The lengthy cold weather has forced us to push on with adding a front to the workshop, with big double doors so we can build the huts under cover with some heat from a decent woodburner.  Several house sparrows fly into the workshop to roost each evening, so we will be making sure they have access once the front is on.   Uniquely Plankbridge is based on a nature reserve and we have been really pleased with the number of wild birds coming in to the bird feeders.  We also put lots of 'spilled grain' along the wall of the old watercress bed opposite the house.  We still get several yellowhammers, although numbers are well down on the 30 or 40 we used to get five years ago; I think some nesting habitat, untouched by mowers around April / May will help them.  The yellowhammers are joined by ten or so blackbirds, mallards and moorhens.  In the last few days goldfinches have started using the fine seed feeder outside the kitchen window and (we think, as some blackcaps over-winter here now) a female blackcap has joined the usual large crowd of garden birds on the sunflower seeds and peanuts.  A thrush is enjoying the rose hips on the house, and we saw a bullfinch eating the guelder rose berries.