A walk round Gooseman's Field.

29/04/10

It's all too easy to dash to places near and far in search of exciting wildlife to see and photograph and often we ignore our immediate locality. Despite living in a typical suburban environment we are quite close to the edge of town. A walk round the corner and through the local cemetry, itself a haven for widlife takes me to Gooseman's Fields, two areas of unimproved meadowland. This is a regular running route but it was also interesting on a beautiful morning to take it at a slightly slower pace to see what was about. I was pleased to see plenty of early butterflies - whites, small tortoiseshell, peacocks, at least 5 speckled wood and two holly blues. Although I only had my 500 lens with me I even managed to get a half acceptable photograph of a speckled wood. There were also at least five singing male whitethroats, chiffchaff, willow warbler and plenty of linnets. An excellent couple of hours without taking the car out!