Yesterday Pete went back to Madrid after spending too long looking at forecasts on the computer and convincing himself it would not be flyable. The thing with these days with rain and storm warnings is that things can actually take a long time for it to actually happen and allow us to have a fair amout of interesting thermal soaring. The picture below was taken as I was climbing towards base soon after take off. A very nice sky to get into I am sure you will agree. The point of that picture (as well as annoying Pete) was to photograph the huge plumes of pollen rising from the pine trees near in the valley towards Gredos. Tricky to see in the photo, but it almost looked like a forest fire as tons of pollen was hoovered upwards by the thermals. We noticed a smilar effect when flying over the back at Lastra a few days ago with the peaks covered in pines looking like erupting volcanoes.
By around 2pm the sky did begin to deteriorate to Cbs with a little rain at home later in the day.
For those who are following, our baby blue tit is still thriving. I must get to work sewing some tiny Jesses.