Filtered

Argh, yet another Blue Screen of Death when I was adding the description to this image. I tend to get too many of these.

This photo came out very blurry, so it was a case of either deleting it or adding a filter in post processing. Obviously, I chose the latter.

On 3 January 2017, on the spur of the moment, I decided to drive SE of the city and see if I could find a Snowy Owl or possibly even a Short-eared Owl. The temperature was -11C, windchill -20C. The sun was shining, which makes all the difference.

I had no idea what the winter roads would be like and quickly found out that on the main highway south, there was enough snow left on the road, for much of the drive, to hide the lines showing the different lanes - something that I never like. Once I reached the area I wanted to start looking, each side road looked too snow-covered for my liking. Not the most rewarding of drives, but at least I got out for a while.