{"id":159837,"date":"2024-06-06T06:06:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=159837"},"modified":"2024-06-06T07:28:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T13:28:11","slug":"green-tailed-towhee-singing-on-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/06\/green-tailed-towhee-singing-on-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Green-tailed Towhee Singing On Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning my spark bird was re-sparked.<\/p>\n

Late yesterday afternoon just before 5PM my internet provider announced that internet in my area would be going down for six hours, until 6 AM this morning, due to “scheduled maintenance” (with further inquiry I learned that a server was failing). I was busy last night with other things and I hadn’t even started on today’s post so I had no idea how I was going to get it done in time for publishing this morning.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thankfully, internet came back on earlier than expected this morning but the overall result for Feathered Photography is a post with only one photo.<\/em><\/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

Yesterday morning in the Wasatch Mountains I was absolutely delighted when this presumed male Green-tailed Towhee allowed me a fairly close approach while he was singing on territory. He continued to sing for a long time while I had him in my viewfinder so I got lots of ‘melodious’ photos of him, most looking much like this one.<\/p>\n

Readers may recall that the Green-tailed Towhee was my “spark bird”. In the spring of 1969 while I was taking an ornithology class at the University of Utah the Green-tailed Towhee was my chosen field study species in a mountain canyon between Salt Lake City and Park City. I ended up spending many hours, over weeks, traipsing through the sagebrush with binoculars in hand as I looked for Green-tailed Towhees and attempted to study their nesting behavior.<\/p>\n

Over time my field study evolved into a labor of love and it turned out that Green-tailed Towhees and that college class sparked my love of birds.<\/p>\n

Today my field study area is gone, flooded by Little Dell Reservoir<\/a><\/span><\/span>. More bird habitat lost in order to supply water for the thirsty residents of Salt Lake Valley. Including me.<\/p>\n

But my love for birds remains.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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PS – As of 6:30 this morning today’s post email still hasn’t been sent out to subscribers. At least I haven’t received mine. I don’t know what’s going on.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Update: The post email was finally sent out at 6:43, 45 minutes late.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yesterday morning my spark bird was re-sparked.<\/p>\n

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