General (County) update - 5th November 2010

• The very warm start to November has resulted in a couple of sightings of very late swallows in Berkshire over the last few days.
• The black swans on the Thames have bred again - and now have two very young cygnets to show for their efforts. Black Swans seem to be quite good at this. When I say they breed occasionally at this time of year, because they are originally from Australia and November in Australia is late spring, I kid you not. The Thames black swans obviously think its still spring, the daft so-and-sos. What chance do the liluns have. Who knows?!
• All change weatherwise this weekend. I type away as rain batters the roof of the house, the wind is switching to a northerly for a time at the weekend - meaning daytime temperatures will be more like 8c instead of 18 - and come Monday night, the county is in for a bit of a rude awakening - a very deep low pressure will hit us - quite a bit of driving rain and gale-force winds -enough to bring some trees down maybe, certainly those still in leaf (not many now) will be shaking a bit...