Although the weather was a bit warmer yesterday (18 December), there was still plenty of ice in the frigid waters off of the shores of Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge. For many of us here in the United States, winter does not officially begin until this Sunday, the 21st of December, but we have already had two snow storms with measurable accumulation and some periods of sub-freezing temperatures.
With rain in the forecast for the following couple of days, I ventured out yesterday to my favorite local wildlife refuge with my camera, looking primarily for birds.I did not have a huge amount of success in capturing images of these birds, but it was enjoyable nonetheless to be outdoors in the relatively comfortable temperatures of a beautiful December day.
I was happy that I remembered to take some landscape style shots with my iPhone to document the day—when I am carrying around my camera with a long telephoto zoom lens, I often forget to take some wide-angle shots like these ones.
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