First snow!

First snow in October!  Real snow too, big swirling flakes that are sticking around for a little while. 

The Caped Crusader doesn’t wait for me to distribute the food.

These are the four middle chicks, having a snow day in the greenhouse.  Snow is pretty much rain, only quiet.

The co-mamas and the  7 Silkies.  Adorable.  They’re so tiny.  I’m in dread of stepping on one, since they’re so small and brown and hard to see.   Luckily Marshmallow is fierce.  She runs off any of the other chicks and hens, so I know these little ones are getting enough to eat.

There’s a cuckoo.  Apples’ chick is large than the few days lead she has on the others, and is probably a Silkie cross.