{"id":43587,"date":"2016-11-17T06:09:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T13:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=43587"},"modified":"2016-11-17T06:18:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T13:18:16","slug":"a-loggerhead-shrike-and-a-coyote-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/a-loggerhead-shrike-and-a-coyote-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"A Loggerhead Shrike And A Coyote In The Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I feel a little like how this shrike must have felt just over a year ago. We finally have snow on the ground here in Salt Lake City!<\/p>\n

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I welcome the snow but I don’t think this Loggerhead Shrike shared my enthusiasm for it last December on Antelope Island. The bird was all fluffed up to ward off the extreme cold and seemed to gloomily stare out over the frozen landscape.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

Occasionally the shrike would look straight down as if to confirm that there really\u00a0was nothing but that cold white stuff down there (though it may have been just looking for prey).<\/p>\n

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Then it fluffed up until it almost looked like a black and white puffball and resignedly accepted its fate. For some reason these last two images aren’t quite\u00a0as sharp as they should be but because they amused me I decided to keep them anyway.<\/p>\n

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This photo of a coyote taken a little earlier on the same morning gives us a better\u00a0idea of the conditions critters were facing. I don’t remember exactly how cold it was but it was truly frigid and I can almost hear my tires squeaking on the snow. It’s a challenge to “sneak up” on my photo subjects when they’re making that much noise.<\/p>\n

Though we don’t have a lot of it I’m really excited about our snow this morning. It’s been a freakishly warm fall around here and among other things the Great Salt Lake is drying up (it’s surface area has shrunk by approximately 75% since 1988).<\/p>\n

We need all the moisture we can get!<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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This morning I feel a little like how this shrike must have felt just over a year ago. We finally have snow on the ground here in Salt Lake City!<\/p>\n

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