Still winter despite being spring

So I'm still indisposed with sciatica and bad back and Wayne is living it up in Varanger, Norway with Graham and Neil, life's just not fair but with a reported first nights temperature of -34 whilst in Finland I think I made the right decision not to go! Plus I would have missed the 18 Siskins and a solitary Redpoll on the Niger seed feeders this afternoon and no doubt Wayne will come back with lots of photos for the blog which hopefully will go on early next week.  It has been absolutely freezing here though with an inch or so of snow on the ground this morning and talk of rationing gas supplies as apparently we are running out having had such a long cold winter - we may officially be in spring but it doesn't feel like.