Maximum temperature today 4C, minimum -7C. Feels like -10C Dry; 15 km/h Easterly winds with up to 35 km/h gusts.
Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)....
Great excitement, a first for us in our garden...
Take a look at that massive beak. Its food is mainly seeds and fruit kernels, especially those of cherries, which it cracks with its powerful bill.
You can see here it is quite a lot larger than the Great tit bottom left...
Great tit (Parus major)
Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)....
The water keeps icing up....
Complaining! So I went out for the 4th time in a couple of hours to break the ice.
Female House sparrow (Passer domesticus)...
Icing up again!!!!!
Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto). So much larger than the house sparrows around it.
European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis).
European greenfinch, (Chloris chloris).
