now for a few more photos from yesterday's walk. After the walk in the wild country (our lovely librarian wasn't sure how to refer to it as it's not really moorland with heather. She's going to ask her dad for me.) This page about the Teifi pools does refer to it as remote moorland. The Green Desert is an archaic term for this somewhat desolate area. We had wondered about the rounded hillocks, were they spoil heaps from medieval mining? But this extract from a geological paper gives a better explanation.
"Llyn (Lake) Teifi - a large ice dammed lake that developed in the Teifi valley as the Irish Sea ice sheet impinged onto the Welsh mainland during the late Devensian. ......... The overlying diamict, sand and gravel deposits are thought to have accumulated close to the ice front as it encroached into Llyn Teifi. During the final retreat of the Irish Sea a series of kamiform sand and gravel deposits formed along the margins of the glacier."
After the walk proper we drove to a nearby smallholding where some friends of the group have a number of rescue animals; sheep, goats and alpacas as well as assorted poultry.
It made me smile when A in referring to the pigeons on the roof said " We had three rescue racing pigeons and now look....." But the star of the show had to be the female emu who having been hand raised wasn't at all worried by the sight of fourteen extra people having tea on the terrace and spent her time peering over the gate making the weirdest booming noises. "High intensity booming, (60-80 Hz) is a female (emu) specific behaviour that is audible to humans up to 2km away." The sound is made by vibrating a pouch in its windpipe and is very unusual. Emus make a range of sounds, this clip is the closest to the sounds we heard yesterday.
And if you've ever wondered what a bird's ears look like this is a view of the back of the emu's head.
Who can resist a smile like this not to mention the topknot, even if the alpaca is thinking about spitting at you?
1 comment:
Wow that is some huge egg!
A chilly morning here today 38F.
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