A cold, quiet day. The beautiful sunshine of earlier in the week has gone, but it's dry which is certainly a small mercy. With temperatures around freezing, and significant wind-chill it isn't the best time for going out photographing wildlife, but a brief trip to the pond found one pretty duck happy to pose for a few shots.
Out in the garden we're still being visited by various foxes, including a now heavily pregnant vixen. She's very shy (I've seen her twice directly, but she has both times flown out of the garden) so the trail camera is the next best option. Here she is being very calm and passive in the early hours of the morning.
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
Dudley
22 Feb 2013🙂
derWandersmann
22 Feb 2013Pretty duck, Words.
Are you still leaving peanuts out?
Words
23 Feb 2013Andy, :cheers:
Words
23 Feb 2013dW, yes there are a few peanuts out at night. Just keeps them interested enough to stay in front of the camera. The current group are exceedingly shy. The vixen has run through the garden a couple of times now and its clear she doesn't want me around.
SittingFox
26 Feb 2013Ducks must get very cold feet :smurf:
derWandersmann
26 Feb 2013Originally posted by SittingFox:
Seems to me that I've heard that they have some chemical equivalent to anti-freeze in their feet.
Words
27 Feb 2013dW, the primary circulation trick they have is that the arterial blood (which is warm) flows immediately adjacent to the returning venous blood so that the heat from the former transfers to the latter, reheating it slightly.
Words
27 Feb 2013Adele, birds and (cold) feet are one of the marvels of nature.