Mid-April Snow Showers - 15 Apr 2020

Today brought snow flurries through SE Michigan. Less than 1" fell, and none of it stuck, but it was fun to digiscope yard birds through the window as the Sun shone while snow was falling.

I digiscoped this Northern Cardinal male by stacking 3-4 frames at a time to bring out the snow from the background. The composite images concentrated the snow while the bird and branches were still.

single frame

3 frames stacked

As night crept in Yara and I spotted a very light-colored Opossum moving through the shadows toward the thistle feeders. I grabbed the a9 and 200-600mm lens and shot away at 1/8 sec. and ISO 6400 in the dark. Shooting at 20fps saved the sequence as I was able to pull 1 or 2 sharp images handheld. 1/8 sec. at 280 mm is pretty good!