Weather confusion settling down

The prediction last night for here was right or wrong depending on who you were looking at. We got another couple of inches of snow overnight, but it started raining about half an hour ago so I suspect the snow will be gone quite soon if the rain continues.

In other news, I thought the weather had screwed with my internet as I had no connection this morning. Various rebootings later (of modems, routers, cable boxes) and I have a signal. No idea what that was about.

Bird watch

Just before Christmas I bought a bird feeder stand which has various hooks, a table and a water dish. I've now hung two feeders (seeds and peanuts), I load up the table with more seed and the latest hanging thing is a peanut cake which hangs off another hook. I've been getting more visitors as the weeks have gone by, and a wider variety. So far there have been collared doves (a pair that have been visiting my garden for a few years now), thrushes, blue tits, chaffinches, green finches, starlings, robins, pigeons, sparrows, blackbirds, and today my first great tit (very pretty it was too!). I have my desk positioned so I look out onto the back garden, so it's nice to see a flash of movement and watch the latest visitors coming for dinner.

With all the snow, I've been out and put a lot more food out, and the birds have been really getting through it. I bought more today. This could get expensive.