Two New Visitors

I've been so excited today. We've had two new visitors to the garden. First we had this little Long Tailed Tit. Its so unusual to see them on their own as they are usually in small but quite noisy flocks. This little fella was getting such a hard time. He kept trying to feed off the fat balls but the Blue Tits were not having any of it. He didn't stay long and I can't really blame him but shortly after we had a visit from our second new bird. It was a very large Mistle Thrush. Initially I thought it was a very big fluffed up female black bird but as it got closer the spotted chest was unmistakable. I desperately tried to take a photo but my camera was on auto-focus and just refused to focus correctly. So frustrating. Again it didn't stay long but who knows they both may come back tomorrow. This afternoon I ventured away from the garden, not too far only about a mile and this is the view that awaited me. Isn't it just stunning. I don't think I've ever seen Snowdon quite so white before. When I got home I noticed the ice crystals forming intricate patterns on the window outside. Oh the sun actually shone today too, which made taking photographs much more fun.