Winter bird table

The plots are ready in waiting to provide a source of seeds for seed eating birds to help them through the winter - mustard, fodder radish and sunflowers.

Birds on wild bird mixes

We wanted to post these pictures because we were so excited at how successful the mixes were at feeding the birds in the bad weather when they were most in need. We are amateur photographers so you will have to bear with the quality .. it is definitely not Springwatch standard but we have recorded the moment. It was minus 2 degrees and just check out the number of birds - do bear with it for the first ten to fifteen seconds, we think they were finches, flying over the bird seed plots.

When we were standing very still they all came down to feed, but would then fly off in a cloud again as you can see in the video.

Bird mixes in the snow

We were amazed how many birds were feeding on the bird mixes during the snowy weather. Some days there were literally hundreds of birds feeding - an incredible sight as they all flew up into the air and back down again to feed.

Walking around the lakes

We went for a walk around some nearby lakes and took some snaps of the birds - a lovely sunny and tranquil day!

Bird walk

We had a great bird walk on the farm this weekend. Twenty five people came for a 6.30 start and we saw and/or heard 32 different species of birds! A great start to the day with a good breakfast and we raised some money too for the parish church.