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When I captured a frozen image of the cardinal, I looked at his wings, head, and body. There doesn't appear to be any damage. I don't understand how he could batter himself against a window hour after hour, day after day, and not sustain any damage to himself.
After hundreds of tries trying, I came up with camera setting to capture this photos.
I set the shutter speed at 1/5000 of a second. I had the aperture wide open, which is f/4 for this camera at this zoom level. I added two stops of light. I set the ISO on auto, which results in ISO for these images ranging from 2000 to 8000. They had a lot of noise in them.
The bird was so fast, even a fast focusing camera could not catch him before he hit and was gone. I focused the camera on the outside edge of the window. I held the focus hold button down. I depressed the shutter half way, so I was posed to click as soon as I saw him fly into the window.
And still, about 50% of the images were blank. He'd come and gone before I captured anything. About 40% of the images only caught his tail feathers as he flew away. There are only about 15-20 useable images out of the likely 1000 that I took.
The streaks on the window are from his attacks. I thought of washing the window, but then I thought that would only enhance the reflection, so I left them streaked and dirty.
I wake up to his thumping on the window every morning. I don't know when this will end.
Walnut Hill Farm, Half Moon Township, Pennsylvania, Dec 5, 2022
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SONY DSC-RX10M4
1/5000 second
F/4.0
ISO 8000
247 mm (35mm equiv.)