Winter Wonderland

We got 4" of snow on Sunday night.  It's so pretty out here when it snows.

And so silent.  It's warming up now so it won't be around long.

I was trying out my new camera today and I took this picture of a Black-capped Chickadee.

I was playing with the zoom and was about 20' away.

It's not that great of a picture but I post it because the next picture is a great one.  I was snapping away in burst mode and I got him just as he was flying away.

Can you see the shadow image he left behind?  I can see where his legs were, it's very strange.  I don't know if this is "bird dust" or what but I found it fascinating.

One more "not so great" picture is of several hundred Pine Siskins eating something off the roof of our container.  I took this through the window and just caught the corner of the roof before they took off.

I know a lot of you know we spent four days on the Pacific coast in the Kalaloch/Ruby beach area and I swear I'm trying to get the pictures ready for posting.  It was an awesome trip, the weather couldn't have been better.  I'm trying to get the 1000 pics we took down to a reasonable album of 75 or so. 

Comments

[Aimee]

Very pretty snow photo, and I love the bird flying away. What a neat shot... it looks like a ghost!