Yes, we went out without the camera on Sunday and saw a kestrel, kite, barn owl & (just as we were commenting that we hadn't seen it) a buzzard, went out with the cameras few days before and only saw a seagull, some swans & deer.
Here's an image taken of the valley from above in 2000, but it looks very similar now with the valley clearly defined. Our fields are away in the far distance and off to the left;
An interesting shot, and shows where the limits of the flooding are very clearly. We had similar here in 2000. It was at that point, after a number of years of not flowing, that they found where the winterbournes and Lavants flowed. Where they had been run through culverts, there were lots of blockages as stuff had been built through them, dropped in the river bed and washed down stream, and all tied together with weeds that hadn't been cut for years. They are far more careful with it now.
Hope there has been no building on that flood plain.
Here's an image taken of the valley from above in 2000, but it looks very similar now with the valley clearly defined. Our fields are away in the far distance and off to the left;
That look`s more like the Mississippi delta than a Yorkshire river,
A case for dredging badly,you need to dig your valley`s deeper like here in Wales,lol.
Dredging wouldn't work here for the river - there's a great big concrete barrage over the end of it. The dykes need it though, lots of pots are blocked because of a lack of cleaning out, some areas never clear, even in summer.
That said, the Humberhead Levels are one big delta;, the line of water running across the middle of the picture, right to left, is the southernmost extent of the last glacier in Britain.
No, we don't put buildings in the floodplain round here, only the lockkeepers cottages but I think they must have been built with flooding in mind.
The cottage right by the river down the hill from here flood every time, but it's built with a slope, so the water runs straight back out when the river goes down.
I think in the past most places had some way of dealing with floods. Round here it was mainly built in storm boards or sometimes slots for them by all the doors. The first time I have heard of a slope in a house for drainage, but seems a good plan if you don't mind being on an uneven floor.
A case for dredging badly,you need to dig your valley`s deeper like here in Wales,lol.
If we had valleys here like you guys, the water would be rushing in from the other direction. We're only 30ft above sea level here and 13ft in the Ings.
Glad to say we are a few hundred feet up, but the highest point in Portsmouth (on Portsea Island) is a railway bridge, which I think is about 15'. You can see why in our part of the world high tides are of more concern than river flooding.
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