{"id":103777,"date":"2021-11-05T04:55:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T10:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=103777"},"modified":"2021-11-05T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:01:02","slug":"white-throated-sparrow-a-lifer-for-me-yesterday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/05\/white-throated-sparrow-a-lifer-for-me-yesterday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"White-throated Sparrow – A Lifer For Me Yesterday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

After all these years of photographing birds I don’t get a new ‘lifer’ very often but I got one yesterday.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 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

It was a White-throated Sparrow mixed in with White-crowned Sparrows and House Finches as they all foraged for seeds in a greasewood bush in Davis County. I’d never seen this species before, much less photographed one, so I was delighted to get some pretty decent photos of this one. This pose is a good one for highlighting their distinctive yellow eyebrow stripe and white throat patch edged with black.<\/p>\n

For many of my readers White-throated Sparrows are a common sighting but Utah and most of the rest of the Great Basin are out of their normal range, which explains why this bird was a lifer for me. I’m not a traditional birder (I don’t keep lists) but experiences like this one sure help me to understand the excitement of birders when they find a species they’ve never seen before. For me it was almost like Christmas in early November.<\/p>\n

And I’ll tell you what. I was immensely relieved that my photos of this lifer were as sharp as they should be, as were all of the photos I took yesterday. I’m becoming more convinced that my recent lens repair solved the softness issue I’ve been having with my lens.<\/p>\n

A double Christmas, more than six weeks early.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Late addendum:<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m adding this highly cropped version of the same image in response to a request by Art in his comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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After all these years of photographing birds I don’t get a new ‘lifer’ very often but I got one yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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