Oxford feels a lot calmer the past few weeks now that we're between terms, so I've been entertaining myself with lots of long walks around Portmeadow and Marston Fields. Despite all its old-fashionedness, Oxford has won me over with its abundance of green space. A 5 minute walk from my house and I feel like I'm in the middle of nowhere - lovely. We're properly into spring now and it has been, incredibly, consistently sunny, on par with the spring of 2020 which I spent most of reading in my garden in Leicester. The change in the weather has brought with it some new visitors, like chiffchaffs, whose song I didn't realise I associated with spring until I heard it for the first time the other week. I feel more in tune with the changing of the seasons now that I've started to notice the birds around me. I also feel like I've got the hang of working with my camera a bit more.
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The woods on the way to Marston Fields
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| Jay in Marston Fields |
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| Linnet in Portmeadow |
I've become sort of obsessed with spotting woodpeckers over the past couple of weeks, but haven't been able to get a good picture yet. They're quite skittish and move so quickly between the trees. Usually I just try to follow them with my binoculars. Treecreepers and nuthatches are other current favourites of mine, but quite hard to find in Oxford.
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Heavily cropped Great Spotted Woodpecker
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| Treecreeper |
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