{"id":35410,"date":"2015-11-27T05:04:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=35410"},"modified":"2015-11-27T05:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:30:39","slug":"white-crowned-sparrows-juvenile-and-adult-some-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/27\/white-crowned-sparrows-juvenile-and-adult-some-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"White-crowned Sparrows – Juvenile and Adult (some in the snow)"},"content":{"rendered":"

White-crowned Sparrows are often described as “elegant”, especially as adults and I would have to agree. That’s one of the reasons they’re probably the best studied of all\u00a0songbirds and one of the best studied of all nongame bird species. They’re attractive for ornithologists to study for other reasons too – they’re widely distributed, abundant and conspicuous. And they thrive in captivity on a simple diet.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve had a lot of fun with them the last few days at Farmington MBR and Antelope Island.\u00a0I found this\u00a0juvenile (brown head-stripes rather than black) four days ago as it was perched in a wild rose at Farmington. I like the rose hips in the image but knew I needed more depth of field to get them all sharp but that would cut down my shutter speed – not a good thing for photographing a twitchy little bird.<\/p>\n

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1\/1600, f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I compromised by going only to f\/8. That gave me a little more DOF and still maintained enough shutter speed\u00a0for a perched bird in most situations. But then the young bird perked up and assumed a vertical pose\u00a0when something to my right caught its attention. At that point I thought “oh-oh, it’s going to take off and I don’t have enough SS to get the wings sharp”.<\/p>\n

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1\/1600, f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

And I was right. But I still like the shot, largely because of the tilt of the head and the outstretched legs.<\/p>\n

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1\/800, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

But yesterday on Antelope Island conditions were much different. It had snowed during the night so most everything was covered in white fluff and I enjoyed that addition to the setting despite the often cloudy conditions and poor light. This is an adult of the species (black head-stripes rather than the brown of the juvenile) and it and others were cavorting in the snow-covered bushes near White Rock Bay.<\/p>\n

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1\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here the lighting was challenging because there was sun on the hill in the background but the bird was shaded. I thought this head angle really showed off those elegant head stripes.<\/p>\n

I love photographing White-crowned Sparrows, partly because they’re often found in mixed flocks of juveniles and adults that are so\u00a0different from each other\u00a0so it’s\u00a0almost like shooting two different species from the same vantage point\u00a0at the same time.<\/p>\n

I’ll take a “twofer” any time I can get it…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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White-crowned Sparrows are often described as “elegant”, especially as adults and I would have to agree.<\/p>\n

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