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...............