More Flash'n

Faithful readers, I hope, will indulge me again as I seek to better understand another BirdCam product feature. Lately I have been experimenting with the new BirdCam 2.0 flash. I am satisfied that it works as advertised and that it can result in some nifty pictures of wildlife in the darker hours. Until Saturday I had only picked up flashed photos on the ground. So the mission became getting photos up in the air. Each day of the past weekend I rotated the BirdCam for different perspectives of tube and suet feeders, and got one likely candidate while pointing in the darkest direction of the three. This photograph, unfortunately starring one of the most wretched sciurus carolinensis, seems to have been flash-illuminated. It is more warmly colored --and brighter overall -- than a paired photo taken two minutes earlier, and there is far more glare than I would expect from the sun. I note that I still haven't got a "tube bird," and I know from long experience that visits by the tube and suet birds do begin before sunrise. So what am I missing? Obviously more research and more data are required. And for those BirdCammers who have 2.0, switch this feature on, be patient, and see what happens! I'm sure you will be amazed and surprised by the results.