{"id":38967,"date":"2016-04-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=38967"},"modified":"2016-04-20T19:12:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:12:40","slug":"sage-thrasher-bilateral-wing-display-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/21\/sage-thrasher-bilateral-wing-display-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage Thrasher Bilateral Wing Display"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the bird species\u00a0I typically photograph the courtship displays of Sage Thrashers are unique.\u00a0These displays don’t last\u00a0for long in the spring and this year I was beginning to think I would miss getting any decent images of them performing\u00a0but yesterday morning on Antelope Island this bird saved my bacon.<\/p>\n

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\"sage1\/6400, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,<\/strong> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

While displaying these thrashers raise one or both wings and flutter them for several seconds while singing<\/a> almost continually. Usually they have their back to me or are too far away when they do it but this bird (presumably a male) apparently forgot about his role as a difficult photo subject and performed in good light and in profile with a graded background that I like. The sagebrush setting is a little cluttered but I’ll take it.<\/p>\n

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\"sage1\/8000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,<\/strong> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

After a short time “he” moved forward a little\u00a0on the sagebrush and performed again.<\/p>\n

I can’t believe the shutter speed I got for these two images. They were both taken before 9 AM so the light wasn’t particularly bright and I was going by the seat of my pants without checking settings for fear of missing the display. In hindsight I wish I’d had more depth of field to get a little more of the sagebrush sharp but I really don’t think it would have made much difference.<\/p>\n

But at these shutter speeds\u00a0there sure isn’t any motion blur…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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For the bird species I typically photograph the courtship displays of Sage Thrashers are unique.<\/p>\n

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