Winter Watch 2010

Winter is now upon us all and the snow is falling again. Autumn has come and gone so now it's time for all our beautiful Winter photo's.
Here you can place all your winter scenes, winter flowers, pets having fun in the winter snow or on winter walks or cats by the fireside and our birds at their feeders.
Lets make this thread a cheery winter thread to give us all a smile in this chilly winter.

littlewid-x-

Great idea LW, i look forward to the pics

TTMx

Ok Guys here's a few Pics I took today






Plus a funny one



WS

Love the scenic ones WS but soooooooo love the last one....thats just given me a right giggle being unwell hasn't dampened your humour

littlewid-x-

brilliant pictures xx

Lovely pics WS! I need to find the battery pack of our camera. We have some brill tracks in the snow from Jet. Will have to try and get them to post.

SM

Hope you find your battery pack SM, would love to see little jets adventure tracks

Thanks Guys
I thought Jet tracks were in the Sky SM
WS

WS

Beautiful pics, i love them all, you really are getting an early blast, still raining over here!!

TTMx

these pictures are of a small wooden spinney bout 100yrds from my flat
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Great photos PPH - I bet you get lots of wildlife visitors there and plenty of birds.

Lai

lots of birds in the trees and I have spotted a fox wandering around

Don't those pics look lovely with the snow and the sunshine, really nice PPH and a great place for wildlife to hang out.
We have quite a lot of snow here today that arrived overnight and we are expected to have about 20cm overnight tonight. It's too dark for pics now but hopefully tomorrow I will be able to get a few to post.

littlewid-x-

Great photos PPH and WS.

WS Jets tracks are like those in the sky. He does not act like a cat in the snow, he goes nut. The tracks are actually skid marks where he runs, stops and spins. Or better still he loves chasing snowballs but goes crazy cause when they land in the snow they disappear.

SM

Lovely photos PPH, its really nice to have somewhere so close by thats a little oasis for wildlife. SM that sounds just like our Misty when she was a bit younger. She really went mad when the snowball disappeared
WS

Last year I posted pics of my walk around the village with the dogs in the snow, so this year I took Nero down into the village and got a few snaps. I had to walk where the snow was the shallowist otherwise Nero would have disappeared in it, so this is our not so snowy parts of the village from this morning.
This is a little alleyway we walk through

One way in and out, it's up a hill and that road is a sheet of ice from where they have cleared it

The village pub.....you'd get a damp bum on those seats

A view of the village church from one of the little lanes

Church on the right and library on the left. That road is a hill as well and just sheer ice, I saw a few silly peeps trying to drive up there this morning.....they just kept sliding backwards

The trees by the side of the church

Dont think anyone will be parking in the church car park today

The centre of the village

The village postbox looks rather christmassy

The last of the Autumn Leaves with the Winter Snow

Not a very good shot but it's a berry tree with no leaves left, Nero was tugging me and I couldn't focus the camera very well.

Thats probably bored you enough, so I will post a few of round my house a little later.
littlewid-x-

they all look lovely

rather you than me walking around in the snow

What beautiful photos Littlewid - it all looks so beautiful there in the snow.

Thanks for taking your camera out with you.

Lai

I remember driving through there when we were down with you, but it didnt look like that. It is beautiful in the snow!

SM

What a lovely Village LW. The snow is a pain I know ,but it does make places like yours look even more wonderful. Thanks for letting us join you on your walk
WS

Although the snow has gone for most of us now I thought i would post a few more of just outside my house and a couple in the back garden.
This was the view from my bedroom window

My little Berry Bush

My little garden

This tree is almost obliterated by the snow, it has beautiful blue flowers on in the summer

Anyone want to sit down


Now it's all gone.
littlewid-x-

That was a huge amount of snow Littlewid - but it did look absolutely lovely. Thanks for sharing all your photos, what a great place you live in.

It's amazing how quickly it all goes

Lai

really bad picture but this is one of about 4 long tailed tits that wander around the car park to my flats. unfortunatly he was to fast for me as he was only about 3ft away when I got my phone out to take a picture ]

Wow you had a lot more snow than we did LW. Ours came in dollops a couple of inches at a time where as yours looks as though it arrived all together. Wonderful pics, well it looks lovely on the screen, but not nice to have to cope with.

PPH I think the Bird you have captured on your Phone is a Pied Wagtail, not a Long Tailed Tit. It's unusual for Tits to walk on the Road, but Wagtails do, they have a quick almost running walk. You did well to get a Picture at all. There are Pics of the Pied Wagtail, and the Long Tailed Tis on my Meet the Birds post. So if you have a look, you might be able to tell which one it is
WS