From the freezing blast of full sun we’re now back to standard winter fare…gloomy gray days. Perhaps the only good thing is that as everyday passes we get around 1 minute extra sunlight per day. This lead me to sit on the cold bench in the garden, see what flew by and try to make an interesting image or two. I surprised myself with what I caught.

The prize of the day was the Reed Bunting (above). It is several years since I was aware we had buntings visiting the garden so their presence gave me a lift. Perhaps the most satisfying thing about this morning was that all these were captured in appalling light. I used my CR with the Sony 200 – 600mm lens. Many of the talking heads say this combination shouldn’t work. What do they know? To top it all they were all handheld. I have to say it was impressive to see the camera selecting the birds eye through thick cover.

before I went out my mood matched the cloud cover. Now I have a renewed bounce in my step.