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Up to a 5/6 now, just starting to settle on the grass.
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Since 6am, we have had beautiful clear blue skies, snow at a rate of about 2 on the SM scale and now back to a beautiful blue sky again!
Temp currently 0.8°c here after an overnight low of -2.2°c.
Edit: and back to snow again....
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The poor Daffs in the garden don't know 'weather' they're coming or going at the mo'
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Just back from a quick trip to Hopton which is situated between Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. This area is having all kinds of problems due to the constant easterly winds. Sea defences have smashed, path to what used to be a beach has collapsed, and the cliffs are in a very dangerous state. When I got there I saw lots of people from the environment agency and council workers standing around shaking their heads. There are a lot of property owners along there who are getting extremely concerned. I took a few pics but they don't really tell the full story.
Scary Gary,
I have never seen those wooden defences before, surely they must only have been a short term solution?
Great pics though.
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That is an excellent photograph Marc B. I have never seen a woodpecker in the wild and I always imagined they were somewhat larger than your picture indicates when one compares it to the Blue Tit in the picture. Many thanks for sharing it with us. I have certainly learnt something today.
Cold and misty this lunchtime in NW1. Not a good view out of the office window here on 27th floor.
Kind Regards
Dave
Thanks Dave.
The Great Spotted is actually the middle size of the three that are native to the British Isles, the Green being bigger and the Lesser Spotted smaller.
The skies have now completely clouded over here too, so from what was a beautiful morning it has now turned into a repeat of the last few days.
Temp climbing slowly to 3.5°c.
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Following on to my picture posted yesterday of a Green Woodpecker and then a subsequent conversation about other Woodpeckers,
This is the female Great Spotted Woodpecker sharing a suet block with a Blue Tit.
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Yes a beautiful morning here too, temp reached a low of -1.8°c overnight and is now 2.1°c.
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I had a couple of Green Woodpeckers in my garden last year. They were drilling holes in my lawn with their beaks.
I Googled it and apparently they love Ants. Very pretty birds
Exactly what this one was doing Jan, apparently they peck at the top of the earth to startle the ants and then bury their beaks and wait for the ants to scurry past, clever little things.
We have both the male and the female visit but never together.
ive never had the green one visit, but a red/white/black one visits most mornings to have his/her breakfast on the peanut feeder
Thats likely to be the Great Spotted Woodpecker, the red is very visible on its tail feathers. If it's red on it's head, then it's a fairly rare Lesser Spotted Woodpecker.
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Turning out to be quite a nice day here, broken cloud and less windy than for a few days.
Temp holding steady at 2.2°c.
Just had a visit from this little lady again
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Temp currently 2.2°c here and falling after a high of 3.1°c earlier.
Had a few snow flurries earlier, the ones where you have to stop what you're doing and focus
All the snow from the weekend has now gone though.
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There were a lot of substances around during the 60's as well I believe??
Is that you Coast?
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How is your temp so high, had a max of 1 yesterday, 1.3 now and I'm in the london heat island.
No idea to be honest, I thought something was wrong when I saw the temps being reported yesterday.
I guess being 100 miles or so north of you, is making all the difference?
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Last of the weekends snow just about hanging on in the garden, just a couple of shaded areas with a patchy covering.
Temp here at the mo' 3.7 and rising after a balmy top temp yesterday of 4.1.
Driving to Carlisle on Saturday via the notoriously snowy A66, my fingers are crossed for an improving situation!
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A few pics.
Temp now 1.6 with a dp of -4.8
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Temp rising quickly now here, up to 1.2 but as quick as the temp is rising the dp is falling, now -4.5.
All the snow on the cars bonnet just slid off but still a few inches on the windscreen, looks quite odd
Looks as though we may be in for a bit more?
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Wow.
I really did not expect this. This in my mind, with no facts to back it up, is now the most memorable winter/(spring) for laying snow I have known.
I lived in South London until 1997 and remember the winters of the late 70's and early 80's, since then I have been in Peterborough.
This morning I have 17cms on the grass, 12cms on the car and 9cms on my trusty garden table. If it had been just a couple of degrees colder yesterday, I really think I could have been looking at as much as 30-35cms of laying snow but unfortunately as I have said previously, yesterday afternoon, the melt was quicker than the accumulation.
As soon as I got up this morning I went out and fed the birds, as I write there is an absolute frenzy out in the garden, I can see, Jackdaws, Wood Pigeons, Magpies, a Jay, Long Tailed Tits, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Robins, Chaffinches, a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, and a Meadow Pipit.
And to top it off, the wife as just brought me 2 toasted bacon sarnies, have I died and gone to heaven??
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Just starting to settle on the green part of the garden again after a slow thaw throughout the day.
Apart from a brief lull for about an hour earlier, it has been snowing all day.
Current temp 0.6 with a dp of -0.4.
Deepest measurable depth at the mo' of about 3 cms, which tells me that from about 11ish this morning, it has been melting quicker than it has been accumulating.
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A few pics from the garden.
Temp 0.8 and rising, dp -0.3 and rising.
I could hear the snow falling off of the trees.
As a big kid that i am when it comes to snow, I really have had enough now. This weekend last year we had a bbq at home with 20 family and close friends with us, we had a great night, the fire pit glowing until midnight and plenty of beer and wine, o hum.
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Morning, everyone - what a winter wonderland this morning. Currently have about two inches here and it's still snowing - they're only tiny flakes of snow but quite heavy!
Snap!
I will get a piccie uploaded in a bit.
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After my horizontal snow for a few hours this morning here, it has been quite a nice day, dry, bright, cold and breezy.
What will tonight bring though?
Temp 2.9, dp -2.1.
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That's because you facing the other way?< lmao just kidding!
I new there was a simple answer
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Have had horizontal snow here since I woke up at 6, curiously though, out of my front window it is blowing from west to east but from my back window its east to west!
None of it laying though unfortunately.
Temp 2.3 and rising, dp -0.6.
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Very heavy snow shower just north of Peterborough at the mo', the flakes are huge! Grass just starting to turn white.
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sadly it's to 'white' to get any-kind of picture! proper white-out! and has been for while
Love it!!
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All the very best Stewart, your insight will be sorely missed on here. Good Luck.