This morning was the first hard frost this winter. It was -2 degrees which isn’t extreme by any means but cold enough to freeze the water in the bird bath. The chicken’s water dishes are sheltered so only freeze when the temperature gets quite a bit lower than this.
The chicken’s water bottles had frozen though and I think that I may take them away and ween the little girls off of them. They do drink from the water dishes too so should soon get used to just having those. I think this will be better in winter when the bottles will freeze much more easily.
Frozen bird bath
Frozen water bottle but not the water dish
The garden looked pretty in the frost.
The cabin roof and the rose
Shrubs
Frosty umbrella in the sunshine
rosemary
Fern
Tall grass against a blue sky
Sedum
I thought the sedums were the prettiest of all as every individual petal was outlined in white frost.
The same sedum later in the day
The girls all perch up when the ground is cold.
Little girls perching together and all fluffed up
Bigger girls perching together just before Emerald joined them
Emerald was busy in a dust bath but joined them a few minutes later.
Little girls
All the girls perching
Bigger girls above and little girls below
I love how the flock are together even though they are on two levels. They are together but still in their two groups. I like that even though they choose to be in two groups they do all gather together. They are a proper little flock.
Click here to see the history of my flock.
The girls look lovely all fluffed up. the garden looks good. Quite pretty in the frost. we dont get many hard frosts, the sea keeps them off.But very cold winds.
That’s the good thing about feathers, they can be fluffed up to keep warm. The robins in the garden look like little balls when fluffed up and Pebbles reminded me of them this morning.
I thought the garden looked pretty. For the last few days we have also had a really cold wind. The frost doesn’t last long but the wind really chills all day even though there have been lovely blue skies. It’s been feeling like winter for the last few days.