{"id":6526,"date":"2012-07-10T16:31:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2012-09-02T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T19:02:27","slug":"juvenile-marsh-wren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/juvenile-marsh-wren\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Marsh Wren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I normally have difficulty getting close enough to Marsh Wrens for them to be large enough in the frame to show good detail.\u00a0 They’re\u00a0very small, incredibly\u00a0flitty and they inhabit busy backgrounds – all challenges for the photographer.\u00a0 Last year I had some success with adults but juveniles have always eluded me.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6527\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/juvenile-marsh-wren\/marsh-wren-5512-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/marsh-wren-5512-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,713\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1341821255","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.000625","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"marsh wren 5512 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/marsh-wren-5512-ron-dudley-300x237.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/marsh-wren-5512-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6527\" title=\"marsh wren 5512 ron dudley\" src=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/marsh-wren-5512-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"marsh wren 5512 ron dudley\" width=\"900\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/marsh-wren-5512-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/marsh-wren-5512-ron-dudley-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/marsh-wren-5512-ron-dudley-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/marsh-wren-5512-ron-dudley-400x316.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But yesterday at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge I found this cooperative juvenile in good light and the background reeds were far enough away from the bird to soften nicely.\u00a0 And I didn’t even get shadows from the reeds falling on the bird which is unusual for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I love these feisty, raucous little birds and they have\u00a0unbelievable energy.\u00a0 They scurry from perch to perch and sing almost continually, day and night during breeding season, in their bid for reproductive success.\u00a0It makes me tired just to contemplate such a frenzied existence.\u00a0 Think I’ll take a nap…<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally have difficulty getting close enough to Marsh Wrens for them to be large enough in the frame to show good detail.\u00a0 They’re\u00a0very small, incredibly\u00a0flitty and they inhabit busy backgrounds – all challenges for the photographer.\u00a0 Last year I had some success with adults but juveniles have always eluded me. 1\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc But yesterday at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge I found this cooperative juvenile in good light and the background reeds were far enough away from the bird to soften nicely.\u00a0 And I didn’t even get shadows from the reeds falling on the bird which is unusual for me. I love these feisty, raucous little birds and they have\u00a0unbelievable energy.\u00a0 They scurry from perch to perch and sing almost continually, day and night during breeding season, in their bid for reproductive success.\u00a0It makes me tired just to contemplate such a frenzied existence.\u00a0 Think I’ll take a nap… Ron<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/juvenile-marsh-wren\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[334,396],"tags":[49,766,768,767,215],"class_list":["post-6526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-marsh-wrens","tag-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","tag-cistothorus","tag-immature","tag-juevnile","tag-marsh-wren"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-1Hg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}