Early daffodils A clear sign of Spring

Wild Walk .🥾
  The residual snow from yesterday was frozen after a heavy frost last night. The temperature felt colder due to the wind; conditions were around 3–4°C, but felt like -2°C to -1°C. There was a fresh breeze (around 18–20 mph), making it feel significantly colder.
  I chose to walk mainly on the road, as the pavements were covered with slippery, frozen snow. When I turned into Cowslip Lane, I noticed a male blackbird scrabbling around beneath a shrub in a front garden. A magpie flew up to a nearby rooftop, prompting the blackbird to take off speedily.
  As I walked towards Foxglove Lane, a solitary wood pigeon was hopping around on a drive just along the road. I turned into the recreation ground and began to walk around the outskirts. I noticed the white, frozen snow on the blades of green grass looked quite wintry and crunched under my shoes as I walked.
  I left the recreation ground and entered the cemetery, where at least six wood pigeons flew away in different directions. Several small finches and dunnocks were flying around the trees and shrubs along the pathways. I noticed a male blackbird searching for food in the long, ice-covered grass under the hedgerow adjoining the playing field.
  Leaving the cemetery, I began walking along the cemetery road, where I photographed some early daffodil flower buds and leaves pushing through the soil on the borders. I walked a little further and simply had to take a picture of a row of fresh, black, soil-topped molehills.
  A large white herring gull was gently taking advantage of the fresh wind currents by gliding sedately high in the sky. I passed two ladies walking together with a couple of small, mongrel-type dogs.
Today I walked for 2.24 miles in 48 minutes.
Google Fit awarded me 20 heart points.
 

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