{"id":129379,"date":"2023-02-06T07:03:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=129379"},"modified":"2023-02-06T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T15:44:42","slug":"some-recent-birds-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/06\/some-recent-birds-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Recent Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six photos of six species, all taken within the last month.<\/p>\n

Occasionally I like to post a collection of recent bird photos that may not be worthy of standalone status on my blog but they’re still reasonably good photos and collectively they’re a fairly accurate representation of the species I’ve been photographing lately. These photos were taken at or near local ponds, Farmington Bay WMA\u00a0 and Bear River MBR.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

A Pied-billed Grebe beating up on a crayfish (crawdad if you prefer) before swallowing it.<\/p>\n

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

Canada Geese coming in to graze on a grassy field.<\/p>\n

I’m not particularly fond of the boring plain sky background but I like the good separation of the birds and the placement of the geese in the frame. And the fact that all three are sharp – at the focal lengths I shoot at I have very little depth of field.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

A male Common Goldeneye threatening another male out of frame to the right.<\/p>\n

Whenever a male Goldeneye strikes this pose, with his head and bill laying flat on the water, the photographer should be prepared for a sudden and explosive forward attack on another bird. In this instance it didn’t happen but in my experience it does almost half the time<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

An American Coot chasing another coot that is out of frame to the right. The water splashes in front of the bird were made by the coot this one was chasing.<\/p>\n

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

A sidelit male American Kestrel actively hunting voles and other potential prey below him. This light angle makes it very difficult to get a catch light in the eye but in this shot I got one in his left eye.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 1000, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

An adult Bald Eagle about to land in a tree. The eagle passed behind the branches we see in front of ‘him’ and landed on another branch that’s out of frame to the left. The background is snow-covered mountains in shade.<\/p>\n

I posted a different photo of this eagle a few weeks ago but this one is new to Feathered Photography.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Six photos of six species, all taken within the last month.<\/p>\n

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