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goldfinch blizzard

I'm in Central Scotland, this morning we're on the edge of a blizzard, the hills I can usually see less than a mile away are in a white-out. My garden is in sunlight with flurries of snow blowing past horizontally and over 12 shrieking Goldfinches have just landed on the feeders which, thankfully, I filled up yesterday knowing that the weather today was meant to be awful.

The robins are hiding out in the 'Red Robin' (I'm sure they think that I planted it just for them) and making occasional sorties out to grab suet pellets and fly back to their shelter and two very fed-up looking blackbirds are sheltering in the lee of the fence. My usual crowd of chaffinches is nowhere to be seen today, even the wood pigeons are conspicuous by their absence, the wind is so strong and gusty.

I was thinking of putting the nest boxes up this weekend too.

Oh-oh, here come the siskins to oust the golfinches, I hope the sparrow hawk stays away. Real life is never dull.