A wet day round Penninghame pond way

Though it was a miserable day I needed to get out.

I thought I'd see frogs as it's more than a month since I first saw frog spawn.

Sadly, Penninghame pond area still has frog spawn.

I took lots of pictures anyway.

The video included is an interesting one.

I'll say no more, either enjoy the pictures or don't bother.

I was about to leave because the rain came on, but I noticed these chaffinches flying around a log pile.

It seems visitors have been keeping them fed with nuts, bird seed and bread.

This is a video compiled of 186 photographs taken in a high speed burst. Each image lasts one twelfth of a second.

The birds are mainly chaffinches at Penninghame Pond near Newton Stewart.

The musical clip is a section of Ragtime Annie played by Bill Wimberly & His Country Rhythm Boys in 1957.

A cold outlook

After the return of a chesty cough, I'd resolved to keep warm and stay out of the cold this week.

Yesterday Monday 21st January 2013 the falling snow tempted me to break that resolution, get my wellington boots on and head for Knockman Wood.

It snowed all the while I walked.

Passing the Neolithic chambered cairn

Heading uphill, the trees looked beautiful

 At the cairn on top of Knockman

The Lonesome Pine

I took a little bit of video

I didn't get enough video to fit the song I had in mind so I slowed some of it down.

The video's poor but the song's great.

Jesse Winchester's not a bad singer and a great songwriter.

Does anyone know if the wee loch in Knockman has a name ?

A touch of ice in a burn

Contrast

It snowed overnight and this morning Tuesday the 22nd of January I took a few more pictures at home.

My shed roof

One of my neighbours bird tables with a couple of male chaffinches aboard

The view south.

It's to remain cold till the weekend. Maybe I'll get some ice sculptures after all.