how much do I love my garden birds?

I think the birds will appreciate your efforts to get food for them :o)
What a lot of snow you have. I hope you're coping as best you can.

Great photo`s Sheila, well done both of you for braving that lot for the birds....

You are very very good to your poor birds. I'm sure they love you for it. That's a lot of shoveling for you too and I'm sure your snow is heavy and wet. Just take care trying to shift it....Just little bits at a time.

thanks for your lovely comments.Stocked up for both ourselves and our feathered friends.Just as well because its snowing again.:(((

That must have been muscle-demanding clearing that snow! Your birds are beautiful and it's so good for them that you will continue to feed them, despite having such bad weather to contend with.

No snow here....yet! Hope it stays away too.

arms and shoulders aching now Whistonlass but feel good that birds will be getting their much needed food.We have some lovely visitors and enjoy seeing the winter immigrants
Hope you escape the snow.
Sheila

Sorry to see that snow when we have none down here ... take care of yourselves after all that shovelling ... beautiful bird pics. Lovely to see them.

It would be a dull old world without our bird friends, good on you Shelia.

thanks shirley hope it stays away as long as possible for you

Your'e so right Heron we spend the better part of our lives watching our birds and worrying about them.We are torn apart when we see the sparrowhawk take one.It is a regular visitor but we know it has to survive also
Sheila

I just love your bird photo's Sheila,and they have gone on my favourites.Their colours show up so well,in the snow..
I hope the snow goes away for you soon..you are having it so bad where you live..we only have a covering here in Yorkshire,but it is forecast to reach us soon..:o((

thank you so much Bloomer looking back at my photos to put on here has inspired me to go back through my old bird photos.This has been a delight for me.
Hope you dont get it too bad when it does arrive.All chores are so much harder

Bless you, the birds will be really pleased with you i'm sure.

Glorious feather colours against the snow, fab pics

Lovely colours. Hulled sunflower seeds are favourite nosh for Gold Finches Scabious. That is a lorra snow shovelling you did. Hope you left the car nearer the gate perhaps.

Dorjac, hubby always insists on putting the car in the garage and we didnt realise the drive would be worse withing days. daughter and partner just dug us out ready for shops again tomorrow.Stir crazy after another week indoors.Good news is the icicles have melted but when the snow(some of it in 3ft+ heaps) will go goodness knows.

Our snow just vanished yesterday, very rapidly after it started raining, and went noticeably warmer suddenly. About 2 hours after I shifted some trodden in icy bits and put salt down. I enjoyed the exercise. When in Tescos last Monday a saw the snow going sideways past the windows and bought some extras. Drove home in half a blizzard. When I was a community midwife ( for 33 years) retired nearly 20, I loved driving on snow in a BL mini. Never got stuck in snow once. My working partner sometimes had the tractor out, driven by one of her sons, to reach someone in labour.....she was not young. She lived on higher ground.

the main story of our weather was a midwife from Hexham hosp.whose hubby is using his tractor to take here and here colleagues to work,
lovely and sunny here today but not moving the snow at all.