Daily Nature Log ✍️
    Stepped out into a 22.5°C breeze blowing in from the west.
    I gave a passing bull terrier a wide berth—it has a reputation for snapping first and asking questions later. Down at the football pitch, twenty gulls were busy foraging, with a couple of herring gulls joining the feast.

    Along the perimeter towards Cemetery Road, hardy patches of yarrow, ragwort, and mallow are still standing tall, somehow defying the recent extreme weather. Even the neighbourhood’s usually lively Pitbull Terrier barely raised an eyebrow from its spot in the garden, giving me little more than a sleepy glance as I passed.
    The real highlight was inside the cemetery: an immediate face-to-face encounter with a male muntjac deer. Expecting it to bolt the moment I raised my camera, I started snapping furiously. Instead, the bold little chap barely blinked, calmly eyeing me up before getting right back to grazing.
    Further along, a solitary magpie worked the grassy verges while a noisy chorus of at least forty rooks circled above the trees. Six wood pigeons suddenly scattered from the grass in all directions, and over at the leisure centre, seven feral pigeons kept watch from the rooftop edge. To top off the walk, a brilliant clump of yellow evening primroses has suddenly burst into bloom near the cricket pavilion.
Walk Statistics
Distance: 2.27 miles
Time: 57 minutes
Heart Points: 25 Heart Points

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