{"id":71288,"date":"2019-04-27T05:17:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T11:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=71288"},"modified":"2019-04-27T05:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T11:17:50","slug":"vesper-sparrow-perched-and-taking-off-from-sagebrush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/27\/vesper-sparrow-perched-and-taking-off-from-sagebrush\/","title":{"rendered":"Vesper Sparrow Perched And Taking Off From Sagebrush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first takeoff or flight shot of this little ground-skulker.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"71289\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/27\/vesper-sparrow-perched-and-taking-off-from-sagebrush\/vesper-sparrow-2320-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2320-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1556183283","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.00025","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"vesper sparrow 2320 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2320-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2320-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-71289 size-full\" title=\"vesper-sparrow-2320-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2320-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2320-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2320-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2320-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2320-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2320-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don’t have many opportunities with Vesper Sparrows so I was happy to get this one in my viewfinder two days ago on Antelope Island. Even though “he” allowed me quite a few shots I was lucky to get any of them sharp because those damned biting gnats have come out in full force on the island so I spent at least as much time swatting and cursing them as I did concentrating on the sparrow. Even now, two days later, the top of my poor bald head in particular is sore as hell when I touch it and I don’t react to their bites nearly as severely as many people do.<\/p>\n<p>I have a soft spot for sage as a perch for birds in my photos but my real goal was to get takeoff or flight shots as the sparrow took off. These little sparrows are extremely fast when they launch so I knew I had to get lucky. This time I succeeded, but only partially.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"71292\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/27\/vesper-sparrow-perched-and-taking-off-from-sagebrush\/vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1556183288","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.0002","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"vesper sparrow 2334b ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-71292 size-full\" title=\"vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/p>\n<p>I caught him just as he was leaving his perch. Amazingly he was still in the frame when my shutter clicked, I didn’t clip any body parts and I even had enough room for composition in the direction he was flying but his wing position isn’t one of my favorites. For my tastes the only positive resulting from this wing position is the interesting shadows his flight feathers threw on his body.<\/p>\n<p>I think they look a little like ribs…<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first takeoff or flight shot of this little ground-skulker.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/27\/vesper-sparrow-perched-and-taking-off-from-sagebrush\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71292,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,334,2010],"tags":[31,2026,146,2011,2738,497],"class_list":["post-71288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island","category-birds","category-vesper-sparrows","tag-antelope-island-2","tag-biting-gnats","tag-flight","tag-pooecetes-gramineus","tag-takeoff","tag-vesper-sparrow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vesper-sparrow-2334b-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-ixO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71288","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=71288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}