{"id":164571,"date":"2024-10-03T06:09:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T12:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=164571"},"modified":"2024-10-03T06:45:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T12:45:10","slug":"some-recent-birds-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/03\/some-recent-birds-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Recent Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bird potpourri. Ten photos of seven species.<\/p>\n

Occasionally I post a collection of recent photos that may not rate standalone status on my blog but I think they deserve to be seen. Individually, each one includes something of interest and collectively they represent what my recent birding trips have been like.<\/p>\n

Each of the following photos was taken in remote areas of northern Utah within the last two weeks.<\/p>\n

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It’s been a good year for Chukars, at least in Box Elder County. But this time of year almost all of them I see are on the remote dirt\/gravel roads in front of me, rather than in natural habitat. Then, when I drive forward, they disappear in the grass and brush.<\/p>\n

These two were an exception. They’d been on the road but when they scurried into the roadside vegetation they turned around for a moment and faced me.<\/p>\n

You can see how incredibly cryptic their coloration is. You’d better not take your eye off them when they’re in habitat because if you do, you’ll probably never be able to spot them again.<\/p>\n

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Adult White-crowned Sparrows look quite different from their…<\/p>\n

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juvenile counterparts.<\/p>\n

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An immature Red-tailed Hawk taking off toward me. After this shot was taken the bird veered off to its right. I got many flight shots but all I had was blue sky in the background and the hawk’s face was shaded.<\/p>\n

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A side lit Sage Thrasher that flew in for a snack of wild rose hips.<\/p>\n

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The rose hips are attached firmly to the plant by their stems so the thrasher struggled to break the attachment. But eventually the bird was successful.<\/p>\n

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A Turkey Vulture circling above road kill.<\/p>\n

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Another Turkey Vulture preening on a photogenic perch.<\/p>\n

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A Swainson’s Hawk trying to look dignified, which is difficult to do when you have remnants of your last meal clinging to the top of your bill. In other photos of this bird its messy bill was even more obvious.<\/p>\n

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I was struggling to get photos of a small group of male Ring-necked Pheasants on the ground that were mostly buried in the grasses when I finally noticed this rooster perched in a tree right in front of me. He was so close I could barely give him enough breathing room in the frame.<\/p>\n

I quite like this shot, even though some might see the mottled light as problematic.<\/p>\n

There you have it, a group of photos that pretty accurately represents the birds I’ve been seeing lately. Hopefully it won’t be long before new migrants provide a little more species variety.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Bird potpourri. Ten photos of seven species, all taken within the last two weeks.<\/p>\n

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