I put out a lot of food for the birds who were mightily glad of the buffet! We have lots of feathered friends coming to visit, including robins (two who seem to be squabbling over the territory), blackbirds, thrushes, starlings, a whole family of sparrows who sit on the fence chattering away, magpies, blue tits and chaffinches. I put out fat snax, mealworms, cubes of cheese and greasy slices of bread and the lot went down very well, especially the mealworms which disappear very quickly indeed.
In the background today we could hear lots of shooting going on over the fields and I'm still worried that we haven't seen any Red Kites lately. There was hardly a day went by that we didn't see one hovering over the fields or the village, and even over the garden, but Keith and I haven't seen any since before Christmas. I put a post about them on our Facebook page and quite a few neighbours said they'd seen them, so why haven't we?
We gingerly took Sophie to work this morning and the main roads were pretty much free of snow. We came back and had a lovely cooked breakfast in the conservatory before taking Mike over to Brixworth as he was visiting friends. The skies remained grey and overcast and I would dearly loved to have seen some more snow falling!
Mum and Dad came around in the afternoon to admire the new living room and we had a good chat over a cup of tea in the conservatory. We did see a few more light snow flurries but certainly not enough to cause any problems!
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| View from my computer |
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| Archie doing a spot of bird-watching |
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