Birds on the plots

Check out the birds after we had mowed the plots. We are thrilled that we have provided food all winter for them and you can sense that spring is coming now. The birds were singing away this morning and love is in the air - check out the next post.

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.

Snow on the farm

Just like the rest of the UK we have seen more snow in the last couple of week than in several decades!

Grapes on the vines

Grapes are growing on the vines!

Butterflies

Walking on the farm with the camera I spied these two types of butterfly on the cover crops that we have planted. The brightly coloured tortoiseshell and the white butterfly. The cover crops were alive with white butterflies about twenty flying around ... a beautiful site.

Bees in abundance

Two of the cover crops that we have planted fodder radish and phacelia have been alive with bees this weekend. I am a very amateur photographer and the pictures don't really do the scene justice - there were literally hundreds of bees working away across the flowers. Imagine if all farmers just planted a small field corner or gardeners planted a part of their flower bed - it would make a real difference to the bee population.