"In spring [not only] a young man's fancy lightly turns to love" 2013-03-21 Welcome to spring! Seen yesterday along one of the arms of the Danube, in the national park.

"I hope the water isn't cold" 2013-03-19 I *told* you I would be posting heron pictures. Here is another. With a laughing cormorant in the background. Update: Not a GBH (Great Blues are only west of the Atlantic) but a GH (Grey Heron - usual in Europe). In a picture without scale (like this one), they are easy to confuse. The GH is a lot smaller.

Towards the Sun 2013-03-18 A Mallard duck rises from the waters of an arm of the Danube and is hit by the sun,. Many thanks for the comment on the cold heron. Still cold, still windy. The next two days are predicted to be balmy, then back to snow. Hard on the birds (and the humans)