When the sun shone for a while last Friday I got out for a walk up the lane not far from home.
The fields are green with wheat (or it could be barley.... I'll know later) growing well everywhere. There's no oil-seed rape anywhere on these fields this year.
Walking means you notice small things like this fox or deer trail across the field, they tend to follow the same routes although so rarely seen.
One Rook on it's own is a Crow and a Crow in a crowd is a Rook!
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Sue
Such a lovely walk; thank you for sharing the photos. xx
ReplyDeleteIt's been decent weather all week but I've had something happening everyday so haven't walked this week
DeleteNot a hill in site - not many flat walks round here! Your church looks beautiful.
ReplyDeleteIt's a bit of a hill - easy to walk but not good for cycling up
DeleteThere is a similar saying here about rooks and crows. We get both in our garden, noisy blighters!
ReplyDeleteThankfully neither get into my small garden!
DeleteA lovely, gentle walk to have on your doorstep. It's the one thing I miss, living in our current, edge-of-town house on a very steep hill.
ReplyDeleteMost hills in Suffolk are hardly hills at all!
DeleteYour church has such a pretty tower. Surely it has a place in your 100 churches of Suffolk book? I noticed the lack of hills too, although I know (from cycling) that Suffolk is not completely flat! We climbed up to the top of the Downs yesterday morning for a blow and a glimpse of the sea. So refreshing. I had intended a third consecutive afternoon of gardening but I had parish mags to deliver and by the time I got home it had clouded over and felt chilly - the garden can wait I thought. Sarah in Sussex
ReplyDeleteOh I wish I could climb a hill and see the sea!
DeleteLovely photo's, our village is between a town and a city so very urban, we do have the shore and one area of farm land, I miss country walks of my childhood.
ReplyDeleteIts a bit bare in Winter but nice to get out in sunshine
DeleteWith scenic walks on your doorstep there's no excuse for languishing inside (not that you do languish, (smile)). We have similar scenic walks around our village, but not as open as yours, ours are more wooded, with lanes leading mysteriously (to me) around bends. I would love to be able to go down those lanes to see where they go to.
ReplyDeleteNot far from our bungalow there is a tree with 23 rooks nests and my husband was told of the noise they all make..
Rooks are incredibly noisy and messy!
DeleteThat is definitely a crow! That is some pothole. And what an interesting trail across the field. I didn't know that they tended to follow the same trail - you would think they would follow thehedge to get a little more protection wouldn't you.
ReplyDeleteIt would be night time when they were crossing the field so wouldn't be seen
DeleteEven though there appears to be an hint of sunshine in your first photo it really portrays the cold of winter. Like some of the others I’d love a flat road like that to walk on
ReplyDeleteI'd like a hill to walk up for the view!
DeleteIt looks like my road except I can just see the mast in the distance. In fact I also see a mast but a different one.
ReplyDeleteHad to go back and look at the photos to spot the mast. A few weeks ago someone on the local face book page thought something terrible had happened because the lights weren't on on the mast - duh - it was foggy!
DeleteWhat a lovely walk, it's nice to walk and notice nature and what she and the animals are up at this time of year isn't it, I was doing just the same at the riverside last weekend.
ReplyDeleteThat church has a very intricate tower top, there's one near to us that looks like it was sawn off ... or maybe they just ran out of money when it was being built as it's in a very small village and a rural area.
I think I've now seen all sorts of towers of Suffolk churches - short and tall - spires or not - the blog has taught me lots about churches that I never knew
DeleteWe live in the countryside too and I love spotting the animal trails when I go out walking the lanes. Thanks for the little jingle that will help me remember my crows from rooks!
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
The rhyme is usually right - it's handy to know
DeleteWait, rooks and crows are the same bird, the difference is flocking or not? We don't talk about rooks here on the east coast of the US and I always thought they were a separate kind of bird we didn't have here. Always more to learn.....
ReplyDeleteCeci
Rooks and Crows are two different types of the same family. Rooks hang about in flocks and nest in groups and crows are usually solitary except when raising a family
DeleteThat's a very nice walk to take us on. I live in flat country, too, very mild slopes, good for walking and getting long views of trees and fields. I like hills in the distance, like where I was small, in the Yorkshire dales, not so much for walking though.
ReplyDeleteIts nice to have the big skies we have in Suffolk, but I like hills and woodland too - which we don't have so many of
DeleteIt's too cold, snowy and icy here to get out for a walk. Thanks for sharing your stroll with me!
ReplyDeleteYou are very welcome
DeleteYour fields are lovely and green. The wheat crop will be impressive. Our fields are largely brown. At dusk, yesterday, I saw 5 deer drinking at the stream on the west side of my property. I have not seen crows/rooks in a while. The red tail hawk seems missing too.
ReplyDeleteIt's been mostly mild enough to keep the crops growing well this winter
DeleteYou are blessed with such amazing big open skies in your part of the world. Arilx
ReplyDeleteCanadian speculating here that wheat will be a more profitable crop than canola this year, because of the war in Eastern Europe.
ReplyDeleteNice! I really like the first photo. I could certainly imagine walking up that road. The skies look wonderfully blue!
ReplyDeleteI vote crow. You know what I love most about your country? That there seems to always be the most amazing bit of architecture popping into the picture. A couple months ago, I noticed the castle in Pat's header. I loved that so much.
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