1 February 2016

A winter morning in Onuma.............



Onuma was pretty cold on Sunday morning....................



As you can see the Ural Owl has carved a niche for itself in the snow.

I was trying hard to get nice shots of the Falcated Ducks but it was too dark, they were a little bit too far away too. I could only find one drake, I don't know what happned to the other one.


I hope they stick around and get a bit tamer. It would be nice if the sun shone too.

Damn Mallards kept getting in the way too..................




These shots were on a monopod at fairly slow shutter speeds. A pair of White Tailed Eagles flapped lazily over and slowish shutter speeds on a monpod are not ideal BIF settings. One of the eagles was very close..................wish I had been paying attention a bit more.


Strange to think the lake was hardly frozen at all just a month ago.........................it was very wintry.

Terry Wogan gone too. It seems every time I look at the internet another famous name from my childhood has passed away...............

4 comments:

  1. Falcated Duck....a bird of my dreams! That Ural Owl must seem like an old freind.

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    1. There are actually 2 Ural Owls, this one is the less reliable of the 2.............

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  2. They look all hunkered down trying to stay warm. I bet they wish for some sun, too.

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    1. I'm wishing for some sun too actually..............

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