[Tweeters] How much difference the Light can make for an ID

[jimbetz at jimbetz.com]

Hi all,

   Take a look at the picture in this link.

    
https://eamon.smugmug.com/Family-pics-from-jim/Birds-and-Stuff-from-Jim/n-4Cw3NF/Birds-Web/i-xPwGQWH/A

   We're in Mexico.  This pic is of a Great-Tailed Grackle (used to be  
the much more colorful
"Boat-tailed").  Not how much the blue-black color has shifted towards  
the gold!  This picture
was taken at least a half hour after the sun came over the horizon and  
late enough that there
weren't -any- remnants of color in the clouds.  The color has not been  
shifted during the
post-processing of the image.
                                                                        
          - Jim

P.S. To Vicki who is "looking for swans".  My experience is that the  
swans return to the same
      fields for days at a time.  So using the eBird reports should  
produce good opportunities.
      Many ebird reports are done of sightings from a distance.  I  
assume you know how to use
      the eBird "Explore" and are putting in a region to get the  
latest reports.  Also - my
      other advice is to try to find potato fields in addition to corn  
fields because the
      swans love potatoes and will bury their heads up to 6 or more  
inches deep in the mud to
      find them.  The increase in rain in the area should produce lots  
of flooded places in
      the fields ... again this is a 'swan producing situation'.  With  
all of the rain - the
      swans are quite likely to go to different locations than they  
were just last week.  *G*