Thursday was cold and foggy with temperatures remaining below freezing all day. It gave us our coldest daily average temperature since that record breaking December of 2010. Yesterday’s daily average was -2.2°C (max 0.4°C, min -3.8 °C) the coldest since 22 December 2010 with -2.3°C (max 0.9°C, min -7.7°C).
These icicles formed on the string stretched across the pond as heron protection. A lovely bird but it does have a nasty habit of eating our pond fish if no protection is in place.
The birds made great use of the ice free patches of water in the pond to drink and bath from as it proved difficult to keep the bird bath ice free.
This redwing is a rare visitor to our garden. We only usually spot one when the weather is really bad. It didn't stay for long and we didn't see it make a return visit.
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The icicle photo at the top is really hypnotic. This week lots of hard frost in Northern Ireland. Burrr. No snow... yet!
ReplyDeleteGlad I didn't fall in the pond taking it
DeleteNice to see a variety of birds using the pond. I've never seen a redwing, he must make emergency visits if he's only seen when the weather's bad. It's good that the birds know where to find food and water. It's raining here now, I'm so glad as it was treacherous this morning with so much ice about.
ReplyDeleteAlways worried the birds finishing up in the water and drowning but it doesn't seem to happen. It's 12 months since we had a redwing in the garden. Just luck that we spotted it.
DeleteIt's raining here now and the misty, foggy freezing conditions have lifted.
You take some excellent photos and videos, so clear and near.
ReplyDeleteI follow Sue's blog too and it's great to see how different they both are but also similar.
Keep up the good work with the weather reporting, I don't have the time or the knowledge to do that, my limit is to read my max/min thermometer in the greenhouse.
We do sometimes need an editor's briefing to decide who will cover what on our blogs. I'm often accused of "stealing" photographs but I've survived so far.
ReplyDeleteI let him off when he steals my photos, Liz as he lets me use his videos.
DeleteGreat images, I agree. Nice video angle (will bear this in mind when I
ReplyDeletefinnish my pond. Envious of that Redwing capture :-)