It’s the third or fourth day today of a mid-week “deep freeze” here in Erie County, Pennsylvania, with snowy conditions and temps around -9 degrees C. In bird news, the PI Bay entrance channel between North Pier and South Pier re-froze as of yesterday; still lots of duck activity in flight between open pockets of water @ outer Lake Erie and unfrozen portions of outer Misery Bay. More South Pier/duck pictures forthcoming, but here’s the final installment of snowy photography from this past Saturday at Presque Isle State Park, with a brief/cold stop at Thompson Bay/ Beach 11:
Shot above (+ similar shot at top of post) is from Beach 11, looking east-ish towards outer Thompson Bay (foreground) + Gull Point (horizon). The tree line is ‘inner’ Gull Point, with outer Gull Point (mud flats, dunes, observation platforms, etc.) on the right horizon and mostly obscured by snow.