I have been collecting images for a few days now. As I went outside with my camera yesterday evening the following photos came in close succession before the sun went down.
The evenings here are alive with wildlife of all kinds. I’ve been trying to get a photo of the fox that has decided to come live with us but so far have been unsuccessful. It’s been very curious of me and Mongrel. Unlike most of them that just run away this one stays and observes us.
It gets so cold here with the blowing wind that I can only take a few photos before I have to put my hands back in my pocket where I have hand warmers running full blast.
As you can see from the photo above amateur radio is assisting the local wildlife. The hawk is atop one of my telephone poles with my 80-meter antenna just below.
I took several pictures of geese flying around. Every evening they seem to be looking for a place to spend the night near some body of water. You’d think they would all be sort of going in the same direction but they are going in all directions and at all altitudes but in groups about this size, all of them in the V formation. I liked the contrast of them against the sky.
Interesting contrast of a single goose trying to catch up with it’s flock and the jetliner going in the opposite direction.
Mongrel and I still go out on our walks but it’s been so, so cold that we haven’t been goofing around like we normally do. The first few minutes we are out, as indicated here with Mongrel on the stump, are so uncomfortable I’m surprised we don’t just run back inside.
On top of it being bitter cold the winds are blowing 15+ miles an hour. I don’t know what the wind chill is and I’ll keep this G rated in trying to describe it. But it is crazy cold.
The pond (above) is frozen solid. When we were out there exploring it made a popping sound that was so loud that it sounded like a gun going off right next to us. We both jumped!
This morning when I woke up and looked outside the frost was so think that I didn’t think I had seen it like that before. It was definitely a “hard” frost. It had the appearance of snow in the sunshine. The weather last night was uber-clear with a very light wind.
But we did manage to get in a tree climb in spite of the weather. For whatever reason Mongrel loves the game of “cat and mouse”. We play this game both inside and out, typically in the evenings. He will run and hide and I’ll have to go find him. Then I go and hide and he’ll find me. Often when I am looking for him (unsuccessfully) I’ll get ambushed from behind. I’ve never had a cat that plays like this one. Normally I’m tacitly ignored.