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<\/p>\nA situation where gushing hormones aren’t necessarily your friend.<\/p>\n
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1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 114mm, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Three days ago in the mountains this male Mountain Bluebird had a gigantic chip on his shoulder. He had learned that vehicles, with their outside mirrors, brought rival male bluebirds with them. Or at least that’s what he thought they were, so he attacked them at every opportunity and on more than one vehicle. In reality those rival males were only his own reflection in the mirrors.<\/p>\n Here he’s attacking his reflection in the mirror of my pickup. I took quite a few photos of him doing so but for this one I wanted his reflection to be my primary subject (rather than the actual bird) so to get the proper angle I walked to the back of my pickup and took a few photos from there. It isn’t a great shot but I think it’s a highly interesting one.<\/p>\n I plan on devoting a more extensive blog post to this very aggressive bluebird but once again it’ll take me some time plopped in front of my computer to get that many photos processed.so that didn’t happen today.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A situation where gushing hormones aren’t necessarily your friend.<\/p>\n