{"id":30482,"date":"2015-04-04T05:32:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T11:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=30482"},"modified":"2015-04-04T05:44:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T11:44:33","slug":"peachy-female-red-winged-blackbird-and-my-foy-swainsons-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/04\/peachy-female-red-winged-blackbird-and-my-foy-swainsons-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Peachy Female Red-winged Blackbird (and my FOY Swainson’s Hawk)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s post is part of my continuing effort to occasionally\u00a0feature the more\u00a0“common” species.<\/p>\n

Male Red-winged Blackbirds are so distinctive in color and pattern as to be instantly recognizable by most but the mottled brown female often goes unrecognized or even mistaken for a large sparrow.<\/p>\n

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\"red-winged\u00a01\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

I found this one yesterday morning at Bear River MBR and photographed her for several minutes as she hopped from one cattail perch to another. I like the demure pose and the similar peachy\u00a0colors in the bird’s face, cattail and background.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a01\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Males often perform their “song spread” display almost continuously in the springtime but females do it too, though their performance is less exaggerated than that of the male. Here the female is singing and displaying and I like the somewhat unconventional pose and the even light on the entire underside of the bird.<\/p>\n

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\"swainson's<\/p>\n

Regular readers may recall how much I look forward to the return of the Swainson’s Hawks in the spring after they’ve spent the winter in South America.\u00a0I photographed my FOY (first of year) Swainson’s yesterday near Corinne, Utah and though it’s a crappy image for several very obvious reasons I decided to include it for documentary purposes.<\/p>\n

I can now look forward to photographing Swainson’s Hawks for many months. I’ve missed them a lot during their absence.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

PS – I can’t help but note the visual irony of the\u00a0“Pennington 92” stamped on the wood of the pole’s crossbeam at lower left\u00a0because it so resembles a typical image\u00a0copyright watermark that I always include on my photos. It doesn’t take much to amuse me…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Male Red-winged Blackbirds are so distinctive in color and pattern as to be instantly recognizable by most but the mottled brown female often goes unrecognized or even mistaken for a large sparrow.<\/p>\n

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