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<\/p>\nLots of “chip” in today’s post.<\/p>\n
Three days ago in the mountains I found another mixed flock of songbirds in an isolated clump of bushes near a road. The flock included Yellow Warblers, Song Sparrows, Green-tailed Towhees, House Wrens, Chipping Sparrows and at least one Cedar Waxwing.<\/p>\n
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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n This is one of three young Chipping Sparrows who were preening after a recent bath. I caught this one in a fairly ‘normal’ pose but most of the time they had their heads buried in their plumage or their backs to me as they worked their feathers over.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/8000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Here’s another one of the three. This may look like a leisurely wing stretch but it happened so fast I didn’t even know it had occurred until I looked at my photos at home.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/6400, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n The three sparrows were only about a foot or less apart from each other on two different perches. I wish I’d taken more photos like this one to see if I could catch both birds with light on their faces and in their eyes. But nearly always in a situation like this, one bird is closer to me than the other so I don’t have enough depth of field to get them both sharp. So I don’t even try. Through my viewfinder I can’t tell if they’re both truly sharp so I have to wait until I get home to make that determination.<\/p>\n But this time both birds were the same distance from me (they were both in the same focal plane) so both sparrows are sharp. If I’d taken more photos I probably would have been able to get some that had better poses from both birds. Live and learn.<\/p>\n Chipping Sparrows are one of the most common and widely distributed songbirds in North America so for a lot of folks they’re just another LBJ (little brown job) that doesn’t inspire much interest.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n So I decided to end today’s post with some mammalian cuteness I found just down the road from the sparrows. This Least Chipmunk seemed to be hugging ‘his’ perch as he watched me through a tunnel of branches and foliage. I was fairly close to him so I didn’t have enough depth of field to get his long tail sharp. But cute is cute.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/2500, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n As I prepared to leave he appeared to be sending me off with an extended wave of his right ‘hand’. In reality, he was only stretching.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lots of “chip” in today’s post. (5 photos)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/chipping-sparrow-1080-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"chipping-sparrow-1080-ron-dudley\\"")
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