The Heron’s are back!

Last year we watched while Great Blue Herons nested and had one youngster in a tree in the middle of the conservation wetland behind our new home. We noticed activity recently so today I took some photos, and confirmed that they are back nesting there again …

Here’s our view; the tree with nest is visible in the second rear panel from right (not the closer/bigger tree to it’s left); now, with my new high zoom camera, let’s get closer, and closer still … and finally at maximum zoom (50x optical, and cropped)! A quite amazing level of zoom, compared to the top view where you can hardly even see the nest:

I’m sure there will be more photos of the nest, over the next few months …

Christmas lights, 2014

It’s so much nicer to walk around and admire neighbors Christmas lights, without needing to wear coat, gloves … although the rain that started while I was taking pictures was a bit unwelcome! Anyway, here is our house for Christmas (decorated by Margaret while I was in England) and an assortment of neighbors homes: