utah – Page 22 – Feathered Photography

Female American Avocet In Flight

So, how do I know this avocet is a female? (2 photos)

Comparing A Great Egret To A Great Blue Heron

In the same photo, in identical hunting poses.

Cattle Egret Taking Off

A new species for Feathered Photography. (3 photos)

Same Broad-tailed Hummingbird As Yesterday, Different Attack Takeoff

Including one photo where his gorget is fully lit up in all its glory. (5 photos)

Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird In Full Attack Mode At Takeoff

A photo I’ve lusted after for a very long time. (2 photos)

Some More Recent Birds

Nine photos of eight species.

The Songs Of A Mockingbird

Something a little different from me today. (1 photo, 3 video clips)

Forster’s Tern – A Dive And Then Something Special

One of these shots immediately became one of my favorite bird photos and we can’t even see the bird’s head. (4 photos)

Nesting Black-necked Stilts – The Changing Of The Guard

Including a snippet of endearing tern behavior that I’d never seen before. Or even heard of. (12 photos)

Forster’s Tern Aerial Gymnastics

A couple of flight postures I doubt I’ll ever see again. Almost certainly I’ll never photograph them again. (2 photos)

Pronghorn Doe Portrait

Check out her thick eyelashes and unusually long eyebrow hairs. (2 photos)

Yellow Warbler – An Explosive, Horizontal Takeoff

My first Yellow Warbler of the year and I caught him at takeoff. With this species, quality takeoff and flight shots are highly unusual for me. (2 photos)

Some Different Strategies For Documenting Mockingbird Flight Displays (a type of courtship display)

Strategies that should give the viewer a sense of the speed of the display and how high they fly. (8 photos and one video)

Loggerhead Shrike Regurgitating A (sticky) Pellet

Including an up-close look at the still wet and warm pellet. (7 photos)

Yellow-rumped Warbler Preening And Acting A Little Nuts After His Bath

There must have been something in the water. (12 photos)

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