{"id":41356,"date":"2016-08-09T05:07:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T11:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=41356"},"modified":"2016-08-09T05:26:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T11:26:33","slug":"snowy-egrets-in-flight-and-a-long-eared-owl-at-bear-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/09\/snowy-egrets-in-flight-and-a-long-eared-owl-at-bear-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Egrets In Flight (and a Long-eared Owl at Bear River)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t post Snowy Egrets very often. Maybe that’s because they’re such a difficult subject to expose properly.<\/p>\n

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\"snowy<\/p>\n

1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 400, Canon 7D,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two days ago I spent some time photographing them in flight\u00a0at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and I screwed up the exposure in lots of those shots. With changing light on a bright white bird and a background that alternated between deep shade and bright sunlight I really gave the dials and buttons on my camera a workout. Here the Promontory Mountains form part of the background and I like the way they break up the plain blue sky.<\/p>\n

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\"snowy<\/p>\n

1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

When\u00a0coming in\u00a0for a landing they typically dangle those trademark “golden slippers” which are so distinctive of\u00a0this species.<\/p>\n

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\"snowy<\/p>\n

1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Something a little\u00a0unusual about this image caught my eye – do you see it?<\/p>\n

At first I couldn’t figure out why the end of the right wing is shaded – given the position of the sun it shouldn’t be. The only explanation I can come up with is that there must have been another bird in flight somewhere above the egret.<\/p>\n

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I include this last image for documentary purposes only – the\u00a0owl was far away, partially buried in vegetation\u00a0and pretty scruffy looking.<\/p>\n

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\"long-eared<\/p>\n

In all my years of photographing birds at Bear River I’ve never seen a Long-eared Owl out there until two days ago. I thought I’d include this image as a heads-up so\u00a0locals can keep an eye out for this bird as it may stick around for a while.\u00a0There’s a few LE Owls on nearby Antelope Island and I wondered if this bird was chased off the island by the recent fire and smoke.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I don’t post Snowy Egrets very often. Maybe that’s because they’re such a difficult subject to expose properly.<\/p>\n

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