{"id":142711,"date":"2023-09-11T05:26:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=142711"},"modified":"2023-09-11T13:05:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:05:47","slug":"some-recent-birds-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/11\/some-recent-birds-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Recent Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thirteen photos of eleven species.<\/p>\n

Occasionally I post a collection of photos that don’t quite cut the mustard as standalone shots but I think they still have something to offer, collectively if not individually. Each of these 13 photos was taken at or near Bear River MBR in the last 13 days.<\/p>\n

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A White-faced Ibis dumping a load at sunrise. Funky light.<\/p>\n

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A Red-winged Blackbird feeding on sunflower seeds. Ironically, I had a mouthful of sunflower seeds when I took the photo. Yes, when I’m in the field I occasionally eat sunflower seeds for breakfast. Not instead of a chocolate donut, in addition to…<\/p>\n

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I’m only including this photo of a Franklin’s Gull because this bird, and a few others out of frame to the left, were the first Franklin’s Gulls I’ve seen this season. Good to see them back.<\/p>\n

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An American White Pelican in flight. This is one of the low-flying pelicans that spooked the immature Black-crowned Night Heron I posted a few days ago, which distracted me and prevented me from getting takeoff and flight shots of the heron.<\/p>\n

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A Snowy Egret skimming over the phrags. I think there’s interesting side light on the bird. Its feet are in shade so its “slippers” don’t appear to be golden.<\/p>\n

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An incredibly patient adult Eastern Kingbird with two pestering youngsters below ‘her’.<\/p>\n

Here she’d climbed above them in an attempt to get a respite from their clingy ways. I was too close to them so all we see of the second youngster is a tiny portion of its back at lower left. I found this family unit every time I visited the refuge over a span of several weeks but there were always twigs in the way.<\/p>\n

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Yellow-headed Blackbirds like sunflower seeds too.<\/p>\n

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I was curious about what this immature White-faced Ibis was eating so I tried to time my shots to allow me to see what it was. I still don’t know. Whatever it was, was enclosed in a glob of water.<\/p>\n

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Usually, Great Blue Herons in flight are slow and lumbering but this one had turned on its afterburners for a reason.<\/p>\n

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It was chasing another heron away from its feeding territory. I never did get both birds fully in frame.<\/p>\n

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A Tree Swallow on phrags at dawn.<\/p>\n

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A Solitary Sandpiper who seems not so solitary accompanied by its own reflection.<\/p>\n

When I see photos similar to this one, my brain often asks the question – “There’s mud above the bird’s head so why isn’t there mud below its head in the reflection?” I know why that’s the case, but it always takes me aback for a moment anyway.<\/p>\n

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As of 12 days ago, Western Grebes were still feeding fish to their youngsters. I expect some of them still are.<\/p>\n

So there you have it. There isn’t a prize winner in the bunch but these photos are a fairly accurate representation of the species I’ve been photographing lately and at least some of them are interesting in their own right.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Thirteen photos of eleven species.<\/p>\n

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