{"id":23291,"date":"2014-04-18T05:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T11:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=23291"},"modified":"2014-04-18T05:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T11:34:52","slug":"a-twice-anomalous-loggerhead-shrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/18\/a-twice-anomalous-loggerhead-shrike\/","title":{"rendered":"A Twice-anomalous Loggerhead Shrike"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two interesting\u00a0things about this Loggerhead Shrike that I thought were worth a closer look.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The first is obvious – a broken wing\u00a0flight feather.\u00a0 I noticed this bird on two different\u00a0mornings last week on Antelope Island.\u00a0 It’s one thing to completely lose a major feather (as in during the molt) but I imagine it’s quite another to have one broken and flopping around\u00a0like this.\u00a0 It must be aggravating and cumbersome to the extreme during flight but this bird seems to be coping with its handicap just fine.\u00a0 I suspect that the feather will break off soon (if it hasn’t already) but these adults don’t begin molting until mid-summer so it’ll be without one of its\u00a0fully functional flight feathers for a long time.<\/p>\n

Another somewhat unusual feature of this image is the double catch-light.\u00a0 This happens fairly often with disturbed water (waves)\u00a0in the foreground because of all the reflections it produces but in this case the only water was behind the bird so I don’t know the cause.\u00a0 The primary catch-light was from the early morning sun but the other may have been caused by almost anything, including\u00a0a reflection off the bumper or windshield of my pickup.<\/p>\n

Sometimes double catch-lights don’t bother me, particularly if they look natural but in this case (to my eye) it doesn’t and I also find it distracting\u00a0so…<\/p>\n

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if I were ever to print the image (I likely won’t) I always have the option to remove it as I’ve done here.<\/p>\n

Obviously this isn’t a great image but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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There are two interesting things about this Loggerhead Shrike that I thought were worth a closer look.<\/p>\n

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