Glorious weather wander

After a coffee at Tescos, I set off for a walk around the parish, via Cradle End, Green Street, Hoecroft Lane and down Brick kiln Hill to home. About a 4 mile wander in superb light and warmth. Birds were in short supply, but quality rather than quantity. Towards Cradle End the highlight, a flyover red kite. Reasonable shots here as it glided south, attracting the attention of a few corvids.

As I wandered along Green Street, bullfinches called from deep inside vegetation and pied wagtails, skylarks and redwings called overhead. In Millfield Lane another good sighting, a peacock butterfly, one of my latest. Yellowhammers, corvids and finches were in the hedgerows along the lane before I traipsed across the polo fields and into Hoecroft Lane.

noisy carrion crow

peacock butterfly

starlings

Into Hoecroft Lane and along with wonderful colour, a pair of great spotted woodpecker posed distantly for a photo. The female shown here.

All in all, a wonderful walk with green woodpeckers, magpies, jays and a distant common buzzard also recorded. Here, a selection of the colour on show.

Green Street living up to its name

Muggin's Wood

Nag's Head, Little Hadham from Brick Kiln Hill