I walked outside into dazzling bright sunshine with a mild breeze today. Three jackdaws were perched on a rooftop when I turned into a local lane and I noticed a wood pigeon on a nearby house. I walked around the outskirts of the recreation ground. A few rooks from the rookery were around, making a lot of noise as they called to one another, and a wood pigeon was flying over the cemetery.

I arrived at the entrance to the cemetery road where my friend the Pit Bull Terrier was standing on a trampoline in his garden, staring straight at me. I stood and stared back, smiling, and he never made a sound.

I raised my hand to wave goodbye and he visibly tensed, but he still never made a sound, and we continued to stare at each other. I think I have definitely made a friend here, as not long ago he would have raised the dead in the cemetery next door with his loud barking.

I walked into the cemetery where the bright dazzling sunlight was blinding the rooks flying around above the rookery treetops. I started to wander along the cemetery pathways, and as I turned away from the sunlight, I could see about 50 rooks flying around, making their harsh, guttural calls to one another. Several rooks and a few wood pigeons began flying away as I made my way out of the cemetery.

I noticed the recent wind had blown down many pine cones, which were scattered over the cemetery road surface, thick enough for me to slide on and almost trip me up.

I walked along past the leisure centre, where 10 house sparrows were perched and hopping around on the branches of a hawthorn hedge adjoining the next-door care home.

A man walking a Cockapoo-type dog passed as I walked along past the cricket club pavilion.

Today, I walked for 1.7 miles in 35 minutes.

Google Fit awarded me 26 Heart Points.

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