<\/span> Christmas Day morning, from our garden<\/span><\/p>\nLondon was mainly clear, with a few icy patches on less used roads. Whitestone Pond in Hampstead was frozen over and it was the first time I ever recall seeing people walking on it. I was driving so didn't get a photo, but it seems that the newspapers<\/a> did. To be fair, the pond is very shallow (a watering hole for horses in reality) so the danger of falling through this particular pond is rather less than might be imagined. Still, it's not something I recommend.<\/p>\n Hampstead High Street was completely clear of ice. The thaw continued into Boxing Day which took us out to the Kent Coat where we even saw a little bit of sunshine. Back home there was still ice on the roads, and frozen snow in the garden. This from last night. I spent an hour in Rottingdean this afternoon. No snow or ice there, but it was certainly windy. As for the birds, it was the cormorants that caught the eye. They were more numerous than I recall seeing there; and they were flying much closer to shore than usual. Still no new photos of foxes, though we did spot one in the garden late afternoon and I'm sure the trail cam will record their nightly visits. I'm relieved that the snow has gone (I think the band of snow crossing the country overnight will pass to the north of us). It's been nice, but very disruptive.
<\/span> Hampstead, London at lunchtime.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Camera note: The first 3 shots were taken with the Panasonic FZ45. The Rottingdean\/cormorant shots were with the Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens\/ <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[484,676,603,246],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cormorants","tag-hampstead","tag-herne-bay","tag-rottingdean","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}