On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 5:57:26 PM UTC, wrote:
From our back garden in Bracknell there was a notable hush to any bird song that had been going on...

If you didn't notice the dimming then you may have seen the shadows cast on the ground - through dappled light under the leaves of trees you saw countless shimmering crescent like moons (wrong word I know).

I remember looking out for those but didn't see them. But then I was only 93% but you were (according to this thread) 97% so that must be an effect only seen very close to totality. The light did have a very eerie quality about it though, it didn't seem particulary dark as the eyes of course will accustomise but very gloomy. When I took a photo the flash went off, indicating that light levels were like twilight and far below what would be expected on a sunny August morning.

Col