Christmas Eve and all is well

Well, Christmas is finally here. We will definitely have a white Christmas tomorrow as there is still plenty of snow on the ground. It looks like the temps are going to warm up so they seem to think we will have rain rather than snow tomorrow.

Went out shopping for groceries this morning and we missed all the crowds which was good. So last minute grocery shopping turned out to be fairly painless.

Here is a photo of our back garden at the moment – plenty of snow about.

And here is our resident Hairy Woodpecker

The next time I write Christmas will be over.

So, MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL.

Yellow-bellied sapsucker

Last year we had a brown bird which we identified as a juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker. Yesterday we spotted a bird in the trees which we had not seen before and it tuns out this is the adult yellow-bellied sapsucker. Don’t know if it is the same one we saw last year all grown up or another, but we hope he hangs around as he is very pretty. He is a member of the woodpecker family.