I've just been for a walk along the Marteg to get a few photo's of the "Winter Wonderland". In places the river is frozen over with ice up to three inches thick and the falls look like a magic grotto.
A great spotted woodpecker was drumming away by the Longhouse and a green has started a half hearted calling down in the railway cutting. The tawny owls were at their usual roost in the tunnel entrance and in an alder tree by the river was a mixed flock of about 40 siskins and redpolls with a few goldfinches. Above the river I watched a molehill being formed, about every 30 seconds earth was pushed up from below causing that on the surface to roll down the sides. I never did see velveteen and when the snow crunched under my feet he stopped work.
