On New Year's Day it snowed for a couple of hours and gave the garden a good covering. Daffodils and snowdrops are pushing up through the snow and the yellow primroses are bravely displaying their joys. The birds are eagerly demolishing the contents of the feeders and lapwing and snipe are visible in the fields around. The covering of snow which persists despite several sunny days allows us to see the tracks of wild animals that cross the grassland part of the garden. We appear to have more than one mole making spoil-heaps in the outer garden.