The local fishing club stops fishing at the end of this month and if my old back allows me I intended to fish the allowed once per week for the next two and a bit weeks. Today we woke up to find a heavy frost and overnight temperature down to minus two and a half C, meaning that the fish will be just sitting on the bottom of the lochan not wanting to move or eat, so I have just got to hope that the temperature does not stay this low for long, or I might have fished our club waters for the last time this season.
16th.
I guess I should clear my garage and start putting the car away to stop my windscreen looking like this.
I guess the high voltage cable is a bit warmer that sitting in the trees for the Pidgeon and Collar Doves.
20th.
Well we have survived (so far) Storm Babet though my afternoon table tennis session yesterday was a no no for me as the A9 was blocked with a tree down over both carriageways so I had to turn back. When I was stopping cars from going up the slipway a half inch diameter twig came through the car window and struck my arm that was when I knew I should not have ventured out. What it has done is to encourage birds into our garden and eat more than normal including flocks of Redwings, though as you will see below they are hiding from my lens with the exception of the one I captured through the double glazing on the conifers.
Even the Wren was sheltering from the wind.
The hawthorn tree is where the Redwings are eating but when the Sparrowhawk comes a calling every bird in the garden goes into the thicket of the tree as shown in the three shots above. In fact in the dense conifer below the birds was where the Sparrowhawk was perched, fully frustrated that there would be know way he could capture any of these birds. Knowing this he did not move until the Red Squirrel came crashing through the conifer and he was off.
23rd.
Started this blog with the heading “getting colder”, overnight we dropped to minus five C and I took the shots below at minus three at ten this morning when it was still minus three. Love the effect it has on these frosty shots.
30th.
Walked down to the village today along the River Tilt, a beautiful in the sunshine and not to cold, the colours were unbelievable.
Those of you who watched the recent series called Annika, about a police officer in the water section, may remember a murder by a sluice gate on a river. That sluice gate is a third of the way in this shot in the middle, lots of the filming was around the village.
The river from off the road bridge.
This image suits my sense of humour, Not Mush-room for the Oak sapling to grow here.
31st
I started this blog showing how cold it was, well overnight on the last day of this blog it went even colder overnight temperature of minus six C . Still haven’t put the car away yet.
A couple more shots from this morning.
November tomorrow, going to Enchanted Forest tonight so the new blog will have shots from that, if they turn out better than the first lot I took at the beginning of the month on press night.