Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: feathery

On a birding walk yesterday morning, 21 January 2013, at Griffith Woods, we saw some quite interesting ice crystals/frost. This was a branch that was lying in the creek. Will post a photo of a different frost/ice formation another day - a formation that I'd never seen before.

This rather beautiful and unusual (to us) frost/ice formation was found along the edge of the water at Griffith Woods on Monday, 21 January 2013. In some places, the crystals looked rather like a pile of feathers that had been tossed on to the water's edge - you can get an idea from the blurry foreground.

A rather messy photo, but I wanted it as a record of the feathery ice/frost crystals that were growing at the edge of a small creek in Griffith Woods natural area yesterday. There was a lot of vegetation growing beneath the surface of the open water, and an American Diipper was seen a few times here this week. Taken on 26 January 2013.

Yesterday, I was out for a walk, keeping an eye open for any birds. It was very quiet and slow, and I had to chuckle to myself when I caught sight of this thin ice formation on the creek - I was beginning to think that these frozen "feathers" might be the only feathers I was going to see that morning. However, a short distance further, and the highlight of the morning was seeing a teeny Northern Pygmy-owl (the size of a pop-can or a clenched fist)!

I need a good book on fungi! This one should be fairly easy to identify - famous last words! It's so pretty and delicate.