{"id":113238,"date":"2022-06-28T05:15:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=113238"},"modified":"2022-06-28T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T11:30:42","slug":"western-meadowlark-perched-and-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/28\/western-meadowlark-perched-and-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Meadowlark Perched And In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interpreting behaviors to get the shot.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

As readers know, I’m always game for takeoff and flight shots so yesterday morning on Antelope Island I instantly switched into that mode when this Western Meadowlark gave me a hint that ‘he’ might be about to launch. He’d been singing in a more typical, almost horizontal posture and facing to my right when he suddenly stood up tall in the saddle and looked with great interest at something in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n

So I gave him a lot more room in the frame in that direction and hoped for the best.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Sure enough, about two seconds later he was off in the general direction he’d been looking. I got three flight shots but I like this one best because of the sweeping arc of his combined wings and the position of his feet and legs relative to each other. The background isn’t my favorite because it’s mostly homogenous and not very interesting but at least there’s a faint hint of color from the far-off mountains at lower right.<\/p>\n

I’m always interested in seeing those splashes of yellow on the leading edges of their wings. I’ve been aware of them in meadowlarks for years but for some reason they always surprise me a little when I see them when their wings are wide open in flight. When meadowlarks are perched, with their wings folded against their body, they just look like part of the yellow breast (as is apparent in photo #1).<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Interpreting behaviors to get the shot. (2 photos)<\/p>\n

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