{"id":166427,"date":"2025-01-24T06:19:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=166427"},"modified":"2025-01-24T10:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T17:29:50","slug":"some-recent-birds-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/24\/some-recent-birds-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Recent Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Occasionally I post a collection of recent bird photos that, instead of being of being exemplary images in their own right or documenting interesting behaviors or events, simply represent the kinds of birds I’ve been photographing lately. These are photos that I think are pretty good for one reason or another, even if some of them aren’t necessarily top drawer.<\/p>\n

Each of the following eight photos was taken this month in northern Utah.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Canada Geese in a snowstorm. Some folks aren’t very fond of this species, but I like to photograph them in unusual conditions and in flight. For that reason, the first three photos in today’s post are goose photos. Apologies if you’re not a fan.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A ‘wedge’ of Canada Geese in flight. This photo stood out to me because I rarely get this many birds in flight that are all sharp and especially because I virtually never get such good separation between so many birds flying in a group. And I like the wedge shape of the flock.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I’m including this shot of a single Canada Goose for those that prefer better detail in individuals over less detail in larger groups of birds. In this light, the plumage patterns on the left wing really stand out.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A Common Raven with water in the background. This bird was ‘talking’ to another raven in flight that was out of frame to the right. Either that or it was badmouthing the photographer.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

An adult male Northern Harrier, a “Gray Ghost”, hunting along the shore of Great Salt Lake.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A pair, male and female, of Northern Flickers on my neighbor’s roof below their solar panels. I believe it’s too early in the year for flickers to be forming pair bonds but these two sure looked like they were.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A Pied-billed Grebe in the same snowstorm as the geese in photo #1. Yes, I like photos of birds in falling snow and for me the snowflakes on the grebe’s back are a bonus.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

A stunning intermediate morph Red-tailed hawk. At least I believe it’s an intermediate morph.<\/p>\n

It’s been a while since I’ve been as excited to see a bird as I was to see this one. For the last several years a dark morph Red-tailed Hawk has been nesting in the same area where I found this intermediate morph. That dark morph is mated to a more typical light morph red-tail, so I have to wonder if this apparently younger (based on eye color) intermediate morph is one of the offspring of that pair.<\/p>\n

I haven’t seen the dark morph yet this year but it sure would be fun if that bird shows up again this spring, in addition to the intermediate morph. That would make for an exciting summer for this bird photographer.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight photos of six species.<\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166449,"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[334],"tags":[1337,93,2585,746,1144,234,251,311],"class_list":["post-166427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","tag-canada-goose-2","tag-common-raven","tag-dark-morph-red-tailed-hawk","tag-gray-ghost","tag-northern-flicker","tag-northern-harrier","tag-pied-billed-grebe","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/red-tailed-hawk-0695-horizontal-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-Hij","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166468,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166427\/revisions\/166468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}