After a couple of days of warmer weather and snow melt, this scene greeted me on awakening this morning, traditionally the coldest day of the year. Snow really changes a landscape and gives it an ethereal quality, deadening noise as noise waves are absorbed within it's crystal make up. But snow also brings problems to our little feathered friends and it is especially important at times like this to put some food out to help the birds in their foraging for food. The RSPB gives some helpful tips on what to feed the birds that visit your garden. Attracting birds to your garden is a very wonderful thing to do and the little splashes of colour among the trees and shrubbery is a delight that lifts the spirits. Don't forget that it is equally important to put out some water on a cold or snowy day as the usual supply might well be frozen. A shallow dish such as a saucer is probably best.
Here is another picture of my garden taken this morning.
