{"id":18361,"date":"2013-09-13T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=18361"},"modified":"2013-09-13T07:14:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T13:14:40","slug":"cedar-waxwing-in-my-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/cedar-waxwing-in-my-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Waxwing In My Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

We arrived home\u00a0from our Montana trip yesterday afternoon, earlier\u00a0than planned due to inclement weather.\u00a0 Cloudy, wet weather and muddy roads just don’t mix well with bird photography.\u00a0 We had two nice days of shooting, a few cooperative birds and experienced some wonderful new country (something we try to do every trip).<\/p>\n

On Wednesday\u00a0evening we stopped on a gravel road overlooking a lake\u00a0with a steep drop off to my left where we scoped the trees growing from the bottom of the slope for birds.\u00a0 There was a small clump of berry bushes growing within a few feet of my pickup which we mostly ignored, figuring we were too close to them for any birds to be there (we were, of course, shooting out my pickup window).<\/p>\n

Suddenly this Cedar Waxwing swooped in and landed right in our faces to feast on the berries.<\/p>\n

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\"cedar<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a01\/1250, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 100-400 @300 mm, natural light, 2 leaf tips poking into frame removed<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I was much<\/em> too close for my default 500 mm lens, even without the teleconverter attached\u00a0so I quickly grabbed one of my other cameras with the 100-400 mm lens.\u00a0\u00a0 But I couldn’t focus on the bird!\u00a0 My lens limiter was turned on and I was so close that even with that shorter lens\u00a0it couldn’t focus at that focal distance.\u00a0 I seldom use that lens and almost never need to\u00a0turn the limiter off so it took me long enough to figure out what was going on that I missed quite a few nice opportunities.\u00a0 I hate missing shots due to operator error!<\/p>\n

But eventually I did get a few.\u00a0\u00a0 Here the bird has picked off one of the berries which it is about to swallow.\u00a0 There was a feather in disarray and sticking out of the\u00a0right side of the neck, which is what you see behind the crest.<\/p>\n

I’m curious about these orange berries.\u00a0 Does anyone know the species of bush?\u00a0 (image taken in southwest Montana at an elevation of about 6800′)<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday morning we stopped on a gravel road overlooking a lake with a steep drop off to my left where we scoped the trees growing from the bottom of the slope for birds. There was a small clump of berry bushes growing within a few feet of my pickup which we mostly ignored, figuring we were too close to them for any birds to be there.<\/p>\n

Suddenly this Cedar Waxwing swooped in and landed right in our faces to feast on the berries.<\/p>\n

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