You'll be pleased to know I have no more snow pictures(for now!) as it is just too blooming cold for me to go out - the last 3 days has seen temperatures of -12 at night and between -3 and -9(yesterday at 3.00pm) during the day. The snow is piled up in 2 metre high drifts which are now more like ice bergs and the roads are still quite treacherous certainly around Normanby so I have been glued to the garden feeders. Over the last week we have got through 15K's of seed hoovered up mostly by 5 Pheasants, 1 Red Legged Partridge, 1 Jay, 13 Tree Sparrows, 5 Blue Tits, 6 Great Tits, 4 Cole Tits, 4 Dunnocks, 3 Robins, 1 Song Thrush and 6 Blackbirds! plus 4 Goldfinch are devouring a bag of Nigella seed. Nearly had a Curlew in the garden yesterday as it just skimmed the fence and we are still getting over the excitement of the Woodcock however whether it is still alive is a worry as I heard someone shooting up at Little Normanby yesterday (as if the birds haven't got enough to contend with).
Sorry couldn’t resist!
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