A longer slower walk

A rewarding longer walk today (no rain!)

I did 3 15 minute BIG butterfly counts in different areas, in the town, countryside and the cemetery! More butterflies in the town than the other two. One unusual one not included , a Wall Brown so I sent a record to the County recorder.

Twenty five bird species seen on my 2 hours including a few Swifts and Swallows and one House Martin.

BUT the highlight was a very large (perhaps because if was very near :-). Peregrine Falcon which zoomed past me at a little
below tree top height and it rose and dipped over trees scattering Woodpigeons and Jackdaws.

It was the best I have felt in a long time. a nature cure?