{"id":44648,"date":"2016-12-28T06:08:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=44648"},"modified":"2016-12-28T06:08:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:08:03","slug":"a-butter-butt-reprieve-from-the-dreariness-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/28\/a-butter-butt-reprieve-from-the-dreariness-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"A Butter-butt Reprieve From The Dreariness Of The Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not yet tired of cold and snow but this morning I\u00a0felt the need\u00a0for some temporary brightness and color. And Yellow-rumped Warblers were my subjects of choice.<\/p>\n

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Three months ago I spent several days photographing migrating Yellow-rumped Warblers at a park near my home. They were using a tree that hung over a pond as a launching pad to hunt insects buzzing the pond’s surface. There was often a dozen or more warblers in the tree but most of them were usually too far away and\/or buried in branches and twigs. Given the cluttered setting few of my images had clean backgrounds but this one came closer than most.<\/p>\n

This pose demonstrates why\u00a0some folks refer to\u00a0these birds as “butter-butts”.<\/p>\n

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This vertical composition is one of the better shots I was able to get during any of my sessions with these warblers. This bird actually posed for me on the same spot on the branch for\u00a0about 3\u00a0seconds, which in my experience\u00a0is highly unusual for this flitty species. I like the diagonal perch, the head turn and the relatively clean background.<\/p>\n

For photographers who may wonder about my blazing-fast shutter speed, there was two reasons for it:<\/p>\n