We had a scattering of snow on Friday, so around lunchtime I wrapped up and went out to see if there was any fun to be had.
One of the pleasures of a fresh covering of snow is the chance to lay down a trail of footprints, and to follow other people’s. (Unless that’s just me being childish!) Finding this bird print pattern in a quiet part of town was a small treat. Two or perhaps three visitors had left their traces on the pavement before me.
I wonder what the next by-passer must have thought to see this scene with my jumbled footprints layered on from stopping to take a picture, then skirting around it as I went on. I never thought to look back.
Shared for the One Word Sunday Challenge: Seasonal.
Susan Rushton 
Well, we don’t live so very far apart, but here’s one picture I simply couldn’t have taken this season. Not one flake here. Make the most of it!
I did! It didn’t last long.
Not just you, I love doing that too!
It’s good to keep the child alive.
I love seeing bird footprints in the snow! Around our home in the woods, we also have lots of prints of little scampering mammals.
That must be such fun to see… though bear sized ones might be more chastening.
Bears hibernate in the winter. 😉
It takes a blog, perhaps, to bring together people who are charmed by prints in the snow, particularly little lines like these. They look like a flock of very well choreographed birds in a tidy line. It also helps to have the keen-eyed photographer who is willing to look for fun in a snow scatter.
Thank you! I’m very lucky to be part of this nature-loving community here.
It’s fun to go out to play nature-detective with tiny footprints in the snow – and a very pleasing pattern too! 🙂
I wish I knew what they all are. The little skippy ones intrigue me.
I was hoping to spot where the badgers get into my garden but for some reason there was no snow along the boundary. It is fun after a deep fall of snow spotting how many animals have visited your garden.
Perhaps the badgers are magicians!
That is the most charming thing I’ve seen all day- I love it!!
I’m glad 🙂
Beautiful footprints. There’s something unutterably beautiful about them❤❤❤🐦🐦🐦
You seem to read the thought processes in the progression and something of the characters too.
Very much so ❤️
I find bird prints so charming (and take photos of them, too). It isn’t until after a snow that I see how many critters share my world. Humbling and inspiring!
We’re never alone for long if there’s snow.
You must have had more snow up there than we did down here, it was mainly sleet for a couple of hours and by late lunchtime had turned to rain. I love seeing animal footprints in the snow and i also like making my own where no-one else has been 🙂
It’s a way ‘to boldly go where no-one has gone before’, without needing too much boldness!
Wonderful wandering pattern.
I wish I had thought to inspect what had drawn the bird’s attention. Berries, no doubt.
What a great photo find.
I was looking for a rose bud, but this was even better.