{"id":16770,"date":"2013-07-11T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=16770"},"modified":"2013-07-10T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T23:32:07","slug":"horned-lark-on-mullein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/11\/horned-lark-on-mullein\/","title":{"rendered":"Horned Lark On Mullein"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past several weeks Antelope Island has been awash in the glorious yellows of moth mullein.\u00a0 It doesn’t cover the entire island but there are areas where entire hillsides\u00a0have been\u00a0festooned in mullein yellow.<\/p>\n

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Here the slopes below Buffalo Point are covered with a carpet of mullein.<\/p>\n

Every time we pass such an area we drool over the possibility of photographing a bird perched atop mullein as it can make\u00a0such an attractive setting.\u00a0 But it just doesn’t happen.\u00a0 For some reason the myriad Horned Larks,\u00a0 Western Meadowlarks,\u00a0 Sage Thrashers, Lark Sparrows and several other songbird species seem to avoid mullein as a perch, almost without exception.<\/p>\n

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But six\u00a0days ago\u00a0days ago we were pleasantly surprised when this Male Horned Lark flew up from the edge of the road and landed on mullein.\u00a0 And then it even let us get close and began to sing its soft, melodious tune.\u00a0 I enjoy this elevated perch for a Horned Lark because they’re typically perched on low rocks (or scurrying around in the grass).<\/p>\n

True, the mullein blossoms hadn’t completely opened yet so they weren’t in their full glory but at least it was a mullein perch.<\/p>\n

The downside of so much mullein this year is that the dried stalks last for many months and they’re so thick that they’ll obstruct most anything we try to photograph on the ground.\u00a0\u00a0 So I likely won’t be posting many coyote shots for a while…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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For the past several weeks Antelope Island has been awash in the glorious yellows of moth mullein. It doesn’t cover the entire island but there are areas where entire hillsides have been festooned in mullein yellow.<\/p>\n

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