First Snow of the Season

 This is the first snow of the season that amounts to something.  Fort Hill scenes.

Taughannock Falls for Thanksgiving

 Stopped by Taughannock Falls SP on my way down for a superb Thanksgiving dinner.  I agree with my nephew Thanksgiving should be once a week.

Since I couldn't exercise Grenville at the falls overlook, we stopped at the park area down below.  This would be the power plant supplying Ithaca NY which is just to my right a ways.

Blah!

The weather and time of year have made picture taking very difficult this past week.  It has been just BLAH.  These Mallards were swimming in the golf course pond.  So I shot them.

Males are out on this nice morning

 A Buck watches as his harem crosses the road. I think there were 4 Hinds.  I just pulled up to take Grenville for a walk when these guys walked across the road in front of us.  I grabbed the camera and shot through the windshield so not the greatest pictures.

 A Blue Jay

And a Cardinal Both noisy on this sunny morning.

Another one of the girls

The Does are out but no so much for the Bucks

A tranquil day ...

A  Tranquil day at the boat launch

Four does hiding out in plain site

The Mink tree

Poor pictures but it was great to actually see this guy.  It was dark and misting so I didn't have my big lens and this guy was up near the tree top.

Back to interesting stuff ... Raptors

 A Sharp-shinned Hawk watches for dinner to fly by.

A Red-tailed Hawk circles looking dinner to hop out in the open.

It went up like a house on fire ...

 It was a frosty, fridge morning 2 hours before daylight.  The call went out ... to set a house on fire.  The fire dept. had been setting fires in the house for training and now it was time to level it.

Frost in the morning

This is the second day we have had a good frost that has lasted for several hours past daylight

Muskrat

This guy was just laying in the water not moving much letting the water current bring stuff to him.

PICTURE 10,000

 This is snap 10,000 since 01 Jan 010.  Even I can not believe I have taken that many pix since Jan.  As you can see from this image they are not all great.  And you are thinking "Boy am I glad he didn't post them all on the blog"

This is picture 9999.  A Mallard family with the highly coloured male and the duller female.