{"id":3399,"date":"2011-12-09T15:05:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2011-12-22T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T23:27:19","slug":"just-a-shot-that-i-like-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/09\/just-a-shot-that-i-like-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Shot That I Like… #7 – Ring-necked Pheasant Roosting In Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many folks think of Ring-necked Pheasants as strictly ground dwelling birds but that’s simply not the case.\u00a0 These pheasants\u00a0regularly roost in trees at night and the following morning they will often be active in the roost tree for up to an hour before descending to the ground for the rest of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Virtually every time I’ve seen these birds in trees it’s been on very cold, sunny mornings so I’ve always had the impression that they’re sunning themselves to warm up a bit.\u00a0 Usually they flush to the ground for cover before I can get close enough for quality photos but this cooperative male apparently decided that his chill was more of a threat to him than I was.\u00a0\u00a0He let me shoot away from close range for quite a while even though he was perhaps 20′ up in the tree and\u00a0on a very exposed branch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Long-tailed birds like pheasants and magpies can present difficult compositional problems when cropping for presentation but I though this\u00a0vertical crop worked out\u00a0well with him on the diagonal perch.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Many folks think of Ring-necked Pheasants as strictly ground dwelling birds but that’s simply not the case.\u00a0 These pheasants\u00a0regularly roost in trees at night and the following morning they will often be active in the roost tree for up to an hour before descending to the ground for the rest of the day.\u00a0   1\/800, f\/8, ISO 800, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc Virtually every time I’ve seen these birds in trees it’s been on very cold, sunny mornings so I’ve always had the impression that they’re sunning themselves to warm up a bit.\u00a0 Usually they flush to the ground for cover before I can get close enough for quality photos but this cooperative male apparently decided that his chill was more of a threat to him than I was.\u00a0\u00a0He let me shoot away from close range for quite a while even though he was perhaps 20′ up in the tree and\u00a0on a very exposed branch.\u00a0 Long-tailed birds like pheasants and magpies can present difficult compositional problems when cropping for presentation but I though this\u00a0vertical crop worked out\u00a0well with him on the diagonal perch.\u00a0 \u00a0 Ron  <\/p>\n

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