Goldfinch Distancing

No messing with the goldfinches on the feeder: they either had 'click and collect', home delivery or like everyone else they have to queue which isn't so great in the fog and rain. Sticklers for wearing their masks which is good - I do like their rather fetching red but some just have to feel the rules don't apply to them.

Our goldfinches left a while ago just for a short time possibly because of multitudinous sparrowhawk scares but the cold which has descended on us here has forced the family back onto the feeders. There are always squabbles.

This morning we had the goldfinch family, a pair of greenfinches, and pair of chaffinches, a couple of robins, a wren, collared dove, wood-pigeon, 3 crows, 2 magpies,  a blackbird and a female too, Nick the squirrel, a few dunnocks, a disloyal coal tit who is scarcely seen and must have richer pickings elsewhere, more blue tits than I've seen here in a while but no sparrows. Now there's a thing......

We have nest boxes up and they were full,  chokablock, filled to the gunnels and positively overflowing with sparrows AND they've gone! Not being alarmist about the national sparrow population but what where how why ....? 

Had a lovely day  today with Tammy and we went to a garden centre. She is an interior designer and I've come home with 3 silver birch tree trunks to put on our dining room ceiling. (Hubs has not yet tripped up over these but he could so I feel I should fess up that they are there) NOW  this IS going to be interesting! I think I have another why, how, where, when, which scenario. I am not going to be beaten by covid and we are going to have a fabulous Christmas and if we don't it won't be through lack of effort