Chickens and the eclipse

[jane s chickens]

How dark was it. It looked like it was sundown here 94%.

 

[centrarchid]

For me during totality you could still see colors. Light was not dominated by reds like you see at dawn and dusk.

 

[ChickenMammX4]

Here at 93% it just looked like a storm was moving in. No need for lights. Hardly noticeable. After all the hype, I was disappointed and expected more.

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

I'm in Maine, was supposed to get 60%, but it only got brighter out!

 

[jane s chickens]

GS was disappointed. I had seen one before in the 80's.

 

[aart]

Funny, I've heard a lot of folks say they were disappointed.
Yeah, may be it's not much to see,
especially if you were in a less than 75% area and didn't have glasses,
but the bigger picture is a bigger part of the thrill.
If one doesn't see the big picture,
then one won't 'get' just how special an eclipse is.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Funny, I've heard a lot of folks say they were disappointed.
Yeah, may be it's not much to see,
especially if you were in a less than 75% area and didn't have glasses,
but the bigger picture is a bigger part of the thrill.
If one doesn't see the big picture,
then one won't 'get' just how special an eclipse is.

What's the big picture?
I wasn't disappointed. But I've seen one before so knew what was coming. Most around here were disappointed because we were in the totality zone and the media had it all hyped up to the point people thought the world was going to go completely dark and life was going to stand still for half the day.

 

[theoldchick]

There was total darkness in my coop. I live in the country so there was no other light pollution. You can't get much blacker than this!

About 2 seconds before total darkness:

 

[theoldchick]

Just before total darkness.

 

[PennyM]

I was in the totality zone. It didn't get pitch black out (was kind of hoping) but it got as dark as like an hour after sunset. My girls didn't go to roost, the temperature dropped a few degrees, I saw Venus in the sky and some crickets chirped. But for me, was the fact that I got to see this in my lifetime! When the next coast to coast US eclipse comes again, I will be 106 so I doubt if I'll be alive to experience such an historical event!