Snow

The best (or worst depending on your point of view) snow of the year has fallen overnight and very lovely it looks too. My local patch looks particularly lovely today as you can see in the photo below. I've put plenty of food in the garden as I always do but it was interesting to see how quickly the birds turned up to feed today. Straight away the garden was swarming with (and this was a 5 minute look)...
Robin, Greenfinch, Blackbird, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Collared Dove, Wren, House Sparrow, Long Tailed Tit and even a Jay.

The Jay I've only ever seen feeding once before, most finches are rare in our garden and Collared Doves usually turn up mid-afternoon, not first thing. All in all it shows a covering of snow will effect birds eatings habits into a sudden panic of grabbing what food is available, presumably as most natural sources are hidden under snow.