Garden Birds

We visited Ynyslas this morning, it was cold, wet and windy, and we didn't see many birds. Back home and tucking in to our overdue breakfast, the garden birds were also tucking in to theirs. The species that seems to have survived the great freeze most successfully hereabouts is Greenfinch, we have dozens on the feeders, Chaffinch is the next most common. Blue and Great Tits are also here in numbers and Siskins have returned. House Sparrows are also constant visitors. A first for us was a hen Pheasants, pecking at the fat-balls which she can easily reach by standing on the fence beneath the feeder. I didn't actually buy fat-balls to feed to pheasants but I hadn't the heart to shoosh her away.