{"id":166997,"date":"2025-02-23T06:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=166997"},"modified":"2025-02-23T08:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T15:19:26","slug":"some-recent-birds-and-critters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/23\/some-recent-birds-and-critters\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Recent Birds And Critters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Occasionally I post a collection of recent photos, some of which may not deserve standalone status on my blog. But I think they have something positive to offer, including collectively as a representation of the types of subjects I’ve been photographing lately.<\/p>\n

Each of the following seven photos was taken in northern Utah in the last 13 days.<\/p>\n

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A Northern Harrier warming up on a frosty morning very soon after sunrise.<\/p>\n

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A Loggerhead Shrike scolding me from his lofty perch.<\/p>\n

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A male Horned Lark in the midst of an enthusiastic rouse. It’s a busy setting, including grass stems in front of the bird, but it’s typical habitat for the species and I like the splash of yellow and his fluffed-up appearance.<\/p>\n

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A shy Green-winged Teal drake on a cloudy day.<\/p>\n

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A coyote with its presumed mate at upper left. These two raced across the road in front of me and then stopped to look back.<\/p>\n

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“AOM<\/a><\/span><\/span>” with his lady on the left. I like the contrasting poses of the two kestrels as the female was about to pass in front of him, just prior to mating.<\/p>\n

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I took so many photos I like of them mating that I haven’t posted before, I wanted to include one more. Here I like the asymmetry of AOM’s wing positions and the female’s topsy-turvy posture with just enough of a head turn to provide a catch light in her eye.<\/p>\n

It may not look like it in many of these photos, but our recent persistently dreary weather has kept me mostly out of the field for a couple of weeks. Beginning the middle of next week that’s supposed to change for the better, so I have reasonable hopes of getting more bird photos in the near future.<\/p>\n

Damn good thing. Cabin fever is setting in quickly<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Late addendum: I just now saw my first house fly of the year (on my bathroom window). Maybe spring is right around the corner. Gotta take the bad with the good I guess.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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