Devon Life

Hard frost, misty and sunny

Pheasants: 1
Great tits: 1
Greenfinches: 6
Robins: 1
Blackbirds: 4
Dunnocks: 2

Next day (and next year!)

Cold, misty and sunny

Pheasants: 4
Great tits: 1
Bluetits: 2
Chaffinches: 5
Greenfinches: 5
Robins: 1
Blackbirds: 9
Dunnocks: 2
Wood pigeons: 1
Spotted woodpeckers: 1

Next day

High overcast, frosty, East wind

Pheasants: 8
Great tits: 1
Bluetits: 1
Chaffinches: 3
Robins: 2
Blackbirds: 4
Nuthatches: 1

Next day

Frosty, sunny, cold East wind

Pheasants: 8
Great tits: 1
Bluetits: 1
Chaffinches: 2
Greenfinches: 1
Robins: 1
Blackbirds: 6
Crows: 1
Nuthatches: 1

Next day

Sunny and frosty

Pheasants: 1
Great tits: 1
Bluetits: 2
Chaffinches: 2
Goldfinches: 1
Robins: 2
Blackbirds: 11
Dunnocks: 1
Spotted woodpeckers: 1

Next day

Sunny and cold

Pheasants: 3
Great tits: 1
Chaffinches: 3
Robins: 1
Blackbirds: 2

Next day

The first in a series of posts recording the feathered visitors to my garden over Christmas - a preview for the official Big Garden Birdwatch.

Dull overcast and cool

Pheasants: 13
Great tits: 2
Bluetits: 1
Greenfinches: 1
Robins: 1
Wrens: 1
Blackbirds: 4
Dunnocks: 3
Spotted woodpeckers: 1

Next day

My first post for a long while, after being very busy and achieving, it seems, not a lot!

Yesterday was good though - my first Christmas invitation. I went to my friend Henriette's house to decorate biscuits. We do this most years - a group of friends dating from when our children all went to the village school. Henriette provides an amazing range of hundreds and thousands, silver dragées, chocolate drops, jelly slices, cherries, angelica and other sugary things whose name I don't know; several bowls of coloured lemon icing, and freshly-baked lemon biscuits in all sorts of shapes. And of course cups of tea!

We sit there gossiping and having playschool fun - and here are the results:

There is a preponderance of cows which I made for another cow-mad friend I'm visiting today. My favourite is the pink and white penguin just left of centre in the photo.