{"id":143440,"date":"2023-09-23T05:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T11:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=143440"},"modified":"2023-09-23T05:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T11:11:04","slug":"red-breasted-nuthatch-hanging-from-conifer-cones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/23\/red-breasted-nuthatch-hanging-from-conifer-cones\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-breasted Nuthatch Hanging From Conifer Cones"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m on a roll with upside down birds. Yesterday I posted an upside down Mountain Chickadee<\/a><\/span><\/span> and today I’m posting…<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

an upside down Red-breasted Nuthatch. And the two birds have something else in common. Both were photographed on the same day, November 17, 2019, in the same location (but different trees) in the mountains of the west desert and at nearly the same time. The time stamp on both photos is 10:01 AM.<\/p>\n

The male (top of head is black, not gray-blue as in females) nuthatch was harvesting seeds from Douglas Fir cones. Typical of the species, he wasn’t eating them on the spot. Instead, he was collecting them to cache nearby. I always tried to catch the nuthatches taking off from the cones, usually upside down when they did so, with a seed in their bill but they’re so incrredibly quick that’s a very tall order. Usually I failed.<\/p>\n

But I was still pleased to get this shot with the interesting pose, the complementary colors of bird and cones and the clean, variegated background.<\/p>\n

For those of you growing weary of the older photos I’ve been posting for the last few days, hopefully that’s about to come to an abrupt end. Our skies cleared during the night last night and the forecast for the week is looking good, so I should be able to get out into the field again very soon.<\/p>\n

It’s about damn time. My cabin fever is raging.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I’m on a roll with upside down birds.<\/p>\n

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