One advantage of all this snow we have had is the amount of birds that have invaded the garden. Against the white background their colours look absolutely stunning. Today alone we have been watching black and white woodpeckers, green woodpeckers, blackbirds and thrushes, sparrows, dunnocks, jays, blue, coal and great tits, chaffinches and a couple of lovely yellowhammers. Four buzzards, three ravens and a sparrow hawk also passed over today.
Only downside is the amount of chicken food they have been taking including the chickens treats of sunflower seeds, walnuts, sweetcorn, apples and blackberries! The jays love the acorns we collected in the autumn and watching them try and pick them up when they have frozen to the dishes is funny but they never give up until they free one of them.
Still all the birds have kept us amused with their antics on yet another cold day.