There were plenty of pheasants around where we lived, but we rarely came across them. This guy, on the other hand, came across us. Only our cat managed to convince him to leave our backyard.
Reaching and clawing to a sky that is already closing up…
The sky through the trees of our nearby wood. The forest floor was blanketed in several feet of snow; it began snowing again soon after, and we almost lost the trail…