As evening comes more early

Chickadee! In a position in which photography is not utterly and abjectly hopeless!
Stretched about as far as it'll go, exposure wise, and the poor thing looks like it's got a rather glowy feather condition.
Pretty close to the actual lighting; probably a better picture in some nice-to-look-at sense.
And why I have a chickadee holding almost still enough to photograph, cat on the balcony or not.

The thoroughly crepuscular cardinals are the next project.