Baby, It’s (Majorly!) Cold Outside!
I took this photo just a little while ago. The winds are howling so loudly, our normally quiet house now sounds as though a freight train is running through it! It isn’t just a random sound, either, but a sustained drone that is hard to cover!
I realize this photo isn’t exactly “stellar”, as it appears a bit out of focus, but you can see my little Goldfinch friend is swollen like a little powder puff, trying to keep warm! Truth be told, I had my telephoto lens on, and with the branch bobbing up and down as it was, the little bird resembled a youngster enjoying an amusement park ride! It was tough trying to even focus!
Today’s temperature is supposed to be “about 20″ or about -6 on the Celsius scale. Add to that our 18 mph winds and it makes for a wicked wind chill! I did fill the bird feeder to overflowing a short time ago, but the poor little birds!
Ah, but it is a good day for humans to relax indoors, reflecting on the coming Christmas holiday and sipping hot tea or cocoa! Hmm…..perhaps I need to mix up a batch of cookies as well!
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Oh, I know just how that little bird feels!!! We just came back inside and it is brutal out there! The wind has just ripped all the tarps we had on the RV to shreds and we were out there trying to tie some pieces back together….I couldn’t wait for the dogs to finish their business and get back indoors!!! Yes, a good day to stay INSIDE and bake cookies and sip chocolate!
Poor baby! He looks so cold. Neither man nor beast is quite prepared for this cold blast just yet.
It’s a bone chiller when you can hear the freight train overhead. Your little birdie wouldn’t look so cold if he was in focus. Sometimes a picture just looks better a little out of focus.
He is a real cutie! The fact that even the still photo shows the movement of him shivering trying to keep warm shows how cold it really was!