{"id":50366,"date":"2017-08-01T04:29:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T10:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=50366"},"modified":"2017-08-04T05:45:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:45:20","slug":"a-wet-yellow-warbler-fledgling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/01\/a-wet-yellow-warbler-fledgling\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wet Yellow Warbler Fledgling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photographing small songbirds flitting around in dense foliage is a different game than I usually play. Typically I’m cussing larger birds who are out in the open but\u00a0won’t let me get close. But yesterday morning in the mountains of Morgan County I was cursing\u00a0Yellow Warblers\u00a0who came in close (sometimes too close) but stayed hidden in shadows and behind leaves and used a bevy of other tricks to ruin my shots.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, 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><\/p>\n

I\u00a0watched this fledgling for a while but had never been able to get a clear shot when I saw it pop back up into the bush and it was obviously very wet. There’s a stream close by and it\u00a0had apparently\u00a0been down there bathing. By the time this photo was taken it had partially dried off but it continued to groom and shake its feathers to dry them.<\/p>\n

This is one of those times when I’m glad I had a very\u00a0fast shutter speed. This may look like a static pose but in reality the bird was fluttering its wings very fast as it tried to dry off and the individual flight\u00a0feathers\u00a0are still quite sharp. There’s nothing wrong with motion blur for behaviors like this (in fact some folks prefer it for its implied motion) but my personal preference has always been to get all of the bird as sharp as possible.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/7.1, 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><\/p>\n

A few minutes later the youngster was mostly dry (though still disheveled) when one of its parents came in with food. Part of the head of the adult can actually be seen at left but of course there’s a leaf in front of its face. But I’m mostly OK with that because I think the begging pose of the fledgling is the star attraction in this photo – good look at the adult’s head or not.<\/p>\n

I’ll likely be posting more photos of these warblers sometime soon because I did get some interesting portraits and feeding shots.<\/p>\n

And by the way, just to be clear, when I cuss in these situations I’m not really bad-mouthing the birds. I’m just upset with circumstances that made me miss the shot. I actually often thank the birds as I drive away, just as I did this time.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Photographing small songbirds flitting around in dense foliage is a different game than I usually play. <\/p>\n

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