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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Wow 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 😉
Brrr indeed…I agree though, I'd much rather have frost than rain 🙁 It's dull and overcast here now.
Minus 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.
Very fast fluttering 🙂
That's its wings. It was hopping/flying to grab a berry. 🙂
What is that blurry thing on a second photo?
🙂
Yes, but also quite a slow shutter 😉