{"id":16212,"date":"2013-06-23T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=16212"},"modified":"2013-06-23T06:42:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T12:42:20","slug":"western-wood-peewee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/23\/western-wood-peewee\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Wood-Peewee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often make the observation that one of the reasons I’m a bird <em>photographer<\/em> rather than a birder is because many of the trappings of traditional birding simply don’t appeal to me – keeping lists, in particular.\u00a0 But I’ll admit that getting a “lifer” rings my bell (for me, a lifer means my first\u00a0good shots of the species, not the first time I’ve seen one).<\/p>\n<p>This Western Wood-Peewee from my first Montana trip this month was a bell-ringer for me.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5232-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16213\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/23\/western-wood-peewee\/western-wood-peewee-5232-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5232-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,691\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1370421396","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.0004","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"western wood peewee 5232 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5232-ron-dudley-300x230.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5232-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16213\" alt=\"western wood peewee 5232 ron dudley\" src=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5232-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5232-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5232-ron-dudley-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5232-ron-dudley-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5232-ron-dudley-400x307.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A relatively\u00a0drab bird on rusty barbed wire with a similarly colored background makes for a shot that is basically monochromatic\u00a0but I’m fine with that and I also like the graphic lines of the two strands of rusty barbed\u00a0wire.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5263-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16214\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/23\/western-wood-peewee\/western-wood-peewee-5263-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5263-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,697\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1370421559","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.0003125","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"western wood peewee 5263 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5263-ron-dudley-300x232.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5263-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16214\" alt=\"western wood peewee 5263 ron dudley\" src=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5263-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5263-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5263-ron-dudley-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5263-ron-dudley-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5263-ron-dudley-400x309.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This bird was “sit and wait hunting” on the wire\u00a0for small insects.\u00a0 Because they’re so small and light-weight their take-off is incredibly fast – so much so\u00a0that the photographer has virtually no chance to get a take-off shot unless…<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5264-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16215\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/23\/western-wood-peewee\/western-wood-peewee-5264-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5264-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,682\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1370421568","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.0003125","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"western wood peewee 5264 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5264-ron-dudley-300x227.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5264-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16215\" alt=\"western wood peewee 5264 ron dudley\" src=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5264-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5264-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5264-ron-dudley-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5264-ron-dudley-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5264-ron-dudley-400x303.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>\u00a01\/3200, f\/5.6, ISO 640. 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">you just luck out and happen to press the shutter button at the right moment, which is exactly what happened here.\u00a0 I’m glad I had the shutter speed for the shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These birds usually hunt from high perches so I was happy to catch a few of them hunting from the wire\u00a0this low to the ground and at eye level<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often make the observation that one of the reasons I’m a bird photographer rather than a birder is because many of the trappings of traditional birding simply don’t appeal to me – keeping lists, in particular. But I’ll admit that getting a “lifer” rings my bell.<\/p>\n<p>And a lifer I got on this last Montana trip – a Western Wood-Peewee. Several of them, in fact.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/23\/western-wood-peewee\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[334,1493,1519],"tags":[1521,178,1522,220,1520],"class_list":["post-16212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-montana-favorite-locations","category-western-wood-peewee","tag-contopus-sordidulus","tag-hunting","tag-lifer","tag-montana-2","tag-western-wood-peewee-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/western-wood-peewee-5264-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-4du","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}