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Tec!! :-D The ICE on the car melted!

Jane you must have left tewkesbury before the snow reached there, well i assume they have got it as we've had it for 2 hours now. Glad you are home safely. Could the bird of prey and beed a red kite?

Ann ,I just rang my Sister to say we are home and the snow seems to have stopped there.They had had a good covering.There just a few flakes coming down when we left there.
That bird could have been a Red Kite.It just seemed to look bigger.So I'm not sure .I hope our Garden Birds have had their fill now and have gone back to their nests for the night.

Stopped here now too Jane.

Evening everyone
We have the white stuff here too. It's been snowing about an hour now, very light, not too thick. but settling.

put food out this morning, hope they have enough.

Linda xxx <3 <3 <3

The rate it's coming down now I think the dog will need stilts in the morning to go out lol.Good thing that the birds can fly on to the feeders and not have to plough through the snow :-D

Well I think we had about 4 to 5 inches of snow.It seems to be thawing now ,but I reckon it will remain quite deep on the lawn for a while especially if it freezes.The Birds have all come out now and are flitting around feeding and singing.The 2 Wood Pigeons are loving it up on the trellis again ;-)The lonely little Moorhen has been as has the Gt Spotted Woodpecker.
The dog has been for a walk around the back field and just loves the snow.It's funny watching him stick his nose down through the snow and then come back up with a big white blob on the end of it :-D
How much snow have you all had?

I reckon we had at the most 2 centimetres and it has all gone now.

Here in Berkshire we had about 7cm but through the day it is melting as we have had +2C. Just hope it doesn't freeze tonight it will be like a skating rink.
Filled up the sunflower seeds and water trays for the birds this morning. Been very busy all day.
Have had the chaffinches back, redwings possibly a mistle thrush too. Still the Robins rule the roost.

Linda xxx

You are lucky Linda to get Redwings, I don't think there are many of those about.

Ann they have been coming for a few years now they like sorbus berries (ASh) and the pyrocantha too

Linda x

We've just been visited by a group of Redwings, I counted 18 in the apple tree but there are probably more. It's years since I last saw any of those in the garden here at Chelmsford.

PS A few of them were fieldfares.

How lovely, the last time I saw Redwings was in the early 70s when we lived in Great Baddow.

Actually I live in Great Baddow about 200 yards from the Chelmsford boundary. Recent years have seen a nearby farm and allotments replaced by housing estates which seems to have reduced the variety of birds we see.

We used to live in The Westerings off Vicarage Lane which was then (don't know about now, behind the large car park and field that belonged to Marconi where OH worked. We had dutch Elm all down the side of the garden, we moved before the disease took hold.

Hi Everyone
Do hope you are all managing to keep warm
We still have a lot of snow in west London and I've just watched a gold finch breakfast on the niger seeds on the bird feeder.
Yesterday after it had snowed the sun came out and there were so many birds flitting about on and off the feeder. More than I've seen in a long time.
Several blue tits,long tailed tits, robins,blackbirds and a dear little wren was feeding on the ivy outside my kitchen window so I had a really good view.
Take care
Von

YESSSSSSSSSSSS atlast l have just seen a TREE SPARROW IN THE GARDEN:))
My first as far as l know :-D


Its on the blog as is Shaun woodpecker and blackbird. l actually put that on blog then happened to look out the back...and hey presto :-D

A very excited Jude xx

Ohhh l'm not so sure now :-( :-( :-S

Great pics again on the Blog Jude.I do enjoy looking at them all.
What is the difference between a sparrow and Tree sparrow? Sorry to be so thick :-S.I was down in the village the other week and saw a little bird that looked like a sparrow hopping its way up the trunk off a big tree.

Still loads of snow in the garden,but gently thawing.Loads of Long TTs on the coconut again.They have been around for a good week now.Plus all the little Blue Tits and Robins.I love the way they almost wait their turn lol.It;s like they are queuing up on the branches.Then they have a feed and take their turns again and while they wait they clean their beaks off on the branch.This is just outside my lounge window just a few feet from me :-D

Helo Jane:)

House Sparrows are much more common and have a bigger beardie bit than the Tree sparrow. Also the brown bit at the back of House sparrows head goes down to his back. The Tree Sp has a white ring all around....l think...lol
Check them out on websites.
There is quite alot of concern for the Tree Sparrow!! :-(

Thanks Jane, l love it too, just wish l was quicker at getting photo's on...lol

Take care
jude x

Jude you do a brilliant job getting all those pics on the log.Don't fret how long it takes.It's a fair bit of pressure on you.Everyone is patient lol
I will go and have a look up on the Sparrows.
I think that big bird I saw on Saturday could have actually been a Buzzard sat at the side of the Motorway.
One of our Squirrels has made a heck of a mess of the lawn.I think it is burying all the peanuts from the feeder.The lawn is looking very tufty :-S (well it was before all this snow.)Little holes all over the place :-S :-S.It spent hours the other day going from the feeder to the lawn ,digging ,then back to the feeder,digging ,back to the feeder and so on.It must have been exhausted lol