{"id":72143,"date":"2019-05-26T05:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T11:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=72143"},"modified":"2019-05-26T07:31:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T13:31:27","slug":"yellow-warbler-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/26\/yellow-warbler-takeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Warbler Takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

A shot like this\u00a0has been one of the most difficult for me to get.<\/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

I’ve been trying to get a takeoff or flight shot of a warbler I like for a while now. I’ve struck out many hundreds of times so you can imagine how happy I was to finally get this one yesterday morning. I really like this takeoff posture. A little better eye contact would have been nice but I’m not complaining.<\/p>\n

Takeoff shots of warblers are unusually difficult to get because they’re so damn fast. Generally the smaller the bird the faster they are and warblers are smaller than most songbirds. Of the two warblers I photograph most often, Yellow-rumped Warblers and Yellow Warblers, Yellow Warblers are the smallest (thus the fastest) so it’s a little ironic that the species I finally succeeded with was this one.<\/p>\n

An additional difficulty is their preferred dense, brushy habitat. As they take off there’s usually vegetation in front of them or so close behind them that it ruins the photo so in this shot I was lucky to get a setting that was unusually clean for a warbler.<\/p>\n

And that brushy habitat often reduces the light they’re in so it can be very difficult to get enough shutter speed to get them sharp at takeoff. I’m convinced that warblers require a SS of 1\/3200 at a bare minimum.<\/p>\n

Did anyone notice anything unusual about this bird?<\/p>\n

Look at the base of its right foot. There appears to be a swelling down there of unusual color and the color of the leg also seems strange to me (I don’t think it’s just reflected highlights).<\/p>\n

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A huge crop of the same image (5% of the original photo) shows us a little more detail, even though the feet are pretty soft in part due to depth of field issues.<\/p>\n

I have to wonder if it might be avian pox.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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PS – I have bad news, devastating news for me. I had two (yes two!) computers die on me this morning, my primary computer and a backup. I’m having to publish this post on my far-from-adequate laptop. If I hadn’t saved these two images to Word Press last night I probably wouldn’t have been able to post this morning.<\/em><\/p>\n

So I may be offline for a few days until I can get the issue resolved, one way or another.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shit happens…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Addendum at 6:48 AM: <\/em><\/p>\n

Mia saved the day! She suggested my computer problem might be because it needed to be cleaned out and she was right. After some big blasts from my air compressor in my garage (my 3 cans of canned air were all nearly empty) my primary computer booted up just fine. I’m using it now. Man, was, it ever dirty in there.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

May I suggest that we all keep the guts of our computers clean. If the fans don’t cool adequately computers often won’t boot up.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mia rocks!<\/em><\/p>\n

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A shot like this has been one of the most difficult for me to get.<\/p>\n

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