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Wow! No wonder they call our North East, "New England"

:thumbsup: Thanks for sharing those pics, Derek - just lovely. I see Spring is still hiding, there as well as here - doesn't Spring know how to read a calendar?! :giggle: We're a week into it and still having freezing nights. Hubby did get to ride his Harley to work a couple of warm-ish days, but oh those nights coming home were bone-chilling! :biker::cold: That's OK though, I had a fire going in the woodstove and warmed his toes right up!

My daffodils are bloomimg through the frosty temps though :flowerchild: - and the robins have returned seeking yard-worms :birds:- they have stalwart little souls, don't they? :D
:giverose::giverose::giverose:

Hi Willa,
The daffs in our garden are not properly out yet. But the birds think spring is just round the corner and are singing again. Yes, I remember your Robins from visiting Florida, our Robin stays through the winter and is a lot smaller bird. Here's a rather poor picture I took near the house.



I took the two top picts from the garden a couple of weeks ago when we had some March snow and other ones are of the Lake District near our home. They were taken in the winter on an occasion when the snow retreated up the hills. We have had quite a hard winter for here in the UK, the worst for thirty years and perhaps almost fifty years over the border in Scotland. Now the weather men are promising snow again next week. It can alternate between warmish and cold here till the middle of May and the Ash trees don't really come into leaf until June.

A brave man your husband, driving a motorbike in winter..I remember it well, although it was almost fifty years ago.
WCL
Derek

Well, i agree with the thoughts of the (departed) Chicago Tribune columnist, Mike Royko: "They need to keep sending us pictures of snow scenes, just to remind us of how bad things can get!"

It's 78F here right now and sunny, with a nice breeze.

Hi all,
One taken today, a better day after poor weather for several days.

BTW I can't stand the heat, Jim!

We caught the edge of a snow storm that dumped over two feet of snow in the Scottish highlands with drifts that stopped trains.

Spring is just round the corner.

Derek,

That is a beautiful view you have.

As a small child I grew up in Scotland.

I lived in a very small fishing village called Burghead on the north coast near another town called Lossiemouth.

Some pics here:

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/bu...index.html

Scotland is a very beautiful place.

My father was a mechanical and electronic articifer who repaired Fleet Air Arm Jets at the RAF airfield in Lossiemouth for the British Navy.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/raflossiemouth

I was born however, on a small island in the mediteranean called Malta.

When my father was drafted to the RAF airfield there not long after WWII.

I now live in Canada.

The weather here today is a perfect 22c.

We normally get about 3 to 4 feet of snow.

This winter we had about 6 inches.

My modest home overlooks a river valley and I can see for about 9 kilometers.

I will try and find some photos.

In Christ

abe

Hi Abe,
I can see the Southern Uplands of Scotland from where I live.
I know of Burghead and was on the north coast near Lossiemouth last summer. We went to the mouth of the Spey river, birding.

The mountain in the picture is Skiddaw, in the English Lake District. The Lake is called Bassenthwaite to which the Ospreys came home to breed from Africa today.

I look forward to your pictures Abe.
Peace to you

In Christ
Derek

Derek,

Searched my hard drive for some pics I took last fall when the maple trees were covered in brilliant red.

Have not found them yet.

My daughters camera was in my office so took a photo through the window just now.

It's raining and the trees are just starting to bud.

There is a great trout river behind the trees in the foreground.

The Credit River.

It also gets runs of salmon and steelhead trout in the fall.

Short video of a salmon here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFewkMqvCYg

When I was younger I used to go fishing there at least once a week.

We have plenty of Canada geese close by and in recent years a few bald eagles.

I keep my cat indoors now!

Last spring I had a flock of wild turkeys in my back yard.

We also see plenty of turkey vultures.

and canaries.

Last summer there was a very beautiful bird nesting in a tree by my driveway. I have no idea what it is. If it comes back this year I'll try and get some photo's. Maybe you can identify.


Here is the pic.

Hi Abe,
Thanks for that, it is really interesting hearing about Canada's wildlife and seeing pictures.

I've birded Florida, Texas and California, so I've seen quite a few of your birds that move south in winter.
blessings to you
Derek

Here is some Canadian Wildlife that you don't want to mess with:

Hi Abe,
The Grizzly is quite a substantial animal and man is a puny creature without weapons.

In the 90's I went on a hospital liner accelerator course to California.

It was normal for me to go birding in my spare time, however, this time it was in the Rockies the middle weekend. One evening I strolled up the hill above the Mariposa Grove of giant redwoods. There I merrily roamed with nobody about, like a Brit in an English park, right up into the forest above the grove to the top of the hill, coming down in the late evening with the car park empty.

In other parts of Yosemite I did the same sort of thing....it was just a case of an innocent abroad!

Only later I discovered there were Grizzlys about. :)