I started my daily wild nature walk slightly later tonight and I left the house at approximately 16:00. The temperature was around 3°C to 4°C, but the wind made it feel like -1°C to 1°C due to an easterly wind at speeds of 12–14 mph.

  A large flock of over 50 jackdaws were flying north, with several stragglers in groups of four or five. I researched this behaviour and apparently it’s normal for jackdaws to roost in large groups, sometimes with other corvids. 

  I met a man I have met before walking a small white Pug; we exchanged the usual brief, polite greetings. A hedge-hopping robin followed me around the outskirts of the recreation ground.

  When I arrived at the top end, I saw a group of about 20 fieldfares perched on two trees growing in the hedgerow adjacent to the cemetery. 

  I continued along the way and noticed the resident Pitbull Terrier was quietly sitting on the trampoline in his garden. He watched me impassively as I passed and didn’t resort to his somewhat aggressive barking today.

  I followed a couple walking a Cockapoo through the gates into the cemetery and began to walk around the pathways. I was surprised to see that the blackbirds and the fieldfares had hardly touched the red fruit on the crabapple tree yesterday. Obviously, this delicious-looking fruit is sour and inedible to the avian taste buds.

 I noticed a couple of wood pigeons feeding on the grass as I made my way towards the entrance gates.

When I began walking along the cemetery road, I photographed a small clump of daffodils containing the first wild, full bloom I have seen this year

  A blackbird scuttled underneath a thick woody hedge as I walked by.

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