From the darkest depths

The Safari has been drying out this arvo and in between downpours dashed out to empty one of our spud bags for our dinner. Not a bad little haul considering the seed potatos were half price and their growing medium was home -compost that has been festering away in the 'dalek' since the year before last. They've gone into (well some of them have) a hearty winter stew with dumplings...just what you need on a mid-July's evening!!!

Whilst out tiding up the emptied soil we heard a commotion overhead - a Peregrine was noisily chasing another, best sighting of the day and only four feet from the back door!

We took Frank for a sprint round half of Patch 1 without getting wet - phewwww - one of the Peregrines (or indeed a third perhaps) was sat on the usual ledge.
A Song Thrush was out and about looking for snails and probably very grateful for this wet weather. Not far away Frank's nose led him to a dead adult Hedgehog, close to the road but turning it with our toe didn't reveal any obvious cause of death...shame to lose such a large breeding animal from our small local population.
Where to next? Another look at a variety of weather forecasts shows the wind stays strong for a while...what would we give for a Stormy?

In the meantime let us know if it's stopped raining yet in your outback.