{"id":100716,"date":"2021-07-27T05:30:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=100716"},"modified":"2021-07-27T07:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T13:21:46","slug":"male-yellow-warbler-fluffed-up-singing-and-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/27\/male-yellow-warbler-fluffed-up-singing-and-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Yellow Warbler – Fluffed Up, Singing and… Happy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here we go again. You know, that anthropomorphism<\/a><\/span><\/span> thing.<\/p>\n

Can birds be happy? Or display any other emotion that some folks insist on assigning strictly to humans?<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/5.6, ISO 1000, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday morning the wildfire smoke in the mountains cut down on the available light so I had to crank up my ISO and change my default aperture to even approach the shutter speeds I prefer for little birds.<\/p>\n

I first started photographing this male Yellow Warbler while he was preening on another perch soon after bathing. I had him in my viewfinder for almost three minutes while he was preening (long enough for me to take 404 photos) before he flew to another perch and eventually this one where he fluffed up and started singing away.<\/p>\n

I adore those fluffy, freshly washed feathers sticking out on his sides.<\/p>\n

He looked and acted happy. And after all, it was a refreshingly cool mountain morning, he’d just had a bath and spent a long time primping and preening, he was singing in the sunshine and there were lady warblers around to appreciate his new-found… dandiness.<\/p>\n

I think he actually was<\/em> happy. I don’t know he was happy but I think he was. I’m open to evidence to the contrary but without it I’d be a hard sell.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Here we go again. You know, that anthropomorphism thing.<\/p>\n

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