Through the meadows where I’m accompanied by the near constant song a Skylark somewhere in the distance. The verges meadows are full of colour this morning. Bright butter yellow Buttercups and pale blue Pale Flax dominate the meadows. Horseshoe Vetch and Yellow Rattle add even more yellow to the landscape.
The hay rake quar is awash with dark blue Chalk Milkwort and bright sunshine yellow Birds-foot Trefoil. It’s hard to walk through the area with out standing on any of the tiny flowers, as they almost carpet the whole area.
Heading down the drove the path is lined with Wild Carrot their lace like flower heads swaying in the light breeze. Movement catches my eye as a Red Admiral Butterfly flutters its way across the path ahead of me.
Into Johnston meadow where Bracken is popping up all along the edge of the past the leave starting to unfurl. Bright pink Common Sainfoin is also starting to come into flower the conical flowering stem poking out of the grass. Oxeye Daises are also starting to flower their big white flower heads turned towards the sun. looking at this field full of colour and listening to the constant Skylark and other bird song it’s hard not to smile.
A Black Cap sings atop an Ash Tree, with a Robin also singing in a lower branch of the same tree. The Black Cap spooks disappearing into the scrub leaving the Robin with full use of the tree.
Looking out of field 2 a Roe Deer bounds across the field spooked by a walker on the drove alongside the path. In the due pond Dunnocks peck around in the soft banks, while above Chiffchaff hope around the branches of a Hawthorn smothered in blossom. A large clump of tall Yellow Flag Iris is in flower in the middle of the due pond. The bright yellow flowers drawing your eye from across the field.
Heading back to the Learning Centre, a Kestrel hovers over my head body staying perfectly still, with the wings beating feverishly to stay in one spot. The scratchy call of White Throats can be heard with the birds popping out of the scrub a couple of times to sing from the top of there patch of scrub.