Boxing Day... Does that mean I can hide in a box until this things over?

Went out today.  Just to the local shopping area.  Out of our four supermarkets only one was open.  Paths outside my flat were muddy and slippy.

I took my camera with me but birds were flying too fast today.

Here are a couple from last week's.  From my living room window.

Robert you have a good way with that camera,honestly a talent, you frame the subject so well,also patience and knowing your subject matter works in reams, 

well done for adding colour to this place,

x()x

I'm lucky enough to live, overlooking a stream and woodlands.  These are from march 2016.  not very colourful but seasonal.

Good Fortune, and Five (long) things, now.
1 - I am (supposed to be) an Artist/Illustrator, and so I know good "Graffiti Art" when I see it. When, as is Posted, the "Art" is within a Frame (a door, an entire wall, an enclave) then it is likely especially commissioned (i.e. the Artist is Paid). I write this for persons perhaps unaware that such business exists....
2 - I am (supposedly) a little bit good at Photography, I am told. You, Mister Robert123 are as "eccentric" as I am... I know little about "Camera, lens, mm, exposure," etc... but I know how to do: Lighting, Point, Zoom, Focus, Anticipate, Frame... Click!
3 - I do not walk around with a "proper" Camera usually. If you are in London, and see an 'interesting' person whom covers their face upon sight of a Camera, then that is likely myself...!
4 - I live in London, and may relax by walking beside Rivers and along Old Father Thames. I am Photographed very much (hence my UserName)... And so Squirrels and even Herons are not uncommon sights to me. Yet I have never been able to snatch good sight of a Parakeet, for they fly fast, yet are noisy, yet alight where the glare of sunlight renders a photograph to be rather pointless, you see... and that is why I asked.
5 - Sometimes I am surprised by a Pied Wagtail. For instance: what they do, being upon a train station platform, is up to them and not for myself to know; yet they are fast and quite nervous, and so I have no good pictures of them. However Robins like to surprise me with a visit, and all are always very well mannered about it, I should add. (...!)
(Happy New Year anyway, of course.)

Good Fortune, and Five (long) things, now.
1 - I am (supposed to be) an Artist/Illustrator, and so I know good "Graffiti Art" when I see it. When, as is Posted, the "Art" is within a Frame (a door, an entire wall, an enclave) then it is likely especially commissioned (i.e. the Artist is Paid). I write this for persons perhaps unaware that such business exists....
2 - I am (supposedly) a little bit good at Photography, I am told. You, Mister Robert123 are as "eccentric" as I am... I know little about "Camera, lens, mm, exposure," etc... but I know how to do: Lighting, Point, Zoom, Focus, Anticipate, Frame... Click!
3 - I do not walk around with a "proper" Camera usually. If you are in London, and see an 'interesting' person whom covers their face upon sight of a Camera, then that is likely myself...!
4 - I live in London, and may relax by walking beside Rivers and along Old Father Thames. I am Photographed very much (hence my UserName)... And so Squirrels and even Herons are not uncommon sights to me. Yet I have never been able to snatch good sight of a Parakeet, for they fly fast, yet are noisy, yet alight where the glare of sunlight renders a photograph to be rather pointless, you see... and that is why I asked.
5 - Sometimes I am surprised by a Pied Wagtail. For instance: what they do, being upon a train station platform, is up to them and not for myself to know; yet they are fast and quite nervous, and so I have no good pictures of them. However Robins like to surprise me with a visit, and all are always very well mannered about it, I should add. (...!)
(Happy New Year anyway, of course.)