On Thursday morning as I was walking down the road a jay flew off the road onto a birch tree about 10/12 ft from me, perching on a bump on the trunk about 8ft from the ground - the nearest I've ever been to a jay. As I was doing my weekly yoga/pilates session in the sitting room yesterday morning, it was flying about the birch trees outside.
This morning there were 2 foxes at the end of the garden, one lying in the sun being groomed by the other.
On my cylce ride this morning I passed poppies where the ground had been disturbed north of the football ptiches on Hackney Marshes. There was also a clump of them in the middle of one of the filter beds in the old Essex Filter Beds nature reserve - that had been flooded over the winter. Along the new path by the Navigation just north of Leabridge Road there were poppies again - but in all sorts of colours. Part of me was disapproving that garden poppies had been sown there, but another part of me thought they looked very pretty.
The slope at the bottom of Springfield Park is meadow, and full of white clover and some bright yellow flower, but I didn't stop to check what it was. Coming back on the other side of the marshes. on some ground cleared last year, are some plants, some with blue flowers, some with white and it looked very colourful. I really must find a good wild flower guide so I can look up what they are!
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