Winter is here!

It really doesn't feel like 12 months ago since I put the last post on about the migrating cranes, but it is, 2 weeks later than last year, this is the first chance I've had of taking a picture of them,  approximately 120+ birds in the 'V' formation for what is now an annual blog post, never the less, every year this has now become the signal that winter is here and consequently this morning we woke up to the first frost, not too serious temperature wise but it's due to drop further next week, time to pack up my shorts for another year and get the jeans on!!
This will not be the last time we see this spectacle, there are apparently 28,500 cranes at a lake east of Paris, Lac du Der, waiting to start their trip south to a warmer place for the winter!