First Snow

"What Happened?"  asks the American goldfinch.  "It's all white in my woods."  Northern Illinois experienced the first snow of the season, and it is more than the usual first dusting of snow which melts on contact.

Covered the camera and lens with a nylon jacket to keep falling snow and slushy snow glops falling from trees off the equipment.  With reduced light and contrast found it more difficult to find the subject in the viewfinder, and the camera had a tougher time focusing. Some of the time the camera focused on falling snow not birds.

Tried mightily for cardinal and red-bellied woodpecker photos, and hope for better results in the near future.  Saw a bird with a very large wingspan fly away; this was likely a bald eagle.  Juncos were everywhere.