Even the balmy shores of the Borgue peninsula were not spared from the recent bout of wintry weather in the U.K. We have had a thin cover of snow down to sea level for a couple of days this week.

The first shipment of bird food has arrived and now we’re putting out regular feed for the local birds. We have a flock of about twenty chaffinches that hoover up a large proportion of the food on the ground in competition with five blackbirds. The blue tits and coal tits are the main customers at the nut feeders and we have had a visit from a great spotted woodpecker. We put out a new Nyjer seed feeder and it has so far attracted three goldfinches as well as some of the chaffinches. Other than that we have seen green finches, sparrows, dunnocks and robins regularly feeding around the bird tables. I’ll add some pictures of the birds if the weather gets light enough to get some decent photographs.

We have taken most of the packing boxes out to the Castle Douglas recycling center now and there’s room to get Rosey the mini into the garage. Much better that having to scrape the ice from the windows.