Thursday 23 December 2010

photos

Thankyou Janet for some more lovely pics. It was interesting to enlarge the image with a click and pick out the common gull. Makes a change from looking at the feeders and seeing a diminishing number of birds in spite of putting out a large quantity of food. Perhaps the answer lies in the journey today down the A485 where we dropped from -1c at Tregaron to -9c in Lampeter with huge hoar frost absolutely deadly to the bark gleaners. I hope our birds are travelling south though it was a shock to see complete snow cover even on the coast in JB's pics. I note the Teifi with surface icing and the icing up of small damp areas on Cors Caron so the thaw can't come soon enough. On the bright side I have heard goldfinches and robins managing a phrase or two and the great spot was drumming away on the metal stanchion on a telegraph pole