The tide and weather were both terrible for photographing shorebirds during my recent trip to the Bolivar Peninsula of Texas. But the birds at the nearby Smith Oaks Rookery and Bird Sanctuary did not abandon the area because of the weather. The sanctuary is heavily wooded and the light levels are low even when the clouds are not obscuring the sun. When it is overcast, ISOs rocket and mandatory noise reduction obscures detail. But I was pleased to get a couple of shots of the Oriole in the open, even if the detail in the images is reduced.