Winter arrived last night in our yard with three inches of snow. I told my wife I wanted to photograph a red bird with the new snow. All day I hoped to catch a Pileated Woodpecker or Cardinal in a snow flocked pine. Not! Just a deciduous tree.
In addition I finally slowed these Snow Buntings in a short video I took last week by a factor of two. They move so fast, that slow motion was necessary. The buntings are down here in northern Minnesota from the Arctic. (video link for email subscribers).
I have never seen snow buntings. What a pretty bird. About the cardinal, I used to welcome our Ontario Canada co-workers to the “sunny south” when they visited NJ. I asked if they had a wet or dry cold. They aid it was “just cold” 🙂
Ha! How true. When it is -25F or -30F, it is just darn cold. Today’s low in Sax-Zim Bog was a balmy 12F.