woodpecker | Cardesque Garden

but it has brought in a few more birds to the garden. At least it is nothing like the polar vortex that is hitting the US at the moment – I really feel for them over there. I don’t know how the wild life over there will cope with that kind of extreme cold, I guess many won’t survive.
I have been camped out beside the camera in the back room taking bird pics through the window.
The bird bath and pond are totally frozen so I keep putting out fresh water for them and feeding them as it is bitterly cold. I haven’t seen the fox with the poorly leg so I don’t know if it has survived.
The redwings wanted their bath in the the pond but it is completely frozen, and they don’t want to have a go in the 1/2 melted bird bath, so they will have to wait for Harry to melt a hole in ithe ice when he gets home. The pheasants have been picking up the little bits of fat that fall down while the squirrel is feeding at the fat cake. Trouble is all the other birds want to do the same, so there can be a lot of chasing about happening under that fat cake feeder.