{"id":27418,"date":"2014-10-20T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=27418"},"modified":"2014-10-20T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T12:00:09","slug":"an-osprey-pirouette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/20\/an-osprey-pirouette\/","title":{"rendered":"An Osprey Pirouette"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Osprey seemed stiff and less confident of her agility immediately after being relieved from many hours of nesting duty.<\/p>\n

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\"osprey<\/p>\n

\u00a01\/2000, f\/5, ISO 800, Canon 7D, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, 2 wires removed,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

This female (darker necklace and larger size\u00a0than the male) and her mate were incubating eggs on a nest platform at Flaming Gorge, Utah in May of 2013.\u00a0 She had just left the nest (seen out of focus at lower right) after being relieved by the male after a long, cold night on the eggs and she was obviously warming herself in the very early\u00a0sunlight.<\/p>\n

A few moments later she decided to turn on the post to present her darker dorsal feathers (which absorb heat better) to the sun but she was apparently a little “stove up” from all that immobility in the cold so she used her wings for stabilization as she turned and I enjoyed some of the images of the process.<\/p>\n

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\"osprey<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/5, ISO 800, Canon 7D, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, 2 wires removed,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like all well-performed pirouettes this one (at least in the beginning) was done on one foot.<\/p>\n

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\"osprey<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/5, ISO 800, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, 2 wires removed,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0She wasn’t really spinning as she turned but instead was very carefully going from one foot to another as she spread her wings for balance in the very warm light.<\/p>\n

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\"osprey<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/5, ISO 800, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, 2 wires removed,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0She seemed very cognizant\u00a0of how far down it was if she should slip.<\/p>\n

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\"osprey<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/5, ISO 800, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, 2 wires removed,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Her\u00a0wings weren’t moving very fast, just fast enough to provide some additional stability…<\/p>\n

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\"osprey<\/p>\n

1\/2000, f\/5, ISO 800, Canon 7D, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, 2 wires removed,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0during the precarious maneuver.<\/p>\n

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\"osprey<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/800, f\/4, ISO 800, Canon 7D, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, 2 wires removed,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just as she began a wing stretch to limber up a little, the sun went behind a cloud and shaded the mountain in the background which really had a dramatic effect back there when compared to the previous images.\u00a0 Soon after she took off to do a little fishing in “The Gorge”.<\/p>\n

In hindsight I wish\u00a0I’d been at ISO 640 instead of 800 because there’s a little noise in the background of these images and I think I’d have still had enough shutter speed for this kind of activity at 640 but I was set up for take-off shots and the Osprey had\u00a0failed to inform me of her intentions.<\/p>\n

Still, I like some of these poses and found the behavior interesting.<\/p>\n

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

This female Osprey seemed stiff and less confident of her agility immediately after being relieved from many hours of nesting duty.<\/p>\n

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