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1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nI’m often surprised by how often birds repeatedly perch in the same spot. I probably shouldn’t be but I am.<\/p>\n
Some readers may remember this image of a juvenile White-crowned Sparrow perched in a Wild Rose bush\u00a0I posted several weeks ago. The bush is huge with many hundreds of available perches but most of them are deeply buried within the plant where I can see little of any bird perching there. So I was pleased to catch this one out in the open despite the sidelight and the soft rose hip.<\/p>\n
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Three days ago (almost a month after the previous image was taken) I photographed this juvenile White-crowned Sparrow on the same spot on the branch. I wasn’t even aware that both birds were on the same perch until I recognized the out-of-focus rose hip while culling images two days ago. I like this image much better than the first one because the light angle is better and I simply adore the pose of the\u00a0sparrow.<\/p>\n Much ado about nothing perhaps but I found it interesting to compare the two birds on the same perch, especially because one is a juvenile and the other an adult.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Here’s an adult in the same Wild Rose bush. This is an example of the compromises I often have to make while cropping images. In this version I cropped the image to highlight the way the branches frame the sparrow but in doing so the bird has to be centered in the composition which isn’t ideal.<\/p>\n But I do have another option.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n In this version of the same image the sparrow is no longer centered and it’s larger in the frame so it shows more detail but I’ve lost some of the branches framing the bird.<\/p>\n I’m undecided which composition I like best so if any of my readers have a preference I’d love to hear about it.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I had a Yogi Berra moment while I was culling images.<\/p>\n![\"white-crowned-sparrow-2108b-ron-dudley\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/white-crowned-sparrow-2108b-ron-dudley.jpg\")
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