{"id":24040,"date":"2014-05-22T04:55:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T10:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=24040"},"modified":"2014-05-22T04:55:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T10:55:08","slug":"male-loggerhead-shrike-feeding-his-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/22\/male-loggerhead-shrike-feeding-his-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Loggerhead Shrike Feeding His Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Male Loggerhead Shrikes feed their mates beginning with the formation of pair bonds in early spring and such behavior continues throughout the incubation and nestling periods.<\/p>\n

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\u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Two days ago I\u00a0 watched (and photographed) shrike mate-feeding behavior on this perch so yesterday morning when I saw this female patiently waiting on the same perch I\u00a0anticipated the same behavior was about to occur again.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I was right.\u00a0 It wasn’t long before the male flew in with a tasty insect larvae snack.\u00a0 Here he’s about to land on the perch in front of the female.\u00a0 This male has been banded by my friends at the Great Salt Lake Institute (GSLI)\u00a0out of Westminster College (they’re doing a study of how mercury compounds move through the food chain around the Great Salt Lake).<\/p>\n

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\"loggerhead<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0He offered the prize to the female…<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0and she accepted.<\/p>\n

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\"loggerhead<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I thought she might take it to her presumed nestlings but she quickly gobbled it down and soon both birds flew off.<\/p>\n

Because I observed\u00a0the same behavior on the same perch the day before I’m beginning to think of this dead sagebrush branch as some sort of “feeding station”.\u00a0 I’ll post images of the previous feeding episode sometime in the near future.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0 Because I can read some of the band numbers of the male in hugely cropped versions of some of these images I’ve sent one of those photos to GSLI in case that information is meaningful to them.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Male Loggerhead Shrikes feed their mates beginning with the formation of pair bonds in early spring and such behavior continues throughout the incubation and nestling periods.<\/p>\n

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