"Red Skies In the Morning..."At The Vermilon River. A Post To SWF.

To finish the adage "... sailors take warning. Red skies at night sailor's delight. " Feel free to add your adaption to one of the apparently quite good, in the sense of accuracy, old adages about weather.These shots are sunrise photos, and did lead to poor weather. ALL PHOTOS ARE RESIZED,SO CLICK ONE TO ENLARGE AND WATCH THE SLIDE SHOW.

We went from the early warming to cooler with snow flurries today, to possibly snow on the weekend. But its still early for spring, and winter returns every so often to keep us honest.

What's amazing about this series is the brightness of the colours and the changes.

From the molten red to the gold below.

And from the gold to the blue.

These colour variations took very little time to occur, and left the day overcast.

 This is my artsy photo for the day. It's the sky reflected in the common room window of the apartment that we live in. Nice digs, eh? And of course we senior citizens deserve them.

The cooler weather did not impede the break up of the river ice. As well the River is in flood, we were unable to get to the rapids on the abandoned railway track. But now its clear why the track was abandoned. The scenes are all of the upper River and I'll use captions now.

Looking North.

Rocky Shoreline

Vermilon Wetland Still Mainly Frozen

The Big wetland is ice free.

I was really lucky to spot this Male Mallard in a small wetland.

The wetland is still frozen. I tried looking for his mate.

But as I approached she took off, joined shortly by him.

Male And Female Mallards In Flight.

These Geese landed up river setting off clouds of water.

Part of Spring is the arrival of the Red-winged Blackbirds.

Red-winged Blackbird.

 This guy is all caught up in the wind. The winds have been high also.

Common Grackle.

This is a male Downy Woodpecker. You can just make out the black spot in his white tail feather, and his beak, and body are smaller than the female Hairy Woodpecker shown below.

Female Hairy Woodpecker

Female Hairy Woodpecker.

The Song Sparrows were shot in the big wetland, and are, of course, spring arrivals. Soon the big wetland will be full of aquatic birds as  the River current will be too heavy with the spring flood.

Song Sparrow

Huegy, the Northern Crow.

Huegy,Making a Point.

Red Squirrel

Pussy Willows are a sure sigh of spring.

 A post to SWF @ http://skyley.blogspot.com/ , Camera Critters @ http://camera-critters.blogspot.com/ and Scenic Sunday @ http://scenicsunday.blogspot.com/