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A crow and an egret

Wild Walk .🥾🥾..

   My walk today took me along a beautiful, familiar route at Studley Castle that I haven’t walked for months. The sun was shining intermittently, but it became quite hot as I walked. I started walking along the beautiful pathway leading to Studley parish church. The pathway was lined with blackthorn, sloes, and hawthorn shrubs. Wild dogrose hips, attached to straggling branches, were growing through the dense, matted hedgerow.

  A flock of sheep grazed peacefully in a field with many corvids pecking around in the grass. A robin redbreast suddenly flew up from the shrubs at the side of the pathway, followed by a tiny bluetit. The robin followed me along the pathway, fluttering and hopping from shrub to shrub. I arrived at the church; wood pigeons scattered into the tall trees surrounding the graveyard.

  I crossed the road and entered a field through a metal gate and walked towards the River Arrow. Willow trees and hawthorn shrubs, covered in red haws, were growing on both sides of the river. Himalayan balsam flowers were growing all along both sides of the riverbanks, among the reeds and various species of small trees and shrubs. With a loud, fluttering sound of powerful wings, a grey heron flew up from the river and disappeared over the nearby fields.

  On the opposite side of the river, many corvids were feeding; I photographed an egret and a crow feeding near each other. A lady walking a golden retriever crossed the field in the distance and walked towards the village. I snapped a couple of photographs of the egret before I walked back across the field and headed towards the pathway leading back to the castle. A man walking a miniature poodle came towards me as I began to follow the pathway.

  An inquisitive magpie, who was sitting on a fence, flew away fast into a sheep field as I passed. I finished my walk and arrived back at the castle, where I met up with Margaret.

Today I walked for 3.18 miles in 1 hour and 12 minutes. 

Google Fit awarded me 20 heart points.