LittleRed

So this is spring, is it? Woke up yesterday morn to find 8 inches of fresh, wet, heavy snow in the driveway. No way in hell I'm gonna shovel again this year. Ran the car back and forth a dozen times to pack it down a bit. Anyhows, they have promised (again) that next week it will be warm and sunny. Whats a sun??
With nothing much to do I spent a few minutes playing with my Canon SX50. Not the best time to take pics with it being heavy overcast and some mist but wanted to see what it could do in very poor light. I dont think it did too bad, a bit noisy but considering the circumstances did pretty fair. Also, contrary to what Canon says there is a bit of a lag from the time you press the shutter button to the time the pic is taken. Not much, but with a bird whom is known to move quite quickly it seems like a lot. These are three pics I took from my back door at some Finches on my feeders in the gloom of late PM. All were taken on a tripod as this old man has trouble being steady even on sunny days.

Purple Finch (male) - Canon SX50 @ 188mm, 1/320, 800 ISO


Purple Finch (female) - Canon SX50 @ 215mm, 1/160, 160 ISO


American Goldfinch (male) - Canon SX50 @ 215mm, 1/160, 125 ISO

medavis43 Loc: Folkston, GA

At least the birds are colorful - good contrast with the snow! Nice pics!