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Yellow Rumped Warbler in the grapes this time!

a warbler with slight yellow on the chest. Sits on a grape vine amidst red and green grspe leaves, it looks to the camera.
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Got a Kinglet in one place for a few moments!

a small yellow Kinglet bird with white eyeliner abd white wing bars. it is peering at a cluster of grapes amongst grape leaves.
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Close up of the pea sized hail and frost. The hail didn’t melt overnight!

pea sized hail on bark with a frosty seedling. A finger for scale.
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First major frosty morning here.

within a residential area, frost on a roof, car, and the ground with palm trees in the distance
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Pea sized hail in Orland!!

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Some kind of Kinglet, maybe a Ruby Crown Kinglet, in the grapes this time. Was moving fast as birds do.

a yellowish Kinglet bird in a geape vine surrounded by grapes.
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It’s hilarious to me that it’s easier for me to use the Sonos app to listen to the latest Apple Music Strombo Show. Sonos app can put the show front and center while Apple Music makes me search for Strombo cuz the Radio tab is garbage.

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Western Mockingbird enjoying a desiccated grape in our backyard.

black, gray and white mockingbird in the shadow of a senescing grape plant with a dessicated grape in its beak.
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Oops. Didn’t quite get the focus right. Still looks delicious. And was. Left over cranberry sauce + Humboldt Creamery vanilla ice cream.

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Fujifilm X Raw Studio is very snappy with the X-T5 camera. Hardly any wait for reprocessing lossless compressed raw. Took a few seconds with the X100V, and only a split second on the X-T5 w/provided USB C cables. That makes a huge difference.

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#caturday

A black and white cat laying in a blue & grey striped wool bed against a sliding glass door. She has white under the nose and a white chest. Her black fur is somewhat rusty at the haunches.
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In the Micro.Blog app, I’d love to be able to selectively disable cross-posting sites instead of all or nothing. Here’s hawk bum for reading my unsolicited feature request!

bottom end of a hawk in a willow tree
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Gorgeous day today in Northern California. This is from the same place where we saw the Northern Flickers (and Nutall’s and Acorn Woodpeckers).

blue skie with subs cliffs above golden grasses, a dead oak stump, and trees plus buttes on the horizon.
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Northern Flickers galore on the trail today. Managed to photograph one.

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My contribution to Thanksgiving is cleaning up the kitchen after major steps are completed by my wife & cranberry sauce. Can’t wait for tomorrow. Lots of prep today!

Whole cranberries in pot waiting to be cooked down into sauce.
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WiFi tethering with the X-T5 looks like a game changer for around the house photos. I’ve got my Mac Mini as the Fujifilm Acquire server. I tested turning off the camera during transmit. The RAW sent but not the JPEG. I could really complicate things with Hazel and Shortcuts ;-)

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The 5 Ghz WiFi setting to transfer from X-T5 to the Fujifilm iOS app is surprisingly usable with only a few seconds per 20MB 40 megapixel JPEG. Excellent. The 2.4 Ghz, like for the X100V, is still garbage at 10+ seconds per image (not actually measured but felt like it).

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Backyard House Sparrows - 84mm equivalent & cropped to zoom, using those X-T5 40 Megapixels! I am planning to get a 200 mm lens in a few months & really start birding.

House sparrows foraging for bird seeds in a gravel area below a feeder.
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Put the ale into secondary fermentation this morning and my sample is at 5% ABV! 🍺 🙌

A gravity measuring device in a tube vessel with amber beer. The meniscus is at 1.010.
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Good news. The X Raw Studio config files (~/Library/App Support/com.fujifilm.denji) for the Fujifilm X-T5 are exactly the same as for the X100V. Only a few strings like model, serial #, and IOP (what?) are different. So it’ll be easy bringing over my film sim recipes to the X-T5.