{"id":144999,"date":"2023-10-19T05:51:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T11:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=144999"},"modified":"2023-10-19T06:31:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T12:31:19","slug":"wilsons-snipes-a-photo-sampler-of-my-best-day-in-the-field-in-a-very-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/19\/wilsons-snipes-a-photo-sampler-of-my-best-day-in-the-field-in-a-very-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson’s Snipes – A Photo Sampler Of My Best Day In The Field In A Very Long Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I had more fun with Wilson’s Snipes than is usually legal in Utah.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

They were close (sometimes too close), in good light, many were out in the open and there were far more of them than I could count. This photo is full frame (uncropped).<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Groups of snipes were flying in to land right in front of me, to replace other groups that were leaving intermittently. This is only a very small portion of the flock these snipes were in.<\/p>\n

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Landing shots are never easy but I tried.<\/p>\n

I spent lots of time with…<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/8, ISO 500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

lots of weird little birds doing…<\/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

lots of weird little things. This snipe is not preparing to take off. Notice the highly unusual position of ‘his’ tail.<\/p>\n

I spent over an hour with them and took over 1000 photos (I could have taken many hundreds more but after a while I forced myself to be more judicious with my shutter button). I still have hours of work in front of me, reviewing, processing and culling photos of them while they were feeding, preening, in flight, landing, taking off, interacting with each other in groups and just being weird, as snipes often are.<\/p>\n

I know from experience that some of my blog followers don’t much appreciate “teaser posts” so with this introductory post I decided to include a small sampler of photos, chosen pretty much at random, representing some of the types of photos I got of them.<\/p>\n

There will be more in the near future.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Yesterday morning I had more fun with Wilson’s Snipes than is usually legal in Utah. (5 photos)<\/p>\n

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