{"id":47521,"date":"2017-04-15T05:28:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T11:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=47521"},"modified":"2017-04-15T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T19:04:48","slug":"bullocks-orioles-in-my-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/15\/bullocks-orioles-in-my-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullock’s Orioles In My Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"

These images were taken very early in my bird photography career. In late May of 2008 I’d only had my 500mm f\/4 lens\u00a0for about a year and I was\u00a0still learning how to use it to its potential. So I’d often set it up on a tripod in my back yard and photograph yard birds for practice (believe me, I needed it). Mostly I was shooting common species like\u00a0House Finches,\u00a0House Sparrows, American Goldfinches, American Robins and Mourning Doves but occasionally something “special” would show up.<\/p>\n

On this day, 5\/24\/08, it was three Bullock’s Orioles.<\/p>\n

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1\/250, f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 40D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc<\/em><\/p>\n

I believe this one was a juvenile (first year) female. It was midafternoon and all three birds were hanging out in my densely shaded\u00a0grapevines so I had very little shutter speed\u00a0and many of my images were soft. Another problem was getting clear, unobscured looks at them but occasionally they’d land on a couple of bare vines that gave me a chance at relatively clean shots.<\/p>\n

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1\/320, f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 40D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc<\/em><\/p>\n

I believe this bird to be a juvenile male but the black spot on the throat confuses me a little. It’s my understanding that females should have no black there at all and by this age young males should have a completely black throat. So it would be appreciated if someone can enlighten me on the age and sex of these two birds.<\/p>\n

It’s even possible that these first two birds are the same individual. I just don’t remember…<\/p>\n

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1\/320, f\/8, ISO 500, Canon 40D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc<\/em><\/p>\n

And this is the spectacular adult male. I was quite close to this bird\u00a0so I had limited\u00a0composition options, thus the squarish crop. It would have been nice to have had\u00a0more depth of field to get the tail sharp but at this shutter speed I was lucky that anything was\u00a0sharp on this twitchy bird.<\/p>\n

These images were taken so long ago that I don’t recall many of the circumstances but it’s entirely possible that these birds were in my yard after nectar in my hummingbird feeder. For that reason I haven’t included my usual “not baited, set up or called in” with my image techs. In later years I deliberately put nectar out specifically for orioles but when they first started showing up they were an unexpected and delightful surprise.<\/p>\n

I very rarely post yard birds on my blog but when I ran across these images last night during a stroll down memory lane I decided to make an exception. I hope\u00a0readers enjoy them as much as I do.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Three beautiful backyard visitors.<\/p>\n

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