{"id":104211,"date":"2021-11-18T05:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=104211"},"modified":"2021-11-18T06:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T13:36:39","slug":"birds-being-birds-at-farmington-bay-wma-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/18\/birds-being-birds-at-farmington-bay-wma-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds Being Birds At Farmington Bay WMA Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Including interesting strategy, fighting and being just plain uncooperative.<\/p>\n<p>Like all bird photographers I have days in the field where photos I’m really proud of elude me completely and yesterday at Farmington Bay was one of those days. The potential was there (barely) but things just didn’t work out as well as I hoped. These three photos document my experience.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"104213\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/18\/birds-being-birds-at-farmington-bay-wma-yesterday\/white-faced-ibis-1100-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-faced-ibis-1100-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1637136400","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.0003125","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"white-faced ibis 1100 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-faced-ibis-1100-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-faced-ibis-1100-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-104213 size-full\" title=\"white-faced-ibis-1100-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-faced-ibis-1100-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-faced-ibis-1100-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-faced-ibis-1100-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-faced-ibis-1100-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-faced-ibis-1100-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 800, 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<p>Soon after sunrise when the light was still very warm I watched as this White-faced Ibis lifted off from a group of its companions and flew directly toward this old clump of phrags.<\/p>\n<p>Originally its intention was to land on top of the clump but there were so many tall phrag stems sticking out of it vertically that would impede its landing the ibis decided to try a different strategy. It landed in the water directly in front of the clump and then used its long bill, wings and feet to climb up the steep side of it. That long, down-curved bill proved to be extremely handy as a climbing aid.<\/p>\n<p>Once the ibis got to the top it spent a long time up there preening but there were phrag stems in front of the bird so I gave up and turned my attention to other opportunities.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"104212\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/18\/birds-being-birds-at-farmington-bay-wma-yesterday\/pied-billed-grebe-1114-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-1114-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1637136646","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.0005","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"pied-billed grebe 1114 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-1114-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-1114-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-104212 size-full\" title=\"pied-billed-grebe-1114-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-1114-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-1114-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-1114-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-1114-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pied-billed-grebe-1114-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, 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<p>Over the years I cut my action-photography teeth on fighting Pied-billed Grebes at this very pond at Farmington. These grebes are small and incredibly quick so getting decent photos of them as they skitter across the water during fighting episodes is a very tall order.<\/p>\n<p>I had one chance at a grebe fight and this is the best result I got. They were nearly out of frame and there’s no light on the chasing grebe’s face but I think the photo still gives a pretty good sense of the action and behavior. I do wish I’d had a little more shutter speed.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rough-legged-hawk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"104215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/18\/birds-being-birds-at-farmington-bay-wma-yesterday\/rough-legged-hawk\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rough-legged-hawk.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1637137728","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.00015625","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"rough-legged hawk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rough-legged-hawk-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rough-legged-hawk.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-104215 size-full\" title=\"rough-legged-hawk 1163 ron dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rough-legged-hawk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rough-legged-hawk.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rough-legged-hawk-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rough-legged-hawk-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/rough-legged-hawk-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/6400, f\/6.3, ISO 800, 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<p>A little while later I came across this Rough-legged Hawk in a tree. I’d seen it earlier in the morning in the same tree but that was before sunrise so I didn’t even stop for the bird.<\/p>\n<p>This time around when I got the hawk in my viewfinder it became apparent that there were twigs in front of its face so normally I would have only taken a photo or two for documentary purposes and gone on my way. But as soon as I aimed my lens at the bird it performed a wing stretch so I instinctively fired off a burst.<\/p>\n<p>Because of all the twigs in front of the bird and because there was a group of other photographers already there (including some who had exited their vehicle? and were walking around very close to the bird) I only spent about one minute with the hawk before I left. When it comes to bird photography I don’t play well in crowds, especially when some are on foot and very close to raptors.<\/p>\n<p>So that was how my morning went. No great photos but at least I got to spend some time with birds and scratch the itch of my cabin fever..<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Including interesting strategy, fighting and being just plain uncooperative.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/18\/birds-being-birds-at-farmington-bay-wma-yesterday\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[334,2782,394,359,358,972],"tags":[1008,140,251,269,715],"class_list":["post-104211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-farmington-bay-waterfowl-management-area","category-fighting-bird-behaviors","category-pied-billed-grebes","category-rough-legged-hawks","category-white-faced-ibis-wading-birds","tag-farmington-bay-waterfowl-management-area","tag-fighting","tag-pied-billed-grebe","tag-rough-legged-hawk","tag-white-faced-ibis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/white-faced-ibis-1100-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-r6P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104236,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104211\/revisions\/104236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}