There have been dark skies and driving rain overhead for weeks but today the sky was brighter. Still cloudy but at least the clouds were pale grey.
In a birch tree we planted 30 years ago the birds were queuing up waiting for a turn on our feeders. In our garden we mostly get finches and tits (by the way YankeeBoys British Tits are like Chickadees) and there they were silhouetted against the sky.
With FL in one hand and HT in the other I checked out the dim outlines of the birds set against the pale grey clouds. Through the HTs is was as if someone had shone a torchlight on the birds. Through the FLs blocks of colour and wingbars were visible but the HTs revealed more saturated colours and nuances of colour shading. Subtle changes in texture were discernable. Swapping back to the FLs was like putting a grey filter in the way: the silhouette-nature of the view became more apparent.
This holds out the hope of seeing more detail in birds flying against a bright sky.
Merry Christmas to all BF contributors without exception.
Lee
In a birch tree we planted 30 years ago the birds were queuing up waiting for a turn on our feeders. In our garden we mostly get finches and tits (by the way YankeeBoys British Tits are like Chickadees) and there they were silhouetted against the sky.
With FL in one hand and HT in the other I checked out the dim outlines of the birds set against the pale grey clouds. Through the HTs is was as if someone had shone a torchlight on the birds. Through the FLs blocks of colour and wingbars were visible but the HTs revealed more saturated colours and nuances of colour shading. Subtle changes in texture were discernable. Swapping back to the FLs was like putting a grey filter in the way: the silhouette-nature of the view became more apparent.
This holds out the hope of seeing more detail in birds flying against a bright sky.
Merry Christmas to all BF contributors without exception.
Lee
