{"id":21975,"date":"2014-02-08T06:45:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T13:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=21975"},"modified":"2014-02-08T06:46:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T13:46:58","slug":"cliff-swallow-in-flight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/08\/cliff-swallow-in-flight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Swallow In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swallow\u00a0flight shots may be my most challenging subject overall.\u00a0 Their flight patterns are fast and erratic and it’s very difficult to get light under their wings.<\/p>\n

For ethical reasons I do very little nest photography but I occasionally make an exception for communally nesting swallows whose nest colonies are very near human activity so they are much less likely to be disturbed.\u00a0 This Cliff Swallow and many others of its kind\u00a0were nesting under a pavilion in a parking lot at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge\u00a0and were acclimated to vehicles and fishermen on foot.<\/p>\n

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

1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

My best chance was to catch a bird flaring or hovering\u00a0as it came into the nest.\u00a0\u00a0 I’d tried it before but could never get light under\u00a0the wings so this particular morning I made a point of getting there very early when the sun was quite low as it came up over the mountains.\u00a0 Problem solved.<\/p>\n

The downside to this strategy is that this close to the nests there are usually many other birds hovering in the background and I had to remove bits of three swallows from the corners of this shot.\u00a0 That’s something I really <\/em>don’t like to do but to my mind full disclosure is the next best thing…<\/p>\n

Posting a\u00a0swallow in early February?\u00a0 Yes, it’s something I needed to do\u00a0as I’m truly ready for spring.\u00a0 We were supposed to get more snow last night but when I got up at 5 AM it was 43 degrees F. and had rained all night so what snow we had is now gone.\u00a0 And that got me to\u00a0thinking of\u00a0spring birds.<\/p>\n

Prematurely, I’m afraid…<\/p>\n

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

Swallow flight shots may be my most challenging subject overall. Their flight patterns are fast and erratic and it’s very difficult to get light under their wings.<\/p>\n

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