She is very feisty towards those below her in the pecking order.Wow really?! She’s quite ballsy for a wee hen
What a great post! Thanks for the tips.Monday Mugs (late). Portraits of Popcorn!
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You caught a beautiful blue sheen in Eli’s feathers here!What great intense expressions they both have too!
You asked about getting the green sheen in photos, and I haven’t heard anyone chime in yet, and I can't find tips easily in searching online, so here’s the little I know.
I believe the greens and reds kind of go together, they are warm colors, and are opposite of the blues. I don’t know the physics but it works out that way. Outdoor light skews very blue due to the effect of water which filters for blue (thus our blue sky and blue ice, blue snow, etc). The more outdoor light gathered in the shot, the bluer it tends to be.
The software in your camera / phone / iPad is more important than the lens(es) these days since hardware quality has improved so much. My practical approach is to try to work with whatever “smarts” the camera is trying to implement, which might mean outfoxing it if you’re at odds with it.
So if there’s lots of browns, reds and greens in the shot, it tends to go warmer overall and enhance those colors. When it detects lots of blue and blue light it goes bluer and colder and enhances those colors. So a close-up picture of the Buckeyes is warmer than a further-away one. Notice the first mugshot of Popcorn above skews a little blue, versus the next one, which skews more green-red. The second is a downward, close shot and has green and shaded snow in the background. Cloudy days are great for getting nice feather details with the Buckeyes brown-red coloring. In fact, the prettiest shots are when they are in the shade under green leaves.
If you experiment I'd be interested in what you find out.
Yup, Betty loves spicy food. She has a great beard and muffs.
No Phyllis? Aww, roosting by her lonesomeness 
I was cleaning out the nasty nest box late this evening. I think Betty and Hattie were worried I might come back and therefore roosted to stay safe.
Maybe that is why it is peaceful? Between her AND Aurora, there must be a bit of roosting shenanigans that goes on!
Nice to see Hattie on the roosts again. Maybe the nights are getting short enough that she doesn't need a midnight snack anymore? Or else warm enough she doesn't need the cozy nest box?
sometimes I really wish I could understand what they say...or read their mind. But once is probably all I would want - it might scare me to death what they think and talk about! (Maybe @RoyalChick union talks would be child's play???)
Well I guess it quiet and no one to bother her.
Wonder if it has to do with white patterns in their feathers.
And no one steals her covers.
