The days have been drawing in for a while now, but it wasn't until today that we had the first real sign of winter. The garden pond had the thinnest covering of ice this morning, but the real surprise was the much larger dewpond at work. This shot was taken at lunchtime, by which time we'd had several hours of weak sunshine. It must have been much colder than I'd realized last night.
Yesterday I posted a picture of a very white black-headed gull. Today's 'name that bird' oddity is a young blackbird.
Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens
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17 Nov 2007Wow Winter has begun brrrrrrrr! It was down to around minus 4c the night before around your area Words so the pond would have time to freeze over:)
Did you go skating 😉
SittingFox
17 Nov 2007Brrr indeed…I agree though, I'd much rather have frost than rain 🙁 It's dull and overcast here now.
Words
17 Nov 2007Minus 4c? Woaah! That's a pretty sharp frost for round here. Not quite enough for me to don my skates :smurf: Just checked the weather reports and it looks like plenty of rain over the next week 🙁 I much prefer cold and dry than slightly cold and very wet.
gdare
18 Nov 2007Very fast fluttering 🙂
Words
18 Nov 2007That's its wings. It was hopping/flying to grab a berry. 🙂
gdare
18 Nov 2007What is that blurry thing on a second photo?
gdare
18 Nov 2007🙂
Words
18 Nov 2007Yes, but also quite a slow shutter 😉