.... depends where, how hard and for how long to deterrmine whether it will be a pleasurable experience or not.
Woke up to 20cms having fallen overnight and it continued snowing throughout today. Had already planned to be at home today,needing to get into London tomorrow for a board meeting - joy. Dug my way out of the door, fed the birds and then went for a walk, the silence was stunning, walked down towards the trout farm which had a slither of unfrozen water, with a group of
Mallards paddling furiously up and down trying to keep it that way. A
Meadow Pipit tried landing next to the waters edge on the ice until it realised it was just ice and a
Long-tailed Tit flock held 2
Goldcrests. I walked back via the game crop in the field by the house and saw at least 8
Yellowhammers with a flock of c25
Chaffinches being looked on by a
Buzzard.
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| Garden under 20cms |
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| Lane down to Trout Farm |
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| Looking back to house over game crop |
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| Mallards and 'others' on the Frozen Trout farm lake |
Bird numbers in the garden increased gradually over the day with maximum species numbers at any one time being Great Spotted Woodpecker (5), Blackbird (8), Song Thrush (2), Redwing (2), Robin (5), Chaffinch (30), Blue Tit (21), Great Tit (6), Marsh Tit (3), Coal Tit (1), Nuthatch (1), Pied Wagtail (1), House Sparrow (11), Goldfinch (8), Greenfinch (3), Sparrowhawk (1). The best birds, however were Yellowhammer (one male and one female) and a male Bullfinch.
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| Song Thrush .... in snow |
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| Could be a xmas card ! - Happy New Year ! |
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| Female Blackbird ..... in snow |
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| Pied Wagtail.... in snow |
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