Daily Nature Log
    Today’s daily walk was a 1.92-mile loop completed in 42 minutes (earning 17 Google Fit heart points) in warm 23°C air with a gentle 9 mph breeze.
    At the recreation ground, the contrast was striking: a hosepipe watered the lush green football pitch, while the adjacent cricket field lay brown and rain-starved—hard to believe it’s cricket season! Small cabbage white butterflies fluttered among the nettles along the perimeter.
    Reaching the cemetery road, there was no sign of the female pheasant today. After spotting a small brown butterfly near the brambles and stopping for a few ripe blackberries, I was greeted by the “friendly” Pitbull Terrier barking harmlessly from his garden trampoline, where I snapped a quick photo.

Moving through the cemetery gates, a single sparrow darted across the entrance, a woodpigeon rested on the concrete path, and several white butterflies hovered along the borders.
    Leaving the gates behind, a herring gull soared high overhead while a dog walker and his yellow Labrador led the way towards the leisure centre.
    On the leisure centre roof, a flock of feral pigeons had gathered into a roosting colony, while a solitary black-headed gull kept watch from a nearby rooftop by the care home. Further along, an energetic Comma butterfly danced around the nettles near the five-a-side pitch, and I spotted a familiar local out in the distance with his two Cairn Terriers.

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