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Slowly increasing the brightness of my lighting so not to spook the badgers.
I was lucky that the 2 babies came out for dinner last night 🦡🥰
Even luckier to get a decent photo with the low light, long exposure and 2x moving targets.
Baby badgers - badglings, badglets, buppies, bittens (?)

Whirlwinds of snow out there. There's now half a meter of snow on the deck, just from this morning.
Redpolls finding shelter under a bench behind a snowdrift. Few seeds for them: it's too windy, the seeds just blow away or get buried in the snow.
Photo taken through a window.

On a bit of a doom-favorite nostalgia trip, but with some always-present relevance:

"The Winter way is clear: Bonding music and lyrics to set a mood and convey their feelings toward this tumultuous era, in which we all live. They are echoes of reality, taking the negative aspects of a problem to generate a positive reaction. The enraged voice of the apocalypse, a soundtrack set to the onslaughter of a dark, cold, brutal world." (extract from the liner notes)

I've been feeding a family of badgers through the years.
Recently my trap cam caught 2 youngsters & the mum coming to the garden.
I braved the freezing night air to stand and watch last night, It was so amazing to see, only one turned up but I'll try again tonight, hopefully it'll be a full turn out
The LED worked well to see what's going on
#Wildlife #art #Photography #Forest #Wood #Wild #loch #scotland #winter #nature #PhonePic #badger #badgers #phonephotography #night #mountain #edinburgh

Last night, a friend organised a nighttime bike ride on the ice road to the neighbouring village of Dettah. It's about 6.5km across the frozen bay. It was quite slippery on the glare ice, even with studded tires, so we went at a leisurely pace and chatted away. When we got to Dettah, as if on cue, the #aurora erupted into a dancing, swirling riot of colour. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen, which I hope comes across in these low res. photos. We stood enrapt in our bike helmets, or lay back on the ice to save our craning necks until it settled down into a placid glow in the distance before biking back to town.
#yellowknife #nwt #northernlights #winter #BikeTooter #winterbiking

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I'm still walking about 10km/day, which I'm hoping to increase with the nicer weather. Pulling that off in the winter months in boots has been hard, so hard (i.e. painful) that I'm considering finding a good pair of cold weather running shoes for next winter. Pointers appreciated! #winter #running