I don’t think I’ll be moving far today – not far from this computer in fact.
The kitchen is quite cold – one can tell by being there or by looking at how cloudy the olive oil has gone!
But the garden is lifting with birds. There are still several Reed Buntings out there and a female Blackcap. A couple of Long-tailed Tits just came through. And there have already been Chaffinch, Greenfinch and Goldfinch – but I’m still waiting for a Brambling this winter.
It’s cold, a bit breezy and misty here, and it looks foggy in the valley. If only this were a weekend with international rugby then the shape of the day would be set. But I guess I’ll be looking out of the window and filling up the bird feeders.
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That is pretty much what my day will be too.It is cold,misty and a bit foggy here in Calderdale also and I expect pretty much the same across the country.The birds in my garden have been wonderful for days,Jays,Song Thrushes( 3 ) pairs of Nuthatch and Bullfinches,Gt Spotted Woodpeckers to name a few.
Lovely to think there will be many of us doing exactly the same thing!
Ros – enjoy! Let’s compare notes at end of day.
Come to Herefordshire for Bramblings – up to 6+ on feeders and still good flocks of Fieldfares 20+ on remains of apples on orchard floor.
James – sounds great!
Here in NE Scotland (near Banchory) Brambling has been the most numerous bird at the feeders with up to 40 birds. Other highlights include a pair of Yellowhammers.
Alister – wow! Sounds exciting. Do any Blackcaps get that far north? We’ve had a regular female for several weeks. She loves the fat balls.
I have not been lucky enough to have Blackcap but I see there was a male seen yesterday at Lossiemouth in Moray.
Courtesy of http://www.birdsinmorayandnairn.org/bird-recording/recent-records/
I am 15 blackbirds short of a pie
Half a dozen bramblings at least here in our South Oxfordshire garden feeders. (Not for sale I am afraid)!!!
I have a goldcrest regularly visiting at the moment. A first for my garden!
The snow hasn’t prompted great numbers, just a wider range of species. Except for a record 5 bullfinches, who ignored the feeders and stripped the buds from my gage tree. No plum crumble for me this year!
We have field fares and redwings and more song thrushes than I’ve seen for years. When we ran out of apples I found they liked roasted butternut squash. The goldcrests have learnt to use the fat balls this year- last year they would only take crumbled mealworms scattered in the fir tree branches. There has been a red kite over the valley but how long for (North Derbyshire) I don’t like to guess.
Some carelessnessness with a lid allowed snow to drift on to my fatballs which became soft and sticky so they had to be lovingly re-formed and dried by a radiator
Have you written that book yet?