RSPB Garden Birdwatch

Yesterday's forecast snow materialised around 11pm as sleet, so didn't settle on the ground.  This morning dawned bright and sunny, dazzling off the snow still lying in the garden.  It's Murphy's law that as it's slightly warmer, fewer birds came into the garden just on the day we want to do a count for the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch.  However, it is more of a regular scene rather than one of many extra birds coming in because of the cold, so more realistic.  We had no pheasants, no starlings, no thrushes, but we did have a house sparrow.  The massive flock of linnets were flying around the field behind and lots of them landed on the trees at the end of the gardens - 30 on the ones in our own garden - we can't count the others.