Evening Grosbeak
We were excited to spot a pair of Evening Grosbeaks in our back yard and not wanting to scare them away I opened a window and was able to take a few shots. This is larger than I'd prefer to post the photo but in the haste I never thought to reduce the zoom on the camera and the bird sitting only a few feet away. Interestingly, the weather was misting rain and cloudy but the photo was taken at 100 iso? I always have the camera set to 'auto iso' which in those conditions would likely have read 3200 or so. Also the photos on the camera monitor were totally black so this was lightened using a large adjustment in post editing exposure compensation. After adjusting the camera setting it worked again but the blue jays had by then bothered the grosbeaks enough that they left. We did see them again briefly yesterday so hopefully they will visit on a sunny day.
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Evening Grosbeak
We were excited to spot a pair of Evening Grosbeaks in our back yard and not wanting to scare them away I opened a window and was able to take a few shots. This is larger than I'd prefer to post the photo but in the haste I never thought to reduce the zoom on the camera and the bird sitting only a few feet away. Interestingly, the weather was misting rain and cloudy but the photo was taken at 100 iso? I always have the camera set to 'auto iso' which in those conditions would likely have read 3200 or so. Also the photos on the camera monitor were totally black so this was lightened using a large adjustment in post editing exposure compensation. After adjusting the camera setting it worked again but the blue jays had by then bothered the grosbeaks enough that they left. We did see them again briefly yesterday so hopefully they will visit on a sunny day.
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