{"id":164940,"date":"2024-10-22T06:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T12:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=164940"},"modified":"2024-10-22T08:52:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T14:52:40","slug":"black-billed-magpie-taking-off-and-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/22\/black-billed-magpie-taking-off-and-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-billed Magpie Taking Off And In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning on Antelope Island I tried a half dozen times to get a Black-billed Magpie in my viewfinder but each time the bird took off before I even got my pickup stopped.<\/p>\n

This last magpie was only slightly slower.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 1000, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I got it in my viewfinder but not in focus before it launched. This is my first sharp shot of the magpie as it was taking off from its sagebrush perch.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 1000, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

In the next photo it had its nictitating membrane half closed.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 1000, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This is probably my favorite shot in the four sequential photo series. There isn’t a lot of detail in some of the blacks but I think the flight posture more than makes up for it.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 1000, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the last photo I got before the magpie turned away from me in flight.<\/p>\n

I found this bird along the main road going south but on a pretty remote part of the island and while I was photographing it I was the only one there. But as soon as the bird was gone, another vehicle pulled up from behind me and stopped right next to me because the driver saw my lens pointed out the window and wanted to see what I’d stopped for. Then another car coming from the other direction also stopped, right in front of me. It didn’t have much choice.<\/p>\n

So there we were, three vehicles in a cluster. I was pulled off the left side of the road but the other two were completely blocking the road and had me boxed in. I couldn’t leave until at least one of the other two did. And that took much longer than it should have because at least one of the other two drivers continued to look for what I was photographing, which was already gone.<\/p>\n

People! At least I got my magpie in flight photos before the looky-loo’s showed up. But just barely.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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My first decent magpie flight shots in quite a while. (4 photos)<\/p>\n

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