I was not prepared for this winter. The rain we’re having is unreal. I think it’s rained heavily every day since October apart from one week when it was really cold. We’re used to wet winters with storms bringing big downpours but this is just relentless non-stop rain all the time. No chance of getting the camera out sadly.
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It’s been absolutely dreadful on this side of the Channel as well, even when it’s not raining or just lightly the cloud cover is so thick that any photo comes out a noisy mess even after post-processing.
But let’s look on the bright side, apparently we might have some sun on the 24th, maybe.
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Ooh! Something to help fill my wintry day. Do you have a sample (pre-processed) image file you might want to share with me? (Better yet, the original camera file?)
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What’s all that blue stuff in the photos? It looks like sky but isn’t dark grey 
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You can always visit the land of enchantment aka sunshine state in winter https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146090783
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Currently coping by getting excited to visit Azuay, Ecuador this summer for a volunteer program. Andean gulls, white-cheeked pintails, feral llamas, Andean condors, great thrushes, Andean ducks, hummingbirds, and more-- here I come! Now if only I could figure out a way to make the semester pass faster…
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Very envious… living in Cuenca was the best time of my life so far.
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I had a good insect-on-snow observation today. A wooly-bear caterpillar working its way very slowly across an inch of snow in my garden. I don’t know if a bird dropped it or if it had walked there on its own but I moved it to more suitable habitat.
https://uk.inaturalist.org/observations/146850308
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Many Arctiinae caterpillars are active on snow, a list of species is known for that in particular.
A couple of weeks ago, a friend texted me a photo of a slug moving across snow. It wasn’t a particularly warm day, either.
I came across this surprisingly nice nature piece on some of the natural joys of winter from the Positive News outlet that actually contains a lot of answers to my original question:
https://www.positive.news/environment/seven-ways-to-find-joy-outside-this-winter/
This has been a spider-ful winter. By focusing my attention indoors, I have found a few new species and learned more of how much I don’t know. Few examples:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147042133
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146238367
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145014932
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147553795
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147555243
Female and male Anyphaena:
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