This is a full colour photograph – it’s just that the colour present really was minimal. :)
Enjoy the tiny sun-sparkles in the snow. It was very cold, very.
Sparking sunlight glancing off ice-coated branches
Times can be tough for a small bird in need of a snack when it gets really cold. The icicles are filtering the morning sunrise (golden hour)
Not sure why it’s called a lake, it’s really a wider part of the St-Lawrence River
Earlier in the day (about -12C) it had been snowing but as the snow tailed off this sky appeared from the north-west.
This winter is turning out to be as great one for flocks of Common Redpolls coming down from the northern forests. Delightful little birds.
** Click any image in the gallery below to see them at full size
Haven’t had many birds lately and there’s been a surfeit of snow so here’s a bit of weekend colour.
Sometimes there is a hawk perched in this tree so it’s always worth checking – not today though. Just admire the tree for its own sake.
A view that regular visitors here will recognise – along the hedgerow that leads to the bird banding station. Very deep snow on this occasion, even with snowshoes we were up to our knees in it.
