This morning Europe got a (nearly) total eclipse of the sun. So at 09.30hrs I stood in the back garden with my camera, but mostly all I could see was a cloudy sky. I held on though and the clouds thinned out enough for me to get some shots. I read up on shooting an eclipse, and you’re supposed to have solar filters and low ISO small aperture etc but my little compact Nikon S1 didn’t have any of that, I suppose the clouds were enough filter. Anyway I managed a few as the moon travelled across the sun, and that was cool to see. It didn’t go dark, the birds kept flying and tweeting, so not very dramatic here.
Also my Tree of Birds has had a few visitors, this little chappy has been coming for a few days and is usually too fast to catch, but today he sat on a branch a while and I got him.
Cute 🙂
A pair of Great Tits ( 😀 😀 😀 sorry ) have been visiting too, here’s one of them at the trough.
and the acrobatic blue tits also making use of the fast food emporium on my tree.
fraggle ~ rocking a camera across the Universe 
Wonderful shots Fraggle! Now I’m off to see yesterday’s post. Woo Hoo!
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Hiya Pamo, nice to see your smiley face 🙂
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“A pair of Great Tits”. LOL. (You’re incorrigible!) 😀
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In fact the total was 3pairs of tits, Long,Blue & Great, a veritable titfest!
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The news today in my country were not about the eclipse in the far Europe but about the clouds, that happens here too. Err, I see one tit, Do we want to see both of them? lol
Despite the clouds I like your report of the eclipse, it looks like a theatrical scenery.
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I was really glad of the clouds, if it had been a clef sky my camera and eyes would not have coped!
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We had so many clouds and fog here … I did not even get my gear ready for a shot. I thought the possible title of my picture: “eclipse behind a wall of clouds” would not be worth the effort. Thanks for sharing your one. I think it is one of the best because of the light clouds. Very interesting shots of the “veritable birds titfest under the eclipse”. 🙂 Sounds like a movie title!
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Good that you managed to see some of the eclipse. They don’t come around that often!
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no sadly. Wish I could go to the 2017 one in America, that’s going to be spectacular.
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Love these!!
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Wow! How great that you were able to see the eclipse… we weren’t able to see it here. Living vicariously through you, I guess. 😉
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you’ll get it better in August 2017 when there will be a total eclipse of the sun across central america, wish I could be there for that one, ours was a bit of a damp squib really.
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At least I got to see the eclipse through your photo. Where I was situated it was all cloudy and no visibility. A lovely shot. And the so are the bird photos. All very beautiful.
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thanks Otto 🙂
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Great shot of the eclipse. Didn’t get see it down here in Sussex, it was completely clouded over. Well, there’s always the next total eclipse in 2026
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i’ll fix the tripod to my zimmer frame….
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