It's snowing!!

[Julia]

As you have probably heard on the news parts of the UK, including the home of DPNow, has been hit by the heavest snow fall for 13 years.

Great opportunity for photos - so get those cameras, wellies and gloves out and let's see how beautiful it is out there.

[Ian]

Re: It's snowing!!

As you have probably heard on the news parts of the UK, including the home of DPNow, has been hit by the heavest snow fall for 13 years.

Great opportunity for photos - so get those cameras, wellies and gloves out and let's see how beautiful it is out there.

Taken from warmth of the kitchen (window temporarily opened!)

Taken with an Olympus SP-565 UZ hand held, 1/160th sec, f/4.5, ISO 125, 520mm (equivalent) focal length.

[Ian]

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All my DSLR gear is at the office! I have the Oly SP-565 bridge camera here, but that's about it

The office is a 20 minute walk, on a good day, from home, and it's not really possible to drive at the moment. But I will venture out after lunch to get a DSLR and somes lenses...

Ian

[Pol]

Re: It's snowing!!

As you have probably heard on the news parts of the UK, including the home of DPNow, has been hit by the heavest snow fall for 13 years.

Great opportunity for photos - so get those cameras, wellies and gloves out and let's see how beautiful it is out there.

I'm not going out in that! It's still falling thick and fast!

I braved a north facing, opened patio door though so here's a shot of a grateful squirrel knocking it back at the de-iced, freshly filled trough.




Pol

[Julia]

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Haven't taken many photos recently and a little out of practice not to mention my usual camera is at the office

[Ian]

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I'm not going out in that! It's still falling thick and fast!

I braved a north facing, opened patio door though so here's a shot of a grateful squirrel knocking it back at the de-iced, freshly filled trough.


Pol

Great capture, Pol - I really like it

We get squirrels from time to time, but for various reasons all the big trees (mainly sycamores) in our garden have gone (A couple because of redevelopment of the end of our garden and a couple of others because they literally fell down!), so we don't see squirrels as often as we used to, though we do have a mature weeping willow in the middle of the garden, with a couple of large evergreens.

My attempts at attracting birds haven't been very successful, despite several feeders hung from the willow, so I think we will add a bird table at some point.

As I write, a magpie has arrived to pick on a rather old lamb shoulder bone that is also hanging from the tree!

Ian

[Ian]

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Great capture, Pol - I really like it

We get squirrels from time to time, but for various reasons all the big trees (mainly sycamores) in our garden have gone (A couple because of redevelopment of the end of our garden and a couple of others because they literally fell down!), so we don't see squirrels as often as we used to, though we do have a mature weeping willow in the middle of the garden, with a couple of large evergreens.

My attempts at attracting birds haven't been very successful, despite several feeders hung from the willow, so I think we will add a bird table at some point.

As I write, a magpie has arrived to pick on a rather old lamb shoulder bone that is also hanging from the tree!

Ian

Here's a rather poor snap of Mr/Mrs Magpie with his/her lamb bone, taken through the patio doors this time (didn't want to scare magpie):

Ian

[Pol]

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Great capture, Pol - I really like it

We get squirrels from time to time, but for various reasons all the big trees (mainly sycamores) in our garden have gone (A couple because of redevelopment of the end of our garden and a couple of others because they literally fell down!), so we don't see squirrels as often as we used to, though we do have a mature weeping willow in the middle of the garden, with a couple of large evergreens.

My attempts at attracting birds haven't been very successful, despite several feeders hung from the willow, so I think we will add a bird table at some point.

As I write, a magpie has arrived to pick on a rather old lamb shoulder bone that is also hanging from the tree!

Ian

We seem to be getting a lot of Magpies atm too. They tend to stay high in a Sycamore though, very rarely come down to the ground.

You might find lots of birds swooping in if you put fresh water out for them - maybe even squirrels too. The wildlife gets very thirsty in snow and icy weather because they have difficulty finding unfrozen water anywhere - no puddles, ponds etc for them to drink from. It's always amazing to watch them fly down from all directions when David goes out to refill the water baths and driniking dishes. There's one blackbird and a Robin that actually wait for him some morning - waiting for their sultanas and fresh water.

Foxes also like to find fresh water and Sultanas (or other food). The foxes have dug themselves an entrance under a fence - so they an always get into our back garden. If the entrance gets blocked they just dig it out again. They rarely visit in the daytime though they trigger the security lights on/off throught the nights. I do so love the foxes!

Pol

[Ian]

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We seem to be getting a lot of Magpies atm too. They tend to stay high in a Sycamore though, very rarely come down to the ground.

You might find lots of birds swooping in if you put fresh water out for them - maybe even squirrels too. The wildlife gets very thirsty in snow and icy weather because they have difficulty finding unfrozen water anywhere - no puddles, ponds etc for them to drink from. It's always amazing to watch them fly down from all directions when David goes out to refill the water baths and driniking dishes. There's one blackbird and a Robin that actually wait for him some morning - waiting for their sultanas and fresh water.

Foxes also like to find fresh water and Sultanas (or other food). The foxes have dug themselves an entrance under a fence - so they an always get into our back garden. If the entrance gets blocked they just dig it out again. They rarely visit in the daytime though they trigger the security lights on/off throught the nights. I do so love the foxes!

Pol

The lamb bone in the tree has been there about three weeks and hasn't been touched, but today's weather has reminded the magpie of the location (we regularly put old roast bones in the tree).

Good point about the water!

Ian

[Ian]

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All my DSLR gear is at the office! I have the Oly SP-565 bridge camera here, but that's about it

The office is a 20 minute walk, on a good day, from home, and it's not really possible to drive at the moment. But I will venture out after lunch to get a DSLR and somes lenses...

Ian

The snow is coming down quite thickly again, but I'm just about to venture out on foot to the office

See later (hopefully!)

Ian

[Pol]

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Two more shots from the garden. I won't be sitting out on the bench today!





Pol

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Roger

[Ian]

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When I first saw this it was simply sat alone in the middle of the road. By the time I'd got the camera sorted, someone was trying to get it out of the way.

By one of the bridges over the Grand Union Canal at Apsley.

Ian

[peter]

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We even had snow over here YES the real stuff not just the odd flake but proper snow. Guess who still had to go to work and missed most of it.I went for a walk after work and have not really had a chance to see if I have anything worth putting up yet. If I do I will post it here later.

[Patrick]

Re: It's snowing!!

As you have probably heard on the news parts of the UK, including the home of DPNow, has been hit by the heavest snow fall for 13 years.

Great opportunity for photos - so get those cameras, wellies and gloves out and let's see how beautiful it is out there.

Hi all

Here is the first I my contribution to the snow theme.

I have taken the snowy weather as an opportunity to test out my new Canon G10. I was going to by the Panasonic Lumix LX3 but the greater zoom range of the Canon lens won the day.

Patrick