Daily Nature Log ✍️
A brisk start at 23°C saw herring gulls and wood pigeons claiming the recreation ground, while the local ‘friendly’ Pitbull gave his customary single bark from behind the garden fence.
Entering the cemetery, I flushed a crowd of forty corvids feeding on the verges. Most scattered toward the top field, where I managed to photograph a pair of rooks taking flight.
Crossing into the field scattered them further—some to the young woodland, others over distant farmland, and a row onto the telegraph wires.
A quick approach for a snapshot sent the wire-dwellers packing too, leaving me to admire a splash of roadside color in the yellow lady’s bedstraw and bright Californian poppies.
Passing an Alsatian cross along Cemetery Drive, I cut through the wildflower garden and scored the highlight of the walk: a muntjac deer strolled casually right across my path before slipping out the entrance. Transfixed, I just stood there clicking away. A noisy finale at the leisure centre saw dozens of feral pigeons and a squawking trio of gulls locked in a roof-top dispute.
Walking Statistics
Distance: 2.57 miles
Duration: 1 hour
Google Fit Heart Points: 19
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