Heron standing, as they often do, balanced on one leg. It was keeping a steady watch over the then ice water of the West Park boating lake.
Footprints in light snow (squirrel?)
Taken only a few yards from the pictures in the previous post, this image shows footprints from a set which were also leading to the shore of the frozen West Park lake. Possibly made by one of the resident squirrels, but this pair cayght my eye because they looked like they had been made by impossibly tiny human feet.
Magpie / icy lake
One of West Park’s many magpies takes the route it often uses to walk to the lake for a drink of water or a quick bathe. When it gets to the edge, it pauses, frustrated by the ice.
Boating lake – ice, snow
The West Park boating lake during the cold spell in the middle of the month – most of the surface covered in ice, and the ground leading up to the bandstand with a thin coat of the snow which had fallen overnight.
Greylags swimmimg by, icy lake
Three greylag geese swimming, just by the margin of the ice, on West Park lake. As they passed, first the lead bird, then all three stared at me.
Ice landscapes
Uneven surface of the ice on West Park lake. I guess that some of the birds swam in these areas when the ice was beginning tom form, breaking it up. As it got colder, these fragments were (literally) frozen in place, leaving abstract landscape patterns in the surface.