{"id":57368,"date":"2018-03-17T07:13:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T13:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=57368"},"modified":"2018-03-17T08:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T14:35:30","slug":"displaying-sage-thrasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/17\/displaying-sage-thrasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Displaying Sage Thrasher"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0relatively\u00a0quick post\u00a0this morning, for reasons that will be come evident.<\/p>\n

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1\/8000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II US, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I photographed this\u00a0presumed male\u00a0Sage Thrasher on April 20, 2016 on Antelope Island. He was performing what’s known as the bilateral wing display as part of his courtship ritual. They’re usually quite shy while they’re doing it and this was the closest I’ve ever been to a performance like this in good light (I\u00a0didn’t even have my teleconverter attached).<\/p>\n

I caught the bird in its namesake habitat (sagebrush), his beak is open as he sings, he’s sharp, I love the pose\u00a0and\u00a0I find the bi-colored background appealing. Some of the out-of-focus sagebrush stems are a bit of a bother but for me they don’t detract much. I’m\u00a0a little\u00a0embarrassed by the\u00a0exorbitant shutter speed but I was so excited to be this close to a displaying thrasher I just fired off some shots\u00a0without checking my camera settings for fear the bird would fly off before I could get any photos.<\/p>\n

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On an unrelated note: Veteran Feathered\u00a0Photography readers in particular deserve an explanation as to why I’ve been posting more older photos than usual lately (this one is older but it’s new to my blog). There’s several reasons for it, including:<\/p>\n