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Boring Cornflakes - The Young Ones - BBC

Plants in close-up.........

Fledgling blue tit......

This baby blue tit, along with three others, had just emerged from a rather deep nest box in my back garden and had obviously exhausted itself in the process. You can hear the others calling in the background. They are incredibly vulnerable to predators at this stage and stay well-hidden. Their biggest enemy, however, is rain and low temperatures. Outside the nest and the warmth of brooding parents or their brothers and sisters they can very quickly become chilled, weaken and die. This weekend's predicted downpours are particularly unwelcome for that reason....

Environmental Science & Weather : How Does Hail Form?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/480038/Shock-UK-weather-warning-Tornadoes-hail-thunderstorms-and-lightning-to-ravage-Britain



Not that the Daily Express ever exaggerates impending weather events (weren't we supposed to have a hundred days of snow starting last November....?) Warm unstable air from the Continent does look as though we will be having some pretty hefty thunderstorms initially on Saturday but hopefully that will be a precursor to a spell of warmer weather. The real tragedy concerns the huge number of recently-fledged birds who will become soaked and chilled and inevitably die over the next few days.....