And today's birdsong is American Robin

4 p.m., and the wetlands are back to their usual state. Floodwater gone. Amazingly fast.

The Drifting Deck (or is it a lost dock?) has turned up again in the small channel. I'd go and grab it and use it in the garden somewhere, but that channel is wider and deeper than it appears.

The American Robins are singing and singing today: they are bigger, brasher and more in-your-face than European robins... and they are late for Christmas.

http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/212/overview/American_Robin.aspx