Mountain Spring III

'Nother one of these.

Mountain Spring

Hooded Mergansers

This shot is from last winter. This year's weather is so mild we haven't had much lake ice -- or many wintering birds.

Common Mallards

Sticking with winter bird shots here. It's snowing out, the lake remains frozen over and we're getting 6-10" more snow tomorrow. %#^&! On the bright side, two Common Loons stopped by yesterday and a pair of Wood Ducks came by this morning. They know something the weatherman does not.

Twilight Geese

Menagerie

Three Hooded Mergansers and a Ring-necked Duck. Large here.

Canada Geese

They're baaa-aaack!

Bald Eagle

Kite Tail

Freeform

Icicles Past

We'll hit 60 degrees here today for the first time in probably five months. So this one's for old time's sake.

Icicles

Wonderland

Icy Crucible

I entered this shot of ice refreezing on my lake last month to a JPG Magazine (or now I guess it's JPG website) photo challenge on "Frozen." I didn't win. The winning entries are here. I think maybe the focus is a bit soft in parts of my image, and it doesn't provide any scale or even any explanation of what exactly the image is. You can only enter one image per challenge or I'd have run "Klee Ice I" as well. Oh, well, you can't win 'em all.

Floe

Klee Ice II

This is a leftover from last year at this time, but I'm clearing the decks in hope of a similar opportunity in the next few days. "Klee Ice I" is here.

Klee Ice I