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).