The storm's coming. You can sense it; the sky was apricot at sunset and the birds are both active and erratic. The Met Office's warning system has turned an interesting colour over East Anglia and I wouldn't be too surprised to be using my snow boots tomorrow.

The county seems encased in ice.



The eighteen acre lake on the university grounds has almost entirely frozen over.







The river is still running, although it's gathered sheets of ice along its more sluggish reaches. And one of those was the foraging grounds for a surprising visitor today - a grey wagtail



Further upstream, two tiny birds attracted my attention. A pair of treecreepers! One of them vanished in true treecreeper style, but the other foraged for insects in the bark.





Redwings are foraging too...



...with or without blackbirds as company!





But the dunnocks are singing



As are the chaffinches, between studying the world.


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This could be a cold weekend