It may not look like that to you but it means a lot here. The ice on the creek is breaking up, it’s above freezing (just), there is a strong westerly wind blowing and the ice is being broken up by the incoming tide.
As the ice retreats it leaves behind a lot of food for hungry scavengers, dead fish released from the broken ice are snapped up by a variety of waiting birds. Here’s a big guy that has taken refuge in a tree near the house to eat his lunch.
He’s pretty close as I took the picture from the bedroom window. Here’s one blown up a bit.
OK, fun’s over, back to the income taxes.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Wow, LW.
It’s not quite what I would describe as signs of spring but then we don’t have the same harsh winters, usually.
Great photographs.
Is that a “baldie”?
Hello Ara: Well one has to take some comfort from even the smallest signs of progress, otherwise “Cabin Fever” becomes a reality.
Ara: Yes we have two or three families of Bald Eagles on the creek, and a few Golden Eagles too, surprising to me, it’s not exactly wilderness here.
OMG!!! As if the luscious view of the water wasn’t enough, you include a pic of a Bald Eagle!!!
Wow and thrice wow. We have buzzards. Still very impressive if one does a low fly-by! 🙂
Janh: Here’s my cluttered work corner, it’s easy to take the pics, just pick up the camera and blast away, it’s not easy to get work done, I spend most of my time looking out the window.
I can easily understand why you may be a bit distracted, LW.
Now about those taxes. 😉
Ara: Yes, creative writing time again.
Saw a red Robin in our garden the other day and thought that pretty cool, but an Eagle. Wow. That trumps the lot, great pics BTW.
LW – By those shots of the lake and the eagle, I deduce you also steal secret US military helicopters to fly on special missions, play classical double bass on the jetty outside the log cabin for said eagle, always get your latest squeeze murdered and star in a typically naff ’80s American ‘thriller’ series called Airwolf (the title was the best bit). You, sir, are Stringfellow Hawke and I claim my £5.
OZ
Lots of bald headed eagles these days all over the place since they became protected species.
definitely lots more of them than there used to be all over the place.
We rarely go into town without seeing half a dozen or so lounging about and generally have a fly by for vole hunting down the creek.
I like the allusion to the ‘creative writing’, how very true. I don’t know about you LW, but with assets both sides it takes us bloody weeks to concoct!
Lovely pictures.
OZ: That there lake is a creek but three out of four otherwise (I play the violin) and it used to be Lobby Ludd and 10/- from the Daily Herald when I was there.
CO: Yes, the bald eagles don’t look quite so regal when you see them squatting on road killed Opossums on the side of the highway.
Be grateful for small mercies, I spent ten years in Canada so I’m still dealing with UK, Canadian and US leeches.
No, no no. A creek is a stream and something a ten-year-old can jump over in his wellies. That there is a lake in proper money and you still owe me a fiver (index linked). 🙂
OZ
LOL at Lobby Ludd. Someone had to explain that one to me – he was an old Daily Herald reporter actually! Wonderful guy. A proper ex-Fleet Street boozer with fabulous anecdotes honed over many thousands of hours propping up bars.
Adore that study, LW. I’d have my Zeiss binocs, maybe a telescope and the Canon with a couple of useful lenses decorating those windowsills. I’d probably do some work too. Just a bit…. 🙂
LW Oh God the Canadian tax men!!!
Have they had your foreskin yet? Your hair or your teeth?
CO: Alas, all three, 1987, 1988 and 1989.
OZ – very amusing Airwolf reference – I shall be humming the theme tune all day now!
LW – beautiful pics – all I can see from my window is grey sky and a starling, but that’s England for you!
Hello Cuprum426 and welcome to the Chariot from 50% of the Yank contingent.
In case you have forgotten it was mostly ICE out there yesterday, and it has frozen over again during the night. I think I saw Scott (or was it Shackelton) trudging past towards the South early this morning.