{"id":28199,"date":"2014-11-29T17:48:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T00:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=28199"},"modified":"2014-11-29T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T00:48:44","slug":"western-meadowlark-acting-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/29\/western-meadowlark-acting-silly\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Meadowlark Acting Silly"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took many, many shots of this crazy, mixed up Meadowlark this past spring and I posted a few of them previously.\u00a0 This is another one that I like.<\/p>\n

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This was one goofy bird.\u00a0 I photographed it for about a minute as it “dry bathed” high on a rabbitbrush perch on Antelope Island.\u00a0 It hadn’t been raining and the meadowlark wasn’t wet (or anywhere near dust for dust-bathing)\u00a0but I swear it thought it was bathing in water.\u00a0 All of its actions were precisely as if it were doing just that, sans the water.\u00a0\u00a0 It repeatedly put its head down, as if in water, and then\u00a0ruffled and shook its feathers\u00a0vigorously.\u00a0 I’ve spent many hours watching meadowlarks and haven’t seen this behavior, except in water or in wet grass, before or since (there are\u00a0more photos and a slightly more detailed description of the behavior here<\/a> if you have the interest).<\/p>\n

I’m posting this image because the light and\u00a0pose appeal to me and I really like how my lens renders the bokeh of backgrounds like this.\u00a0 For my tastes this background enhances the\u00a0image significantly.\u00a0 And I thought my Canon 7D handled the noise\u00a0quite well at ISO 800 (no noise reduction was applied and the image has been cropped to 50% of the original image).<\/p>\n

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

I took many, many shots of this crazy, mixed up Meadowlark this past spring and I posted a few of them previously. This is another one that I like.<\/p>\n

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