#dusk

psych@diasp.org

The Birds

It sure felt like a scene from Hitchcock's film as the air grew thick with birds swooping down to line the branches of a big old tree. Crows. They sure make a racket like the egrets at the nearby rookery. This is right on the Gulf of Mexico, SW FL.

Quite a cacophony. (See 14 sec video)
https://youtu.be/kV50-DqMCWg

Even with all the squawking, the sound of a lone mourning dove is unmistakeable.

More nature vids on YouTube (and a few, yes, on NoGAFA Peertube)...

And my online rookery full of bird photography is @ http://www.fenichel.com/birds

#birds #photography #myphoto #crows #MyVideo #dusk #cacophony #FL #dusk #Fenfotos

mkwadee@diasp.eu

A little after #sunset and the #NewMoon at #dusk is approaching the #western #horizon, with #Earthshine illuminating the "dark" side. There's also #Venus there and, if you look very closely, you can also see #Saturn to the bottom right of the #planet. Add in a wisp of #cloud, an #aeroplane and its #contrail in the mid distance, #trees and a #house nearby and finish it off with a #sky turning from smoothly from deep #orange to a dark #blue and you end up with rather a nice collage. I used a #tripod to get a good #photograph here.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Winter #Moon

mkwadee@diasp.eu

If you take an #overexposed #photograph of the #Moon, you may often notice a dark #halo around its #perimeter. This #evening's #Picture was taken at #dusk and the #sky was still quite light despite the deep blue it looks here with this exposure. It was taken almost exactly 36 hours before the next #FullMoon.
Dark halo around bright Moon

Here is a much faster #exposure where the sky appears black. This one is cropped.
Cropped image of Moon

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #BackyardAstronomy #WaxingGibbous