{"id":62902,"date":"2018-09-01T05:52:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=62902"},"modified":"2018-09-01T05:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:52:20","slug":"yellow-warbler-jumping-to-a-new-perch-in-pursuit-of-berries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/01\/yellow-warbler-jumping-to-a-new-perch-in-pursuit-of-berries\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Warbler Jumping To A New Perch In Pursuit Of Berries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup, another Yellow Warbler. But yesterday morning I caught one doing something kind of\u00a0interesting.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, 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

Though I don’t remember seeing it actually eating, based on its shiny bill it was probably eating serviceberries rather than insects. The diet of this species is primarily insects but they will take advantage of available fruit and I’ve photographed them doing it.<\/p>\n

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When it stretched its neck to look forward I figured it might be about to go to a new perch so I fired off a\u00a0quick burst to see if I’d get lucky with an interesting\u00a0photo or two.\u00a0When this shot was taken it was choosing (or had just chosen) its intended landing spot to the right.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, 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

In the same photo as the previous one I’ve marked\u00a0the chosen\u00a0spot with a red arrow. It wasn’t going far but it had to somehow get over that clump of leaves directly in front of the bird. I figured it would use its wings but it didn’t.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/5.6, 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

As far as I could tell from my photos the bird simply jumped. Here one foot is reaching out in anticipation of landing but the other one is tucked up into the feathers so\u00a0the foot\u00a0will clear the leaves.<\/p>\n

The last photo in the series (below) is a mess because the bird is very soft. But I had to include it to finish telling the story.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, 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

The warbler nailed the landing of the jump with only brief help from a single wing, probably to finish rotating its body in order\u00a0to land at a right angle on the perch.<\/p>\n

I know why the warbler is soft. The new perch isn’t on the same plane as the old one (it’s closer to us)\u00a0and my focus point was still locked onto the leaves at left. I added extra sharpening to the image to try to help with the sharpness of the bird but as usual when\u00a0something is this soft in the first place it helped very little.<\/p>\n

Yes, this series was taken at the same old\u00a0serviceberry bush\u00a0where I’ve been photographing various species for weeks. I was quite wary about stopping there\u00a0because of the\u00a0dead and very stinky\u00a0porcupine along the side of the road that I reported on previously. But\u00a0by yesterday\u00a0morning enough time had passed that decomposition had slowed down to the point that I only got a few brief\u00a0whiffs of that ghastly, sickening\u00a0smell.<\/p>\n

This time the smell was so slight I didn’t think twice about eating my chocolate donut (I really do only eat them on mornings I go shooting).\u00a0I actually had it in my hand and there were probably crumbs on my face\u00a0when a couple of good friends and blog followers drove up. They’d seen my\u00a0earlier blog post about the rancid\u00a0porkie\u00a0and they\u00a0noticed and mentioned both the porcupine next to my right front tire\u00a0and the donut I was eating.<\/p>\n

If I’m not careful I’ll have the same reputation for donuts as cops, deserved or not in both cases.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Yup, another Yellow Warbler. But yesterday morning I caught one doing something kind of interesting.<\/p>\n

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