I've been working all over the New year (and still am!) and was a bit fed up with only watching the birds in my back garden, so after work yesterday morning I set of in the snow and -6 celsius to my local patch.

It was an absolutely beautiful morning, the sunrise made everything look orange'ish for a while and enhanced the colours, especially the breasts of Robins and Chaffinch's. The sky was a pale blue and it was a windless, crisp and bloody freezing morning Still, it could be...