The snow fell in instalments over the past five days, partially thawing during the day but then freezing again overnight, no fun at all....
....for the birds, a few of which are beginning to return to our back garden. We've seen....
....chaffinches, blackbirds and....
....coal tits, but only a very few, a pale shadow of the squabbling masses we had feeding during the spring and early summer. One of the problems may be a sparrowhawk which zooms along the line of gardens in the hope of catching the birds off guard.
That the birds are returning is good news but we have to be very grateful to this character, our resident robin, for sticking with us and giving us endless amusement. Today he was at the pond for a drink, we assumed....
....but wrongly. He was there for a bath. Brrrr!
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