Garden

With a biting cold wind and frost laden cars making me reluctant to leave the house, I've been catching up on my paper records and installing a new computer after my old one died on New Years Day. So the only sightings I have are from my garden feeders. Bird numbers are low with maximum numbers of 2 Blackbird, 1 Song Thrush, 3 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Coal Tit, 2 Hedge Sparrow, 1 Robin and only 1 Chaffinch and no House Sparrows?. Jackdaw and Herring Gull drop in when I put out stale bread on the shed roof. On the bright side I just had a party of Long-tailed Tit (10) visit the feeders to brighten up the day. Overhead there are the odd Kite, Buzzard and Heron. The nearby mountain of Foel-y-Dyffryn has Rook, Magpie and Jay feeding in the fields and trees otherwise quiet.