Lucky me! When stopping by at home today I spotted an unusual bird in the trees in our garden. Fetched my cam and got some nice shots. When checking the pics I saw it was a female Eurasian Bullfinch. These are rather rare guests in Iceland this bird being the first record since 2011. Hope I'll see it more often.

Had the weekly check today. There's no snow around and the horses in really good condition. They were happy to see us and the big bags of bread we brought along as a Christmaspresent. 
Afterwards we had a nice chat with the farmers and the sheep managed to sneak some treats, too.

Visited our horses today and brought some treats along. Everyone happy!

Hjördís has arrived for her Christmasvacation and today we made laufabrauð, the traditional Icelandic thin bread eaten at Christmas. This time Ingólfur made it from scratch and I think we'll keep doing that in the future. It was fun to cut various patterns and then see how it would look after deepfrying.

Had to fetch Embla from Ísólfsstaðir today as she kept going through the fence to get to the even better pasture. All the other stayed where they were supposed to be but her majesty had different ideas. We can't have her doing that all the time so we fetched her and brought her to the securityprison with electric fences. Now our youngsters have a new victim for playing until we're going to take her inside. 

Since Ingólfur started feeding the birds in the garden, we've had quite some interesting guests around. Mostly redwings, but there've been 3 blackbirds, at least 2 blackcaps and now fieldfares joined, too. Not to forget about the raven...
The fieldfares are really cheeky and chase everybody else away. But sometimes they are so busy chasing others that they don't have time to eat. Think they'll have to learn to share.