{"id":27508,"date":"2014-10-23T06:07:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T12:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=27508"},"modified":"2014-10-27T17:37:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T23:37:23","slug":"male-western-kingbird-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/23\/male-western-kingbird-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Western Kingbird In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Note (10\/27\/14, 5:30 pm):\u00a0 Fixing this problem is obviously taking longer than I’d hoped.\u00a0 We think we’re making progress but it’s become very complex and it’s not an easy fix.\u00a0 Hopefully I’ll be up and running normally again very soon (right now I, and others, can comment but I can’t publish a new post).\u00a0 Please hang in there…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Ron<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Note:\u00a0 As I’m sure many of you have become painfully aware, my site has been down for several days with server issues.\u00a0 It looks like we may have come up with a solution but for complicated reasons it may be several more days before I can publish any new posts, even though my blog is now running again (comments made to\u00a0previous posts are no problem).\u00a0 Please bear with me…<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Until this past spring my cupboard was largely\u00a0bare of flight shots of Western Kingbirds.\u00a0 But this male gave me plenty of opportunity to practice my skills\u00a0as he encouraged his mate at nest-building.<\/p>\n

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\"western<\/p>\n

1\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM, canvas added for composition,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Only female Western Kingbirds actually construct the nest but this male would often perch in the vicinity of the nest and wait for her to return with nesting material.\u00a0 When she did he would sometimes lift off and fly just over the nest in apparent encouragement and that’s what he was doing here.\u00a0 I enjoy seeing the dorsal plumage in this shot even though we can’t see any of those wonderful ventral yellows.<\/p>\n

I’m a little surprised that the right wing-tip isn’t sharper.\u00a0 With a shutter speed of 1\/4000 sec and without my tc at f\/7.1 I’d expect it to be a little more crisp.\u00a0 I don’t have any problem with a little apparent motion blur at the wing-tip in a flight shot like this but I did notice it and couldn’t help wondering why.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0 I’m having server problems this morning so access to my blog has been intermittent.\u00a0 I apologize.\u00a0 They’re “working on it”.\u00a0\u00a0 Grrrr….<\/em><\/p>\n

Note #2:\u00a0 Ok, things are finally up and running again (at about 5:30 pm MST)\u00a0after being down for nearly the entire day.\u00a0 Sure hope it lasts…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until this past spring my cupboard was largely bare of flight shots of Western Kingbirds. But this male gave me plenty of opportunity to practice my skills as he encouraged his mate at nest-building.<\/p>\n

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