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<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nIt then moved down the fence once again.\u00a0 I didn’t see this bird catch many insects and I suspect it was still honing its hunting skills.<\/p>\n
Some folks don’t like barbed wire perches\u00a0but I’m fine with it if it’s rusty and I also like the rustic old fence posts that are so prevalent in the area.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Mountain Bluebird is very different in many ways from other thrushes.<\/p>\n
\n- few other thrushes are cavity nesters<\/li>\n
- it prefers much more open habitat than other thrushes<\/li>\n
- a higher proportion of its diet consists of insects than most thrushes<\/li>\n
- it\u00a0often hovers while foraging which is atypical of thrushes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In fact, it has been suggested that the Mountain Bluebird resembles a scaled-down version of the American Kestrel more than it does a thrush.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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I often photograph Mountain Bluebirds on my Montana trips but I’ve seldom had the opportunity to work with juveniles. That changed last week when we found a young bird hunting from a fence in early morning light.<\/p>\n
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