Guess what boys and girls .......

it's snowing .......... again.

It's not that cold out so I can have a window open and take photos without freezing my goolies off. The wind is blowing from a NE direction so thats good too. Heres a couple so far. I like to give them plenty of time to feed without me disturbing them.

Cardinal

Dark-eyed Junco

Snow Bunting

About a quarter of a mile down the lane there were 12 of these little beauties yesterday along with a few Lapland Buntings. I would love to get Snow Bunting on my Yard Bird List. I'll spread some seed in the field opposite and see if I can entice some down here. It still counts if I can see a bird from the yard; it's my list, my rules.

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I used to go skiing in the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland. In March or April while the skiing was still good I used to see the Snow Buntings in their breeding plumage around the mountain tops or even lower down in the car park. I wish I had taken some photographs back then.

Snow Bunting

Snow Bunting

Little Green Heron Bad Hair Day

This juvenile Little Green Heron was having a bad hair day. I was working in York (York Pennsylvania before anyone gets excited) and beside the car park there was an overgrown retension pond where the Little Green Heron family was raised. I saw at least 3 young heronlets or whatever young herons are called.  One afternoon when I was leaving one of the juveniles was learning to hunt on his own and I just wound the window down and snapped away. The second picture was taken in June 2012 when I was down in Florida on a week long conference. Florida in June is just plain nasty. The heat and humidity is awful. I had to go out and buy more shirts as I was changing them 3 or 4 times a day when I got the opportunity to go out photographing.

Little Green Heron Juvenile

Little Green Heron

I think this is a juvenile too,  probably a few months older