{"id":113912,"date":"2022-07-08T04:52:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T10:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=113912"},"modified":"2022-07-08T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:38:17","slug":"male-lazuli-bunting-and-some-phantom-spider-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/08\/male-lazuli-bunting-and-some-phantom-spider-silk\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Lazuli Bunting And Some Phantom Spider Silk"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first decent photos of a Lazuli Bunting of either sex this year.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday morning I finally got back into the field again, this time into the mountains, and this male Lazuli Bunting was one of my rewards. He perched in one of the few open spots in a large willow and I even had good light on him. He didn’t give me much pose variety and he wasn’t particularly close but he was close ‘enough’, whatever that is.<\/p>\n

I wish he’d been singing but he wasn’t, despite the fact that male Lazuli Buntings are known for persistent singing long after most other birds have stopped singing late in the breeding season. From Cornell – “Each male two years of age and older sings only one song, composed of a series of different syllables. This crystallized song tends to be an \u201cacoustic barcode\u201d that is different from that of other individuals.”<\/p>\n

He wasn’t here for long but his next perch…<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

was only a couple of feet away and I had a pretty good look at him here too. I was hoping for takeoff or flight shots but that didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

When I reviewed my photos of him at home I noticed something I didn’t see through my viewfinder.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

For the entire time he was on this perch there was a strand of tightly stretched spider silk attached to his head at one end and to a twig above him at the other. The slightly strange thing was that I could only see it depending on the angle his head was turned, so it would appear and disappear in my photos like a phantom. Or maybe it depended on how erect his head feathers were. I dunno.<\/p>\n

The second photo above is an example of a photo where I couldn’t see it. But it was there and it didn’t take much of a head turn to make it disappear and reappear.<\/p>\n

No big deal but I enjoy seeing things like that in my photos.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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PS – Sometimes, when I really stare at photo number 2, I think I might be able to see just a hint of the spider silk. And then I don’t…<\/em><\/p>\n

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My first decent photos of a Lazuli Bunting of either sex this year. (3 photos)<\/p>\n

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